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03-12-2018 12:13 PM
03-12-2018 12:13 PM
Antidepressants :-(
Hello can someone please help me?
i am currently on antidepressants for OCD anxiety
i have one left until i hit the 28 day mark
but I don’t feel any better if anything i feel worse. I don’t so much feel anxious just “Blah” like im going to be stuck like this forever never being able to feel happiness or joy again. Doesn’t Help that my OCD is centred around my mental health failing liike scared i am going to get or going thru dimenture or lose my mind in some way i am only 27. My question is for anyone who is taking antidepressants does it get better? I feel like I wasn’t depressed before i started taking it but i have been highly anxious before it so maybe its just i am mentally tired i dunno 😞 i just want to be me again
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03-12-2018 12:37 PM
03-12-2018 12:37 PM
Re: Antidepressants :-(
i dont currently take anti-depressents however i have in the past and i found them helpful. it did take some time to frind the right ones though and usually can take up to 6-8 weeks to see a difference. sometimes an increase in the dose is required or a change in meds if the side effects are too unbearable or that your not finding them helpful
i think it would be worth having a chat to your gp or your psychiatrist about how your feeling as well.
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03-12-2018 01:58 PM
03-12-2018 01:58 PM
Re: Antidepressants :-(
@outlander Thank you for the reply
I went to the gp about 2 weeks ago and he said the 6-8 weeks but was just curious if anyone else had the same sort of “blah” feeling almost like you have lost your ability to be happy almost like i am thinking it but my body wont produce it sounds weird i know
i was told it would get worse before it got better.
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03-12-2018 02:02 PM
03-12-2018 02:02 PM
Re: Antidepressants :-(
yep i have felt very blah on medications before and did go through a it gets worse before it gets better stage as well. i tend to get very anxious so i was put onto a calmer sort of anti-depressent which then brought out my depression. after increasing a few times though it got better. Hopefully thats the case for you as well
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03-12-2018 05:19 PM
03-12-2018 05:19 PM
Re: Antidepressants :-(
Hopefully 😞 ill stick with it for a couple more weeks and se how i go. There are plenty of people on the net saying it may be bad now but gets much better just hope it does before Christmas so i can be happy with my son
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04-12-2018 10:48 PM
04-12-2018 10:48 PM
Re: Antidepressants :-(
@AnxiousMe Yes I have felt "nothing" before while taking anti depressants. Normally when I start a new anti depressant or when an anti depressant is increased. At that time I worry that I am too numb. But eventually I feel better and that nothingness or numbness goes away. Except one time when my dose was too high.
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04-12-2018 11:43 PM
04-12-2018 11:43 PM
Re: Antidepressants :-(
@utopia Hopefully it gets better i just feel like im disconnected to my feelings in a sence i read that its the brains defence mechanism for feeling to much negative emotion as i was in a very anxious state for months before i went onto antidepressants I wasn’t really depressed just really anxious, i am going to my gp in a couple of days to talk to him about it just not sure he will understand lol
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05-12-2018 10:45 AM
05-12-2018 10:45 AM
Re: Antidepressants :-(
a few points could be just from your posts:
- feeling disconected to feelings
-feeling low or numb
- Lacking feelings of enjoyment
- feeling worse since starting the medications.
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05-12-2018 10:59 AM - edited 05-12-2018 11:00 AM
05-12-2018 10:59 AM - edited 05-12-2018 11:00 AM
Re: Antidepressants :-(
@outlanderThat works, im not sure if its the medication or just my overthinking/anxiety I don’t believe i have a dissociative disorder as i have really only felt the sence in the past week or 2 probably only ever felt the feeling once in my life 7 years ago when my worst bout of OCD started so im leaning more towards A symptom of my Anxiety my brains “defence mechanism” for be too overworked i have read alot about it which I probably shouldn’t haha
doesnt help that with OCD i think about the symptoms more
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05-12-2018 11:07 AM
05-12-2018 11:07 AM
Re: Antidepressants :-(
if its your anxiety/overthinking more recently has something triggerred you at all to amke you more anxious than usual?