Taking Anti-Depressants After Prolonged Meth Use?

[Zapgunn]

I have had a lot of issues with meth over these past few years, but I’m clean now. The problem is I feel pretty shitty all the time. Let me clarify: I’m anxious, depressed, tired most of the time, and suffer from anhedonia. There are so many things that used to make me so happy, that just don’t anymore. I can hardly even find the energy to make an online dating profile or pursue sex in any way. I feel hopeless a lot that I will always feel this way. Like my brain got fucked from all the speed I shot and all the psychosis i went into as a result of doing too much for too long.

Has anyone here had any luck with taking anti-depressants after prolonged use of meth? I’m not talking about for the comedown, but more for the months (years?) of depression that follow a habit. If not anti depressants does any one have anything else that works? I know healthy eating and exercise are essential and I’m doing my best, but sometimes the depression makes it difficult to do so. I do get out and exercise about 3 times a week right now.

Oh yeah, I also quit kratom about 2 weeks ago. The withdrawals were minimal, but I’m sure thats not helping my energy levels.

 

[CalicoSam]

I can picture an antidepressant helping. I have two contradictory pieces of advice about using ADs if your doctor thinks its a good idea. If you do start one give it some time. The initial side effects tend to diminish and become more tolerable and for most ADs the benefits tend to not kick in for two weeks to two months.

And my contradictory advice is do be ready to give up on the AD if you have gone three months and you have no benefits and only unwanted effects. Individual ADs are not efficacious for some people, whole classes of ADs aren't efficacious for some people. There is no way to know who will benefit except to have a sufficient personal trial of the agent.

I wasn't ever a meth user. I'm saying ADs are useful for some people recovering from meth and not others because people have told me their stories about its being a big help and others have told me it was a waste or even a problem.

Two people told me that exercise and the supplement l-glutamine was what they thought helped the most. L-glutamine is a precurser to gaba a "relaxing" neurotransmitter as well as being a precursor to glutamate a stimulating neurotransmitter. I don't know that the precursor thing is a factor in glutamine being perceived as helpful by those two or not. And two anecdotal cases does not make for any facts or proof, but mentioned it cause there isn't a lot of advice out there for helping with post meth doldrums in either conventional medicine or alternative.