I wonder if SSRI medications have any effect on Dark Night stages
Maybe I'm posting to a stale thread, but anyway. I'm on SSRI (20 mg citalopram per day) in order not to derail completely after some insight retreat damage.
Symptoms were appearing after clear A&P stage/event and remaining up to equanimity, where they lessen but not disappear, intensifying significantly when falling back. Psychosomatic tension in the head region, quickly moving, flashes of headache, intense mental pain forming a depressive state when the mind gets stuck under real live pressure as opposed to relative fluidity in mid intensity retreats. The whole thing goes for about 4 years now and becomes slowly less hell like.
In my case SSRI clearly reduces the experienced pain to a supportable size but also seems to block progress, furthermore the pain seems slowly to adjust to SSRI and finds way to ship around it. So I'm perhaps about to enter a vicous cycle and do my best to avoid that.
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