thougts on antidepressants?

[meandthebirds]

this isn't a recovery post, i'm currently taking 100mg of sertraline per day and i still feel very hopeless. im just curious as to what everybody else's experience w antidepressants is like? but also if anybody has tried to overdose on them.

 

[CrestfallenMima]

Antidepressants never worked for me, even when I overdosed on them (prozac specifically) all I got was a minor headache.

 

[meandthebirds]

Antidepressants never worked for me, even when I overdosed on them (prozac specifically) all I got was a minor headache.

thank you for ur reply, mine aren't working either despite the increased dosage but oh well.

 

[suicidalloser]

i'm suicidal
not stupid

 

[nightshade00]

I have treatment resistant depression and haven't found a single medication that works for more than a year or two (and only 1 worked for that long). I've had good luck with meds for anxiety and other issues, but my depression remains untreated (at least, not being treated by anything that works).

 

[Pardoe84]

I am here because i took Cymbalta (Duloxetin) and i developed PSSD from it.

 

[loyalskateboard]

I've tried quite a few. Ironically, fluoxetine made me more suicidal

 

[nothingissacred]

currently on 262,5mg venlafaxin, but i came to realise that trying all these different meds was basically just an aliby to be left alone.
i guess there was some hope it would change something but in the end no medication can change a mindset i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Ernest1964]

I have tried several different antidepressants. Most had terrible sexual side effects, the damned thing wouldn't work. Now I have been on Effexor 150mg. and it has helped. If it hadn't helped I wouldn't be here right now.

 

[vitbar]

Venlafaxin/effexor. Seems to be helping.

 

[LittleJem]

thank you for ur reply, mine aren't working either despite the increased dosage but oh well.

you need to give it time - how long have you given it?

Mine are workknig for me (for the past four days) after about four weeks on lexapro and 8 weeks on wellbrutin. You are meant to give them twelve weeks.

If it doesn't work after twelve weeks then you switch. It's weird that one SSRI could work when another one doesn't - but that's just how it is.

e.g. for me vortioextine didn't work - I spent 3 months on it. But Prozac did work quite a bit. And at the moment lexapro is helping me.

If you are in a country where you can combine wijth wellbrutin then sertraline and wellbrutin is a combo. You can also buy wellbtrutin online in the UK which is what I'm doing. It's good for an energy boost.

good luck
also the max dose of sertraline to try is 200 mg.

do not overdose on ssri it won't work

 

[meandthebirds]

you need to give it time - how long have you given it?

Mine are workknig for me (for the past four days) after about four weeks on lexapro and 8 weeks on wellbrutin. You are meant to give them twelve weeks.

If it doesn't work after twelve weeks then you switch. It's weird that one SSRI could work when another one doesn't - but that's just how it is.

e.g. for me vortioextine didn't work - I spent 3 months on it. But Prozac did work quite a bit. And at the moment lexapro is helping me.

If you are in a country where you can combine wijth wellbrutin then sertraline and wellbrutin is a combo. You can also buy wellbtrutin online in the UK which is what I'm doing. It's good for an energy boost.

good luck
also the max dose of sertraline to try is 200 mg.

do not overdose on ssri it won't work

thank you, ive only taken the pills for about 3 months or so.. im guessing i need to wait longer. but part of me doesnt even want to get better? i asked if anybody had attempted overdose bc it would be a simple way out. but now i know that it wont work.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

i asked if anybody had attempted overdose

OD with those meds is unreliable, if you intend a lethal OD with antidepressants you need tricyclic antidepressants like amitriptyline.

 

[Dmoore3232]

You picked a good one.

 

[busybee]

My entirely family said I was not acting like myself. Personally I was just so very tired and slept nearly all day. Also I gained a shitton of weight. Stopped taking them.
I do still take amitriptylin but for pain. Makes me fall asleep easy at night too so that is neat. Still wouldn't say I am less depressed though.