Help help w antidepressants

[5_5]

hey english isnt my native language so sorry if this is weirdly written but i need help with this

tldr; are antidepressants worth it? what is your experience and do you think i should go through the trouble of starting to take them based on my situation? are there any quirks about them i should know?

i turned 20 recently and during this time i have realized that i might need antidepressants. i usted to survive well before because i didn't have any responsibilities, but now that i'm an adult i have to function normally and i can't.

i can do things but everything feels extremely difficult, i don't feel like doing anything ever unless im told to/invited to by my friends. im an only child, i spent pretty much all my life alone so now i have this constant dark cloud above my head unless im with them (my 2 girlfriends) or i do drugs. i started hating my own home. i hate everything that is related to me: the decisions i make, my thoughts, my own family, i have no self worth whatsoever. and everything that is alien to me i admire and strive for. feeling like this is so tiring and i constantly feel like a burden. and at the same time i sabotage myself by thinking i'm overreacting to the very common and obvious changes in my life and that it's normal to feel lost. and it might be but not to this extent i think. i dont see how suffering this much and thinking the things that i think and feeling the way that i feel is normal. i need help

thank you for reading

if antidepressants dont work i guess its over. but i trust they will

 

[Kayla]

Antidepressants can certainly help. You might as well give it a go. Just be warned, you might feel worse before you feel better with antidepressants. I've been on citalopram for over a year, and it's helped me a lot.

 

[lanadelreyisgod223]

i'd say yes they're worth it and can definitely help a lot. you can trial and error with a lot of them until you find the right ones for you, and now there are also ketamine treatments that are beneficial in cases of extremely treatment resistant depression. one thing i will say is absolutely DO NOT try to overdose on any SSRI or any of that. also be careful that some medications like zoloft can actually make you suicidal + give you manic episodes if you have a mood disorder.

 

[5_5]

Antidepressants can certainly help. You might as well give it a go. Just be warned, you might feel worse before you feel better with antidepressants. I've been on citalopram for over a year, and it's helped me a lot.

thank you so much! hopefully i get lucky too

i'd say yes they're worth it and can definitely help a lot. you can trial and error with a lot of them until you find the right ones for you, and now there are also ketamine treatments that are beneficial in cases of extremely treatment resistant depression. one thing i will say is absolutely DO NOT try to overdose on any SSRI or any of that. also be careful that some medications like zoloft can actually make you suicidal + give you manic episodes if you have a mood disorder.

noted. thanks! lana del rey is god

 

[mimimisaki]

Unfortunately I haven't managed to find the proper combo for me yet, but I know from ppl very close to me that once you do find it, antidepressants can make quite a big difference! Anyway, I do think it's definitely worth a try.