As your tdoc said, medication can help you cope and handle "constructively", your negative thinking patterns.

What anti-depressants don't do is make you "high". Will you have more energy with the right meds, hopefully. But that is because depression tends to drain you of all hope and consequently "functioning" energy....IMHO.

Please give the medication sometime to act, and try to deal with small side effects, like nausea or mild headaches, etc. as they come.....those side effcts will usually end with time.

Sleeping problems are the worst for me too. Trazadone did nothing for me. It did not help me sleep, but remember EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT, and medications act differently in everyone, so give it some time.

Take care and keep us posted.