Pearl - SSRIs Are Driving Women CRAZY

00:00:00.000 dating is so hard for everyone and i just know for a fact that if i was not medicated right now

00:00:05.200 i would probably still be participating in those really self-harming thought patterns because those

00:00:11.200 oh my god we accountability and poor results turn to self-harming thought we are just so spoiled

00:00:18.320 it's incredible what's up guys welcome to my reaction series so today we're reacting to modern 0.99

00:00:24.080 women being on lexapro so women um in my opinion always just do the laziest thing imaginable just 0.99

00:00:30.460 in my experience with women we don't like doing things we love being lazy and doing nothing so 1.00

00:00:34.580 when it comes to mental health a lot of people think you know women's mental health is this

00:00:39.460 terrible thing and like you know blah blah blah and to me it's more that women um again we just

00:00:47.400 do the laziest thing available possible. So if it comes to, you know, working out and, you know, 0.97

00:00:54.540 meditating and doing stuff like that, we would rather just take a pill. So I don't see antidepressants

00:00:59.300 as this increase in women being nuts. I think women have always been nuts. So let's see what 1.00

00:01:04.220 this lady on SSRI is saying. I love being on an SSRI because it has made me so ruthless with men

00:01:10.840 when it comes to dealing with them and dating and relationships and i love who my ssri has made me

00:01:19.160 become for reference i'm taking fluoxetine also known as prozac i've been taking it for about

00:01:24.440 seven months now for rumination ocd and before i was medicated my ocd would quite literally take

00:01:32.120 over my mind in the area of relationships specifically this made dating extremely

00:01:37.320 difficult for me to the point where i would get so attached to anybody that gave me an ounce of

00:01:43.320 attention that i had any sort of connection with i would take it so personally every single time

00:01:48.920 something didn't work out with someone so much so to the point where i would take full accountability

00:01:53.640 every single time something didn't work out even if it was completely the other person's fault for 0.97

00:01:58.680 why it didn't work out because i was so dead set yeah women uh see do you notice how like the one 0.98

00:02:05.480 time she took accountability she circumvented and found a way to not take accountability to now blame 0.91

00:02:10.760 her mental health or whatever that i'm trying to find an answer as to why things weren't working

00:02:15.960 out and so my rumination episodes would look like me trying to go through every single scenario of

00:02:22.360 what could have went wrong what i could have said differently what i could have done differently

00:02:26.120 to try to get the result that i wanted which was a committed relationship and i'm not exaggerating

00:02:30.920 when i say my mentality with this has shifted tenfold since starting prozac my cutoff game is

00:02:37.700 so strong now i don't even care if a guy talks now she's taking drugs and she's gonna be more

00:02:44.580 picky that's incredible that's incredible me anymore because i'm just like okay well you gotta

00:02:50.640 show me that you're actually interested in me like there's so many other things that we need

00:02:54.600 to figure out before i get any sort of attached to you if a guy says something that i don't like 1.00

00:03:00.420 or if he disrespects me in any sense i will call him that's again women get older boundaries get 0.85

00:03:05.200 higher where there's things that we would have laughed off when we were young out on it because

00:03:09.380 before i used to now you need to call him out on it that's amazing that person that would keep all

00:03:13.880 of my feelings to myself because i was afraid of ruining things and i was afraid that they would

00:03:17.860 abandon me if i said something that they didn't like which now i'm realizing like if someone's

00:03:22.020 gonna walk away from me speaking my mind then that's not my person at all so i literally just

00:03:26.760 tell men how it is now i don't care what they're gonna say back to me because it's like why are

00:03:33.640 you not treating me with respect to begin with which is something that i used to let slide all

00:03:37.920 the time in previous years before i was medicated i would be such a doormat i would let men walk all

00:03:43.080 over me again because i was so afraid that if i made any sort of mistake that they were gonna

00:03:48.800 leave me and by doing that i was just perpetuating the issue of them thinking that they could walk

00:03:54.280 all over me that they could disrespect me i was subconsciously teaching them how to treat me and

00:03:59.720 so now again i really do think it's because of the medication i no longer ruminate about the

00:04:05.560 what could have been i no longer put the whole idea of potential on a pedestal i'm just able to

00:04:12.120 view things as they are and i take people in situations at face value depending on the situation

00:04:17.720 i may give somebody a second chance but it's not very often anymore that i do that but just in

00:04:23.080 in general now the way that my mind is no longer consumed with thoughts about not being in a

00:04:27.860 relationship being single dating all of these things feels like such a weight off my shoulders

00:04:33.240 and honestly it feels like that's the thing see she could work harder to find a boyfriend if 0.99

00:04:38.260 that's what was causing the anxiety and like fix whatever the problem was or she could take drugs 1.00

00:04:43.120 that's why i don't think it's that the women are that different and like mentally ill than the past 0.91

00:04:47.660 i think we just make we have the choice to make more poor choices and we do which catch up to us 0.95

00:04:52.360 later and also we have the opportunity to be lazier than ever and we're going to pick that

00:04:57.200 every single time my mind is so clear now because before i was medicated i literally would cry about

00:05:03.320 this daily if not daily then it would be at least every couple days like i would find something to

00:05:09.180 ruminate about that had something to do with the reason why i was single why i had never been in a

00:05:13.860 relationship and it would eat me alive like it would put me into a deep depression and now that

00:05:19.220 my mind is actually filled with thoughts that serve me and i spend my time doing so many

00:05:25.360 different things that i wasn't doing before because i now have the energy and i'm no longer

00:05:29.240 stressed because those ruminating thoughts are no longer there is night and day difference like i

00:05:34.900 was so convinced that something was fundamentally wrong with me because relationships were so

00:05:39.960 difficult but now i mean something probably was and is wrong with you but now you just instead

00:05:44.200 of fixing it you just you know put yourself on medication realizing like dating is so hard for

00:05:49.040 everyone and i just know for a fact that if i was not medicated right now i would probably still be

00:05:54.360 participating in those really self-harming thought patterns because those oh my god we accountability

00:06:01.340 and poor results turn to self-harming thought we are just so spoiled it's incredible what's up guys

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00:07:22.560 patterns were just completely eating myself forth the way right i'm going to the next one

00:07:27.680 i'm going to the next one bro like two weeks ago and i don't know i i feel like i have no

00:07:34.000 personality anymore is this normal like will this wear off obviously i'm going to talk to my doctor

00:07:38.240 but i've been coming to y'all for medical advice for quite a while now um and everybody you're going

00:07:43.920 to tick tock for medical advice okay you deserve what you get to be you're always just so helpful

00:07:48.800 is this normal i know people say like wait a month three months women will just eat each other i just

00:07:55.440 feel like i'm not even making myself laugh internally that's so off i'm probably think

00:08:01.440 the only person that ever laughs at my jokes and i'm not even laughing at my jokes so something's

00:08:05.920 wrong it's not wrong and obviously i know that could be right maybe you're not that funny you

00:08:09.840 know gonna be different for a while while my body adjusts but um what y'all's flex pro experience

00:08:15.200 like please i've literally never taken an ssri i just did it because i had cancer and i literally

00:08:21.520 could not cope i will say i don't feel as shit like i felt so awful for the first week and a 0.63

00:08:27.900 half ish i mean like within the past two days i don't feel that shit i'm able to you know get up 0.54

00:08:32.560 and do things and be productive and not be dead to the world but is this normal to feel a little

00:08:38.020 like yeah i mean that's kind of what they do they dull your light or whatever which is great for the

00:08:42.960 rest of us uh you know if any of you guys have women on ssris do they ever get less annoying

00:08:48.180 like how does it let me know really oh hey um yeah i'm fine how's your turtle doing i saw you

00:08:54.520 post that she was sick oh yes yeah um she died what yeah yeah last week oh oh my god are you 0.72

00:09:02.360 okay i know you like that was like your best friend yeah no it was awful it really sucked

00:09:07.700 well i'm so sorry you you're holding it together really well yeah add sweating profusely to this 0.93

00:09:14.680 i'm on a hundred milligrams of cetra lane you have about five minutes of me giving a fuck about 0.74

00:09:20.140 something until my meds are like nah you good i mean at least you have work right like to distract 0.70

00:09:24.680 you i guess keep you busy oh no i got fired when yeah i was dealing with the whole turtle thing

00:09:30.400 you know so i was calling out and then they just oh my god that's awful no yeah it was pretty

00:09:37.620 awful yeah you have to do something that we have to like sue them that's illegal no i actually

00:09:42.580 don't think it is well what did sam do when you told them oh uh yeah no sam and i broke up yeah

00:09:47.540 no they broke up with me you were telling me your turtle died you lost your job and you got broken

00:09:51.980 up with in the same week yeah it's been a rough one how are you still standing

00:09:56.500 yeah yeah that'd be kind of nice to not have the women crash out all right let's see 1.00

00:10:06.220 It's going to heat up. 1.00

00:10:07.040 Taking SSRIs is someone who fought it for 10 years.

00:10:09.760 Leftovers and I thought I would tell you about my experience going on medication for the first time.

00:10:15.080 First few days, I felt like I was on a microdose of Molly or something.

00:10:20.420 I was so insanely elated and calm and happy that it was kind of bizarre.

00:10:24.300 And my brain got really quiet, almost too quiet.

00:10:28.620 But I was like a little freaked out by it.

00:10:30.940 And I was really hoping my thoughts would come back.

00:10:33.020 weeks following i was exhausted and probably more depressed than i had been before so i was a little

00:10:39.440 concerned about it but i knew that that was just something i had to kind of power through a lot of

00:10:44.100 people said that it gave them insomnia so i was taking the morning it made me really tired instead

00:10:48.860 so i started taking it at night and now i sleep like a baby best thing that's happened is i saw

00:10:53.160 someone else talk about this and this is the perfect way to explain it it feels like nothing

00:10:57.280 because all of a sudden things just aren't extreme anymore my highs and lows were kind of ruining my

00:11:02.440 life not in like a manic way but in like a if i would get sad that could drag me into a hole of

00:11:09.720 sadness for two or three weeks that would be so difficult to crawl out of when i was happy it was

00:11:15.180 the happiest i had ever been and everything was so bright and beautiful and when i came down from

00:11:20.620 that it was so disappointing i'm a huge feeler i'm a huge emotional person like you sound insufferable

00:11:25.960 yeah i like to feel everything in the world i remember when i first started taking ssris the

00:11:30.600 moment where i thought i was gonna have a panic attack i was about to have one and then a blanket

00:11:33.780 of calm rushed over me and disappeared so intensely and i'm on the lowest possible dose 0.99

00:11:39.300 i think it's just women being brats i think all of this is women being spoiled they you know they 0.99

00:11:44.800 never got told no their whole life and now they hear no and it's a crash out so i still feel 1.00

00:11:50.940 things really intensely they just don't control me anymore and i'm able to take my emotions and

00:11:57.120 hold them for a second instead of acting on them right away and that's what was ruining my life

00:12:00.960 my emotions controlled every part of me now i get sad and i can wake up tomorrow and it's a new day

00:12:06.800 also the biggest thing for me has been i don't hate myself anymore

00:12:13.920 will you like maybe you should hate yourself why don't we always act like hating ourselves is a bad

00:12:18.480 thing like why is that a bad thing you know um sometimes it's good to hate yourself a little bit

00:12:28.240 there too when it was finally kicking in started bawling in my car because my brain was so used to

00:12:34.000 like coming up with reasons that i hate myself and thinking about them and i couldn't think of

00:12:39.200 any yeah all right guys yeah i mean and if i all right well this is what's the dating market a lot 0.58

00:12:46.080 lot of antidepressants stds and um bitchy women so anyways all right i love you guys thank you

00:12:53.600 for watching like the video and subscribe um i guess i'll see you next time 0.98

Pearl - August 21, 2026

SSRIs Are Driving Women CRAZY

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