Antidepressants

I heard only bad things about depressants. I have depression but I do not take such pills. I try to control my depression naturally. I know it's hard but I do not want to become addictive. If the depression is not too severe (my case I think) it can be diminished in time (I hope!) by finding out other solution to depression than antidepressants. I'm still searching...

Yes quit. I heard about people very close how it's addictive, it only gets worse and they have to take a greater amount. One took for more than a decade and was trembling. This person can't even sleep anymore.

Hi Porcospino, Please continue to take your antidepressants. Your depression will be much worse without them. I will keep you in my prayers. Have a great weekend!

I haven't been on antidepressants nearly as long as anyone who's shared before me. I started January of this year, so that's about 10 months. It was like a slow crawl back up from the deepest pit of despair. At first I didn't think the medicine was making any difference, but now that I've been on them the better part of a year I can see that it's helped tremendously. I had a weekend where my pills ran out and I was thinking to myself that it would be okay if I just waited until Monday to get it refilled. I had a total breakdown. I don't want to take antidepressants for the rest of my life, but my psychiatrist has told me it is possible that I may struggle with depression for the rest of my life, because depression does tend to be a long-term illness. I tell myself that for now, I'm going to take them every day. I hope that in the future I will be able to ween myself off of them, but I'll think about that in the future when I'm hopefully further along in my road to recovery.

antidepressant is also very harmful to the body. it have a function of addiction

I have a friend who takes those anti-depressant medicines regularly. She took it everytime she feels down. I know that it is therapeutic if prescribed by a doctor, in her case, she took the medicine over the counter on a friend's owned pharmacy. I hope she can see now a doctor becasue it may be detrimental to her for the effects of taking those medicines without any consultation. I hope you get well in time. Thanks

I was diagnozed with clinical depression back in 2002, was put on antidepressants different ones, all had severe side affects on me and put me off taking them and I refused point blank when after visiting doctors, pyschiatrists that was all they were prepared to offer me. I have been in an out of counseling and last June I finally broke down, I couldn't take it any more I asked for help, antidepressants, I was fortunate in that my GP found ones that suited me, however the side affects started to interfere with my day to day life and I was in bed more than I was up and about, I was on venlafaxine, then early this year I was switched to Mirtazapine and I have to say these work! No side affects or none that I notice and I feel so much better I am able to go to the gym 3 times a week and I can cope with life albeit I have to live for today, not tomorrow. I have asked the GP if I can be on them indefinitely and she said yes, I don't envisage coming off them, I don't want to, I know what life is like without them, even if I have to take them for the rest of my life that doesn't worry me. Life without antidepressants is a life of hell and one I don't want to live in. I am likely to self harm again if I came off them. They are my sanity in this cr*p world. Thank you for listening.

I also quit and it felt so bad like I was out of breathing and hell is dragging me down. I know I can do it before I was quitting and nothing happens until I ate back the meds where my mom told me, I suffer this. Now I rely on the meds so much that if I forgotten to eat them, I will eat back the next day. But what you can do is cut the meds smaller portion, if one tablet you can minimize it to quarter. This is what I do. I don't plan to quit my meds because it gives me good feeling, not depressed which makes me don't want to get on to do the things.

hi porcospino, Well I don't take anti depressants pills but I read that it has a bad effect in your health if you are taking it for a long time if you think you don't need it maybe you can stop taking it or consult your doctor. If you are depress try to look at the brighter side of your life happy mylotting

Don't quit antidepressants all a sudden. It can badly affect you in many ways. Just consult your physician to try out some easy way. You can start Yoga and move to such a place where you can feel more charming and happiness that can help you to decrease the doge percentage dramatically and slowly you may quit them.

Everybody had a depresion. It depends of each one how to overcome it. I didn't take antidepressants and I hope I don't need them. When I was in a deep depresion I try to make many things which distracting me. More, my friends help me very much. It's very dangerous to play with this kind of disease.