i'm having some success already a few weeks into taking effexor (venlafaxine)
anxiety and intrusive thoughts are a lot better, depression is improved a little bit, side effects were challenging the first week, but propranolol was good for the akathasia and anxiety .
i'm praying that in the coming weeks it will have a bigger impact on my depression and social phobia
Great if it's working and it will. I remember being on California rocket Fuel( Venlafaxine + Mirtazapine) only Mirtazapine was easy to just stop cause of weight gain.
Venlafaxine is also very unforgiving when miss the dose after 8 weeks sometime sooner...I was on it for 2-3 years..
I knew that a lot of them wouldn't work as my psych said at the time that I should drop them cause she said you are not depressed...you had maybe acute phazes when all that stress happened to you....
She helped me with giving me a Vigifinil(Modafinil) to ameliorate status in withdrawal. later she prescribed me Concerta cause those states stems from being in fatigue and ADD.
I'm interested in stories about Anti-Depressant medications that have 'saved' your life or improved the quality of your life.
Recently a work colleague of mine was in a dark place. Fucked, depressed. Couldn't get out of bed for weeks, couldn't eat, sleep, crying all the time etc... real bad
After 2 or 3 months on Zoloft working up to 100mg a day he is a completely new person. The change has been nothing short of remarkable
hey Sertraline(Zoloft) is SSRI and with Ecsitalopram and Venlafaxine is at the top from the report made by Journal of Psychiatry( I think that was global)! Case study
Venlafaxine has also push with noradrenaline but lower dopaminergic affinity( it's something like 30:1 in contrast to noradrenalin or serotonin ). But I speak from inbetween newbie and basics of pharmacology but I got here and I'm more self-aware now than ever in my life.
Also Effexor(Venlafaxine helps with neuralgia and neuropathy fybromiyalgia chronic fatigue but....only don't be affraid of antidepp withdrawal it looks like it will get hard but in 3 days I was like myself again( a bit of BRAIN ZAPPSS and RLS but not mentally only irritated) and I think they worked for me as I don't see path where I didn't take em.(paralel Universe BS).
Zoloft also has a bit of a push in the morning where I had the most difficult time I tried with one box only and I saw it's almost the same as Venlafaxine so when I felt good she said to me ok...now you drop all of them as you feel better and I also was on that page and I was acctualy better after 2-3 years.
Stimulants helped me but modafinil had very long half-life so it sorta after two months I started always get some rashes and my pee was like dark metal..
later I saw potential in Ketamine so whenever I wanted to leave benzos and bupe it helped me 80% leaving me 3 weeks later in great shape.
I take MDMA 3 times a year I even tried and I wrote here a small report on M&EDD taking it like micro-doses for a two weeks with hard supplements and NAC before and later- Nacetyl-Cysteine or mini doses 15-30mg 3 days, than break for couple days and again.
almost like I knew when to take it like that cause I had traumatic event that I needed to deal with which I neglected thus being crippled for daily activities and I did helped myself.
Those last two things are not recomended without specialist and MDMA is not antidepressant as it helps with PTSD which whcih also I think that
This is my take:
PTSD, ADD, depression always from 4 hospitals that I monitored for my (i don't know how you say the paper you do when finished with 4 years in college) not the PHD like before you become Engineer before Bollogne proces. You know what I mean..
they are cause for later developing OCD or depression that always has manic side which later become bipolar and there are couple fo them.
Then people take lamotrigine to level them-selves or Valproate....Jesus almost like we invented those 100 different states when we patent new drug well we must now invent a disorder that the drug heals.
That is cored in our humans being people with quality like comforting ourselves that we have this or that cause drug works and later we pay for that.
The antidepressants also have ugly side so if I or from my experience: take what you heard works best, or what you see on internet. thank GOD on WWW for that cause there is a lot of information and when you see people mentioning that California Rocketr Fuel is working better than Trazodone or Amislpiride or Quetiapine which are antipsychotics and here doctors still prescribe them for depression or insomnia.
Quetiapine is great in 25mg dose for insomnia but using it sparingly or when have a bad trip or in US you have meth so acute psychosis!
well there are now year and a half for magistrate and and after 3 or 4 years to phd. I'm 36 now and I hope with I will be a doctor. It is my wish and I think I can help as I love people now...I hated hem cause of being sales manager I still twitch when my mobile rings from those 7 years of stress. That is why I use laptop or desktop cmp for most of the time and mobile being for texting and calling..
Zoloft, Prozac(fluoxetine), Venlafaxine, escitalopram are what I think works from all SSNDRI
Mirtazapine is in a bit different category but it works for insomnia also dreams on it are frickin to Lucid I dreamt a butterfly that is me that have dreams of a butterfly and so on!
Weight gain is downside
I hated trazodone, all antipsychotics only use Pipamperone which is a mild one for insomnia.
The MAOi cannot be taken with a lot of stuff from food. so they are way less prescribed but still are.
Jesus Christ am smart today, i think I need to take something fro narcissistic behaviour so I will just go take some cubensis and kill that EGO.
til then....
