Drugs and their uselessness.

[rachiemachine]

I wonder why antidepressants are so ineffective for me. I wonder, too, why I feel so many side-effects as a result of them and yet no benifits. More importantly, I can't decide if this fact feels validating or invalidating. My instinct is toward the latter, naturally, but with a little reframing the former seems more logical

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[800ml]

maybe you're on the wrong type of anti-depressant. i used to be on prozac (an ssri) which sucked like a monkey's ass on fire after being shot out of a cannon. but eventually it worked (until the point where it started to be the cause of my depression). my bf on the other hand was on avanza (brand name for mirtazapine), which made him sleep so heavy that sometimes it was impossible to wake him up. but that was the only side effect he experienced. he's told a few of his friends about mirtazapine and after they asked their doctors to prescribe instead of stuff like zoloft, they said they were way happier with it than other anti-depressants.

if you haven't tried it already, maybe give it a go?

here's a link with more about it