Die Gabe eines gängigen Antidepressivums an Männer könnte zur Bekämpfung häuslicher Gewalt beitragen: weltweit erste Studie

“So our study evolved to include a comprehensive support model, combining pharmacotherapy with trauma-informed clinical counselling, proactively following up participants, 24-hour crisis support, helping the men navigate support services and partner safety planning.” So there’s no way to know whether the results were from the counseling or from the drugs.

Also, let’s remember that you shouldn’t assume that domestic violence is mostly committed by men: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-psychiatrist/article/domestic-violence-is-most-commonly-reciprocal/C5432B0C6F8F61B49A4E2B60B931FA07

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>When we help men address the psychological, relational and social factors that drive their domestic violence, we’ve shown we can prevent harm before it occurs.

The sooner we realize violence is largely reflective of mental health and wellness, the sooner we can reduce violence.

Instead we offer men conflicting incentives where they’re allowed and even encouraged to beat up other men with impunity and never allowed to hurt others, such as women, and we expect men to control their lizard brains in these split section moments. Knowing which demographics you’re allowed to hurt is a cognitive decision, reacting with violence is an emotional decision. There’s an incongruencey in how those two decisions are made.

Just look at police officers. We give them all the leeway to act with violence the moment someone doesn’t want to hand over an ID, and they do that 50 hours a week for a few years and somehow when their partner is perceived as being difficult they’re supposed to resolve conflict entirely differently than how they normally do most of their day. Then the tools, like therapy, to discern and moderate these decisions are even discouraged, costly, and can risk people their jobs. And the man being the breadwinner is still a role both men and women overwhelming believe a man should fulfill.

Give anyone, man or woman, a role where conflict resolution is allowed and encouraged with violence and I suspect you’ll see a causal relationship to domestic violence.

None of this excuses domestic violence, I am only speculating on macro causes and influences. I hope to see more studies reaffirm that happy men who have their material needs and wants being met are less violent than poor unhappy men.

Anecdotal but my abusive ex girlfriend stopped being physically abusive once she took seraltrine

The other eye opening thing is that male violence can be built up by depression/ anxiety which tells me that a lot of our knee-jerk ideas on how to handle it, overall, are very wrong.

The 1950 called. They want their solution back

Used Sertaline for a year, great stuff with minimal effects. However, it had the opposite effect on my sexual libido and sent it through the roof! After 1 year I also had a little brain fog. But in all, it just makes you feel super chilled with life.

Careful with the dosage though, don’t do what I did and double your dose from 50mg to 100mg for 2 weeks because you needed to handle extra work stress while prepping for the CEO site visit. I didnt taper on or taper off the dosage I just changed doses immediately……….I was bed ridden for 3 days and literally could not wake up, I just slept the 3 days away.

And yes, Im an idiot.

Bro. Zoloft is f****** amazing.

„when we chemically castrate men, they show less anger“

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Not surprised at all. It brought down my anger quite a bit. But a good nutritional diet does even more for me in that regard

Or- how about they exercise