Ativan causing depression?

So I've been taking the Ativan, albeit rarely because it is so sedating that I can't take it and function properly at work. I even took half of a .5 pill last week sometime and was still super sedated. Anyway when I DO take it, it seems to tumble my mood down for a whole day. Like I took it on Saturday morning because I was high out of my mind and needed to chill tf out, but then sunday I was sooooo depressed I wanted to just let it burn, to say the least. Could that be ativan or am I just cycling that ****ing rapidly? Because today I'm HIGH AF again.

I'm like bordering on Mania for sure but Something is keeping me down, i guess it's the depakote doing SOMETHING at least, it's certainly not rexulti, that **** is causing this mess, I'm sure of it. it's only not mixed or worse because I'm not on an AD right now.

Anyway I don't want to take the ativan if it's going to cause a soul-crushing depression yet if I get too high and freaked out I need something so I guess I'll have to.

It very well can be the ativan. Benzo's are known to cause depression.

Yes, benzos are known to cause depressive symptoms.

I experienced depression while on Ativan, and it was one of the main reasons that I weaned off it (the other being that my body was becoming dependent on it). I was taking the Ativan for anxiety, and instead learned coping tools such as deep breathing and meditation rather than relying on a medication that made me depressed. It also made me unable to cry, which was a very odd feeling.

If I'm not elevated or super anxious to the point of agitation, Ativan can bring down my mood. I don't know if in my case I'd call it depression, but rather sedation to the point of not feeling well. I used to have to take 1 mg, or sometimes even up to 2 mg in the morning to ease my akathisia. That was usually soon after I took my usual 600 mg of morning Tegretol XR and 80 mg of Geodon, which together can be sedating at times.

Once I finally got off of Geodon my akathisia went away. I still take 0.5 mg of Ativan in the morning (still getting weaned off of it), but no longer have any major sedation. My mood is fine at the moment.

I was taking 3 mg of ativan and it never did that to me. Other benzos never made me depressed, either. Ativan doesn't do anything to me.

As some others have commented, Ativan and other benzos can definitely cause depression. Benzos are sedatives and anything that is a sedative has the potential to cause depression.