Séroplex
Séroplex, escitalopram, was the SSRI prescribed to Steven in September 2020 during the emergency turn out of lockdown depression. It is tied to the first documented recovery arc and the return of la flamme.
Prescription context
Steven consulted a doctor in September 2020 after reaching a threshold in the lockdown depression. The prescription was not part of long-term psychiatric follow-up. It came from a doctor he had just met, in an acute context.
He also stopped cigarettes the same Sunday. The first days combined SSRI side effects, nicotine withdrawal, insomnia, nausea, tremors, and anxiety.
Recovery marker
By September 23, 2020, ten days after beginning Séroplex, Steven wrote that it was working. The central sign was not only symptom relief but the return of “ma flamme.”
The medication is therefore linked to one of the clearest recovery declarations in the wiki: “IT’S WORKING, I’M WORKING.”
Discontinuation
During the Arthur relationship, Steven reduced and stopped Séroplex by self-assessment. He felt well and suspected that 3-MMC, which is serotonergic, could interact badly with the SSRI.
There was no medical oversight. The decision belongs to the Arthur-era mixture of recovery, social re-entry, substance use, and self-managed pharmacology.