What's the harm in adding a 4th? Well it depends. Could kill you depending what it is. Your post just makes me think you are very young and still have that invisible feeling where nothing could hurt you, or oh that won't happen to me, etc. I had it until my mid to late 20s
Well, that’s very flattering (?), but I’m in my 50’s and quite aware of my mortality, especially lying here 12 hours post hernia repair. A determined 10 year old could take me out.
The post was perhaps a bit too tongue-in-cheek. Plainer version: psych meds may indeed have some value in managing side effects of AAS. People in this community (not me!) take some very powerful unprescribed psych meds already to manage physical sides (e.g., hyperprolactinemia). If you read what I wrote, it is very much not singing the praises of those meds.
It goes without saying — though I did allude to it — that preventing a side effect is always better than medicating it. That said, I know that many, many people here do experience some sides from AAS use, and most of them do take some supplements or medications to manage them. Nobody is giving up AAS at their first side effects. That’s just not representative of the risk tolerance of any AAS user, by definition. So it’s about where one draws the line.
Bupropion by itself isn’t going to kill anybody if they stay within the established safe dose range. At extremely high dosages of 600+ mg/day they would have increased risk of seizures. Very few antidepressants come with acute risk of death when used in the established therapeutic dose range. That’s why they hand them out like candy. Hell, they give out bupropion for weight loss, too
Sudden, unmanaged depression
does kill people, though. Altered mental states can ruin lives. “Divorce in a bottle”. Anxiety is a crippling condition. Or to get back to this poster’s extracurriculars: would it be better for him to take cocaine + adderall, or something much safer for stimulatory effects, like modafinil or bupropion? The easy answer is “don’t do any of that because it all comes with risk”, but then none of us would be here at all.
Another example: a large number of people talk about taking tren and suffering the rather deleterious mental sides that come with it. Not just once, but over and over. They do not simply avoid tren as, to them, there is no substitute. If there is a way to prevent or reduce those sides at minimal risk, that would be a net harm reduction. I’m not saying there necessarily is, but I’ve read of several people already on psych meds saying they seem to be insulated from mental sides from nandrolone, for example. Similar experiences to mine. The N is very small, obviously. Maybe depressive/anxious people are immune, or maybe the meds are beneficial, or maybe it’s all just coincidence. Worth keeping in mind, though.