I’m performing a really informal survey / study on antidepressants and athletics. If anyone out there has started (or stopped) taking an antidepressant while training, I would like to know if you noticed any athletic-related effects.
Please provide the name(s) of the drug you started or stopped, its method of action (SSRI, NRI, MAOI, etc.) and the effects you noticed.
Thanks a lot!
I’m performing a really informal survey / study on antidepressants and athletics. If anyone out there has started (or stopped) taking an antidepressant while training, I would like to know if you noticed any athletic-related effects.
Please provide the name(s) of the drug you started or stopped, its method of action (SSRI, NRI, MAOI, etc.) and the effects you noticed.
Thanks a lot!
I dunno, can we trust someone named “anthrax”? 
Sounds like it could be an interesting study, is this for a personal interest, or along the lines of performance enhancement/impact?
Mostly just for personal interest, but it’s definitely something that could be expanded into something larger (I think one of my former professors might be interested in something like this). I certainly have a personal investment in this, as I just switched from an SSRI to an NDRI and have been noticing some changes in my training. However, because the switch was recent, it may have nothing to do with that; could just be a little overtraining, or trouble with the heat, or something unrelated.
More than anything else, I’m trying to determine if any certain type of med has more effects than others, or if some have different effects than others. I think it’s something that could be of use to people when they’re starting treatment, as it could help them to determine which meds they want to go on first (while the doctor’s opinion is important as well, my experience has been that they’re very open to suggestion as to which med to prescribe, as it’s difficult to know how any of them affect the patient).
If anyone is interested in letting me know their experiences, but isn’t cool with posting on such a large forum, please feel free to send me a message. I won’t be sharing any names or specifics with anyone (if this goes further into a full-fledged study, I’ll have to start the statistics over anyway).
And it’s DANNthrax, not Anthrax. How is that not a trustworthy-sounding name? 
There are likely to be a few studies on the subject already available.
There is anecdotal evidence from top athletes who have commented that symptoms they experienced when training very very hard - burnout, lethergy, mental fatigue were all vastly improved when taking antidepressants. Salazar comments in the book ‘Dual in The Sun’ that it saved his career, and he equates overtraining fatigue with depression.
It’s hardly a suprise when you think how important motivation and mental strength are in professional sports - training and racing. It’s usually the desire to be the best that goes before physical decline.