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If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 days ago (17 children)

Dopamine does a lot of things. It does not cross the blood-brain barrier.

So taking this would be all side effects and no benefits

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (12 children)

So taking this would be all side effects and no benefits

So it's basically the same as Prozac? 😩

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (9 children)

If you have depression anxiety and find that Prozac (an ssri) doesnt work well, you might consider something that directly works on dopamine - like Buproprion (brand name = wellbutrin, a NDRI, norepinephrine dopamine reuptake inhibitor).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was a bit of not interested and not educated enough to know what a NDRI was while I was on it but it does make sense for ADHD and Depression symptoms.

The withdrawal from Wellbutrin was bad. I got brain zaps if I was 1hr late taking it; tapering and cessation was miserable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I have gone off a few times over the years and didn't experience many side effects/withdrawals, but that is definitely not always the case - I've heard that it reeeaaally does not work for some people. Ymmv

Similar to your comment about ADHD, I feel like it helps me with some of my autism symptoms ("low support needs"/aspergers)

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