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How do you feel on your depression meds?
Question : How do you feel on your depression meds?
I am terribly depressed. I am going on depression meds next week..
How differently do they make you feel????
And whats the best kind would you say?
depression meds
Best answer:
Answer by The Fred
Drugs are not the answer! Just say no.
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#2 written by Cue 1 year ago
STOP
Please think long and hard about taking depression medication. Depression is very common throughout the world. Some worse than others, but common nonetheless.
You need to weigh your options very carefully here.
Depression meds. will hopefully make you feel better daily, but the mental and physical side affects are very dangerous and just stupid to take on for yourself. You WILL become dependant on them. Addiction is serious, and it seriously sucks. You DONT want to have to ween off an addictive anti-depressant.
Unless you are on the verge of killing yourself or feel absolutely terrible day in and day out, please don’t take them.
If you’re just feeling down lately — I feel ya. I’ve been down for the past 2 years since I moved away from the state I was raised in. It’s not easy, nothing’s easy. But at the end of the day I can still look myself in the mirror and say that I’m an alright guy. Be true to yourself and stay natural. Keep your chin up and crack a smile every now and then. Life isn’t so bad.
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#3 written by Naomi T 1 year ago
Well, I’m no doctor. I was on a few different meds for depression. The worst was paxel. The best was lexipro. They don’t make you feel weird. They make it so that when things happen that would normally make you want to cry. You don’t. It’s like a constant feeling of everything will be okay in the end. Not constantly happy but, constantly at ease. For instance, someone doesn’t like you, its okay there are millions of fish in the sea. You spill your soda, that’s okay, I can always get more. You’re happy just being yourself.
However, those warnings about not quiting on your own are very true. You can really make yourself crazy if you just stop taking them. I did and had horrible panic attacks. Just be ready to take them for a while.
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#4 written by caw0059 1 year ago
They take away extreme feelings, which is kind of good and bad in my experience, but it’s more good than bad, so in the end, it is good. You understand? You can look at your current ability to experience a range of emotions from very pleasant feeling, to feeling very down. What the meds will do is bring that range in to a tighter area, so you can’t feel as bad, but unfortunately you won’t be able to experience quite the same emotional highs that you experienced before. Like I said, it is nice to not feel suicidal due to taking them, but I used to get tired of feeling a little “emotionless”. All in all, they are good for a time, but your body will build a tolerance to whatever you take after time, and you will have to increase dosage, change meds, or just get off of them for a while to deal with life on your own. I would stay away from Lexapro although it is some of the fastest acting great stuff. The reason is because of the chemical dependency you will acquire on the stuff. Paxil (fluoxetine?) is a good middle of the road one. Slower to take effect than Lex, but when you stop taking it the withdrawal is much milder. Anyway, good luck with the anti-depressants, but remember that most psychs are not interested in healing you. They just want to keep treating your symptoms so they will have a repeat patient. After your on the meds a while think about the source of the depression for you. Religion was a big factor for my depression, and when I kicked it that helped a lot. Anyway, feel free to contact me for more advice anytime if you want.
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#7 written by Do You Have The Funk? 1 year ago
they made me feel hollow. like there was nothing inside of me, no joy, no sorrow, nothing. That’s when I self treated. Not with drugs, but with walking. Everyday I took out 20 mins just to go for a walk, most of it was before bed. At first I thought about what depressed me, then after I realised those things shouldn’t depress me(like most things that depress people) I started feeling a whole let better. After 2 weeks I was the happiest I’ve been in a long time. So before you go on them next week, start walking everyday for as long as you feel necessary. It will help.
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I’m sorry to say that our answers are really not going to help you.
Everyone feels differently on every different kind of medication. You might find one that works right away, or you might have to try five before you find one.
Here’s my rundown: Prozac made me angry, Lexapro did nothing (except give me restless leg syndrome), Seroquel put me to sleep but otherwise worked well, and a combination of Trazodone and Cymbalta made me feel pretty normal.
Here’s the thing: that doesn’t matter to you AT ALL. Don’t even take into account what people are saying about how they feel on certain medications. You don’t want to start this experience out being biased. Take your pills regularly, and decide for yourself how you feel.
You will know you’ve found the right stuff when you have the ability to be happy and care about things, and are just yourself, without all the depressing thoughts.