anti-depressant that has or is working for you?

Question

prescribed, herbal, excercise im open all suggestions. Have tried zoloft, paroxetine(paxal), efexor(bad reaction), the newest one was pristique used this for 2 weeks and developed constant headaches once the chemical built up in my system. Have long history of drug and alcohol abuse, now am just on heroin and morphine. Oh and used epilem which is epilepsy meds but can be used for mood stabilizer this was actually ok but really didnt help a great deal. thanks.

Answer 1

I went 12 years with unremitting depression from head injury. Finally, Wellbutrin worked for me in 1992. Eventually, it faded and I began having to try other ones. Eventually Cymbalta worked. I've been on it since then and really have not had any depression.



My depression is completely chemical--having been brought on from a serious head injury. I can still get down over life events which would bring anyone down, but I bounce back from those. If I were to stop taking my medication, the chemical imbalance from my head injury would return and I would become seriously depressed again.



I believe my case is strong evidence for showing depression is a chemical imbalance and not just caused by how we think or something people can change if they want to.



My depression came on quite suddenly post-trauma, before I really could process what had happened to me in my accident. It was some time before I realized I was changed from my accident. However, in time I did get myself back and returned to bike racing and eventually got 2 college degrees.



Amazingly, I got my first college degree while depressed. It did take about 7 years. Once on Wellbutrin I got through nursing school at the top of the class with a 3.89 GPA. Just goes to show you how much easier life is when a person is not depressed. It's like trying to pull a locamotive when you are.

Answer 2

I never had much luck with them, but we are each very different. Some people find lots of help in the medications. If your doctor is not ready to prescribe, I am certain there is a reason. The root cause of your depression may respond to therapy and avoid need for medications. Trust the doctor. We are a society that wants and instant cure pill for all our ills and pains, but it's not always the best long-term fix. Give it a chance, and then move toward medications. They have side-effects and just aren't a perfect fix to be honest. Many people gain weight, lose sex drive, feel groggy or some people feel more suicidal. They have saved many lives, but they are NOT a quick and perfect answer. Getting over depression takes work and time. Get ready to give both, and you'll be glad that you did down the road.

Answer 3

I'll just be straight with you: you acknowledge using 2 strong painkillers that work by unbalancing neurotransmitters. Depression is caused by an imbalance of certain neurotransmitters.



The one thing that works all the time is LDC (the link at the bottom explains). It's a long explanation, but the reason it works is because it restores balance to 4 neurotransmitters: dopamine, epinephrine norepinephrine, and serotonin. The word "natural" is outrageously misused, all the supplements and herbal bs might be natural to earth, but virtually none are natural to the body. LDC is natural to the body, it works naturally (naturally producing a reaction that naturally occurs in healthy ppl), and that's everything in a nutshell. OH, the bad news is LDC isn’t' for sale lol, it's a long story, again, explained by the link below. BUT I promise, the depression LDC customer reports will interest everyone.



The fact is - you can't be helped, even LDC won't help you because you are taking drugs that imbalance vital neurotransmitters. BUT, many of the withdrawal symptoms you’d experience if you stop using the drugs are caused by a severe imbalance of certain neurotransmitters. AND, if you use LDC, and balance them, you will not experience the abdominal pain OR the rushes of energy. You’d be able to quit cold turkey, and it would be easy. I’m sure if you are rich with a few million dollars, you might be able to find LDC. Anyway, hopefully the knowledge helps someone.

Answer 4

Cymbalta (duloxetine) is only one that has worked and ive tried about ten

Answer 5

Prozac helped me a bit.

Answer 6

cymbalta was the best one i've used.

i've used zoloft (bad side effects), effexor (no effect), prozac (made my anxiety really bad), wellbutrin (no effect), lexapro (made me sick), and cymbalta.

it depends on you react to it, though. i'd say that it was one of the better choices...little side effects.

Answer 7

all the birds attack you and your feet go green and turn into sacks of water. monkeys and Asians attack your plant pots and dogs touch you penile glans. your house turns into a downsyndrome asylum and retard bus drivers try to pick you up every day at 3.02 am in the morning. you are forced to join the taliban and eat anus omelettes made by fat indian chefs that only eat kangaroo anus. then the swers under your house implode and suck you under into the core of the earth and you burn for eternity unles you can get to the choppa that takes you to the moon and then wallace and grommit take you back home in a post van. then a jabba the hutt sends an army of ewoks at your supermarket to steal food for him, then he attacks your chimney so santa cant come down, then he gets your penis, vuts it into peices and gives a part of it to each of you relatives to eat, the they are sick into tom dg's anus and you have to drink it out of him bum with a straw. and if you dont sawllow it you are killed by midget wrestlers with night-vision goggles and sent to a cyborg world full of androids that have sex with half horse half human things. then you enter the dimesion of ***. where you are instantly turned into a queer and given a injection of AIDS for a laugh then you die unless you lick your own kidney with your scrotum. after that you are chosen to return to earth as a woodlouse. we all live in a woodlouse house, a woodlouse house a woodlouse house, we all live in a woodlouse house a woodlouse house and woodlouse house. the christopher biggins eats you.



THE END



. no only joking, then you fall off a mountain in uzbeckistan and fall into that place where gandalf fought the bal-rog then after that a llama hearder says you are not chosen, and sends you to malaysia for molestoring classes, after this you are forced into a turkish bath with 5 fat iranians that make you eat thier ball hair. once this is done the path of enlightment is completed. then you must start the path of darkness. to do this you MUST not drink any tea for a year. once this is done my friend that i will call alan for now, you are safe to drink as much tea as you want. god's speed and swiftness prophet of mongs