Help Do you believe that antidepressants help?

[Eternity]

How horrible. I take sertraline and have had no side effects.

Oh that's nice! I read earlier you feel better since taking them? :)

Yes. I had an allergic reaction to one of them, and a different one gave me a scary arrhythmia, so I had to discontinue taking it.

That sounds horrible. How did you know you were allergic? Skin rash or something?

 

[Cathy Ames]

I'm thinking about starting mirtazapine, but the goal for me is to improve sleep quality and duration.
I don't even mind if it doesn't work for depression, as long as my sleep is significantly improved. I also don't mind if I gain weight or feel fatiqued during the day.

did you go all the way up the maximum dose of 45mg?

was mirt lossing its effect regarding your sleep too? was your sleep starting to get worse with time, or in other words, was your body building tolerance to the "part of mirt" that improved sleep?

I'm sorry to bother you, I'm very thankful if you can help!

my appointment is next week and the doctor is very cool, he literally gives me any drug that I ask him. like most psychiatrists, he looks more like a drug-dealer than like an actual doctor lol. I'm split between mirtazapine and doxepin 6mg. the latter is a mild sleep aid with almost zero side effects, something that I'd keep at home to only use rarely, just when my C-PTSD is triggered and I really need some extra sedation to make through a night and rest.

I had a similar experience like you described, but it was with amitriptyline and it took more than 3 years for my body to develop significant tolerance to it.

after trying many things, I feel like most drugs that improve sleep tend to become weaker overtime or even to stop working - which could be a sign in my opinion: it could be destiny pushing us towards more natural solutions…

In my experience, mirtazapine taken at bed time worked fantastic for falling asleep. I can't speak to sleep "quality," though. For me, when it pooped out as an antidepressant it DID still work well for falling asleep. Taking that drug, I also had a large and rapid weight gain that took forever to get back off again.

That sounds horrible. How did you know you were allergic? Skin rash or something?

Yes. It was miserable, and the timing was such that it was unclear what was causing it, so I didn't stop the drug right away.

 

[Niko66]

I believe they have as much if not more potential for damage as they have for help which was my experience. I hate them, people advice you to get on them, doctors hand then out freely yet none acknowledged the bleak reality of the consequences that some of us suffer from them. Perhaps they save more lives than they destroy, but they most certainly destroy some lives and for that I will forever resent the condescending medical professionals who refuse to give you the whole picture. It's a Russian roulette sold in society as an elixir.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I know that they won't help me. I can't even keep up my diabetes medicine consistently and antidepressants are far more likely to make me do an impulsive suicide rather than a planned one.

Any benefits they have will be outweighed by their side effects which always tend to happen for me. Guess I'm just lucky like that.

 

[onlyanimalsaregood]

Oh that's nice! I read earlier you feel better since taking them? :)


That sounds horrible. How did you know you were allergic? Skin rash or something?

Yes I genuinely feel that they are helping me

 

[Johnhawk_Down]

You'd be better off taking a sugar pill.

Yeah, at least it would taste sweet and will pep you up for about the minute. Try sucking on a antidepressant .