Hi all
I am new to this forum and I hope it's okay. Although I am not suffering from depression, my 25 year old daughter is. She has had major depressive disorder since late last year and I found this forum for her in the hope that she would log on and talk but I can't seem to get her to. I have lurked for a while and was so inspired by you all that I decided to join anyway.

This is YaYa's second bout with depression. The first time she made a dramatic response to Lexapro. This time she has been on Lexpro and Zyprexa for almost three months now, on increasingly higher doses to no avail. I have gone in and spoken to her psychiatrist twice, but he is reluctant to change her from lexapro since it worked before. She has recently been terminated from her job because of her depression and that has just made things worse.

Its so hard to see my beautiful little girl losing weight and becoming so thin and pale and sad and not being able to help. her. And no one, not her doctor or her therapist seems so understand the urgency. She is dizzy all the time from the 30 mg dose of lexapro she's on. She can't sleep without her sleeping pills and when she takes them she sleeps all the time...sometimes for entire days on end.

I am shopping around for second opinions but few doctors subscribe to her HMO and because she has lost her job, soon she won't even have that and we can't really afford Cobra. I have also started looking for depression studies and university clinics I am at my wits end and looking for help and support out there. I know that you guys may not be able to solve my problems, but if it's okay, I hope at least I've found someone who will listen

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