didn’t just puff up like Violet in a chocolate factory

I’m sure you didn’t. I don’t doubt that the meds contributed somewhat, but there’s just no evidence that these agents can cause a weight gain of that magnitude on their own. Even the individual uncontrolled longitudinal studies that show the highest amounts of weight gain demonstrate at most 5-8kg increase.

There is no way that amount of weight gain was caused by an sri. Maybe you were on something else like an atypical/tricyclic antidepressant? Or maybe you were just depressed?

Mirtazapine is an appetite stimulant. They give it to old people a lot so they eat and sleep better. Happy it works for you though

Unfortunately it’s pretty hard to tease these things apart because depression itself causes weight gain and there are medication adherence issues especially with longer term studies, but the most well-controlled data suggests that sris don’t play much of a role in weight gain for most people

Yeah other meds are different. I assumed OOP was referring to sris because of the cum thing

It’s true that differences between how individuals react to sris is pretty large and that <0.5kg number is a population wide average

Almost any time you see “University Does X” in a headline, replace “university” with the name of the president board of trustees.

President is just a PR and day to day operations person typically, there to catch flak from students with no real power.

Tbf the weight gain attributable to sris is tiny, like 0.5 kg over 6 months at most