Hi, Palmdalegirl!

If you have been taking a single medication with gradual increases in dosage for over a year without significant results, be sure to inform your doctors (unfortunately, busy doctors may not realize what's up with each individual patient).

It's possible they may want to try another drug, or they may want to try two different antidepressants at once -- some work together well to strengthen each other's effects. But this is all highly individual; different drugs can have extraordinarily different effects on different people.

Additionally, the doctors really, really need to have a good idea of your whole medical profile. Each antidepressant has its own list of contraindications -- "don't give to people suffering from condition X, don't give to people taking medication Y, don't give to people who have a sensitivity to Z, don't eat/drink A-B-C while taking this medication, etc."

The support group sounds as if it could be a tremendous help. I wish you the very best.