Katie's story: 14 years after Prozac
Katie was prescribed Prozac at 21 and took it for 3 years. She has had the symptoms for about 14 years.
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Prescribed at 21, for a difficult time
Katie was prescribed fluoxetine (Prozac) at 21, during a difficult period in her life, and stayed on it for about three years.
She describes emotional blunting, sexual dysfunction, loss of attraction and an inability to form romantic connections. It took her a long time to see that these had started after she began taking SSRIs. She has now lived with them for about 14 years.
What Katie talks about
- What the condition has done to her relationships and her sexuality.
- The effect on her sense of who she is, and on her mental wellbeing.
- What she was, and was not, told before the drug was prescribed.
- The years she spent believing something was fundamentally wrong with her.
Katie lives with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD).
Thank you to Katie for telling this story. This interview was recorded by Moral Medicine, who have filmed more than ninety of these conversations.
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