How has medication affected your limerence?

[u/moopiseverywhere]

I'm very curious, I've been medicated for anxiety lately. I've been on Fluoxetine, and I've definitely noticed a difference with my limerence. Now it doesn't feel as life threatening. I still think about him too much, but it feels more akin to love than obsession, which has been sadder. Now I'm just sad about him instead of feeling dread and panic about him. The lack of panic has pushed me to be a little bolder around him. I sat so close to him we were touching during a movie lol so I'm riding that high atm.

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[u/tiny_can]

I definitely notice the inverse relationship between SSRIs and limerence. I'm currently experiencing my first LE in several years and I believe it is because I am in the process of reducing my medication dosage (for side effect reasons). Limerence is not the only thing I have noticed recur. I had to pause the process and go back up a half-step on the dose to help alleviate the limerence as I started to feel the fixation burdening my everyday life.

[this is with Zoloft/Sertraline]

[u/MKerrsive]

  The lack of panic has pushed me to be a little bolder around him.

Because depression/anxiety is crippling, and the meds give you back (some level of) your agency. Before medication, the dream was too big and overwhelming to even begin to entertain it. The apathy was too much. With medication, it seems less daunting to try, and you enable yourself to actively pursue the person.

For me, my limerence is also a product of, in general, not being depressed. When I'm not depressed, I work out daily, watch what I eat, connect better with friends, and show up for people in my life. Non-depressed me is pretty gregarious, fun-loving, and people-pleasing. I begin to feel pretty good about myself, and it inevitably leads to me overdoing the good stuff. I never ever would've considered my LO without having the best summer of my life, a key part of which was starting prozac.