Posted by Caleb462 on May 8, 2003, at 22:04:43
In reply to is this dopamine factor the reason for. . » Caleb462, posted by bookgurl99 on May 8, 2003, at 17:21:34
> as soon as i stopped taking zoloft daily, i noticed that sweet foods no longer taste as _good._ is it possible that i was self-medicating for low dopamine with snickers?
Seems possible. Dopamine is the brain's "reward" chemical. So the momentary dopamine release you got from a snickers bar may have seemed more pleasurable on the Zoloft, since it was a rarer occurence. This is of course, just a guess, and it could also work the other way around (i.e. snickers being less pleasurable on zoloft since the reward signals are being inhibited). I think most anti-depressants have a possible "taste perversion" side effect, this could also be a factor.
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