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Why don't they just prescribe this instead of stuff that doesn't help and also breaks your penis? ๐ฌ
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
Just inject it straight into your brain
I'm going to try it.
Edit: smmmfrrrr grreendch ferrrmenspolendllllllllll
This made me laugh way more than it should have rofl
So it's basically the same as Prozac? ๐ฉ
I realize this isn't serious but holy shit Prozac might have saved my life. Well, technically Prizma which is the same stuff. I went through so many unsuccessful depression treatments, Prizma is the only one that seems to be sticking. Sometimes the old stuff is just the best.
Worth noting that all treatments were in conjunction with psychotherapy, I don't think pills alone would have helped. And I also tried going without medication at all for a while, it wasn't good either. Prizma really is the only thing that works for me.
Edit: apparently the Prizma brand might only be sold in my country, but as I said it's just a different brand of Prozac.
You say the old stuff but fluoxetine was released in 1986 and citalopram in 1989 - before that you were boned. A few antidepressants existed and they were even worse than what we have today.
Maybe they can offer a two for one deal with lobotomy?
They remove the "problematic" part and install a new, dopamine rich part.
From Wikipedia on dopamine:
So it is a neurotransmitter but has many different functions as such. But also:
So dopamine is important for all kinds of cells to function correctly. So just chugging a bunch of dopamine would do all kinds of stuff to your body...
I might be misremembering, but AFAIK, dopamine can't cross the blood-brain-barrier, so even where you want to regulate dopamine (and not, e.g. serotonin like more commonly for depression) in the brain, you have to do so via different medication (e.g. amphetamine derivatives for ADHD or dopamine agonists for Parkinson's).
Just inject it directly into the brain smh