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Originally Posted by sewerrats
This is a doctors NIGHTMARE . The truth is very high percentage are not sensitive to meds , they are scared of them yes ,but the side effects make a lot give up on med that are just plain normal. FIRST start a antidepressant and it will make you feel worse that you already feel fact. .IT can get to bad that you need to come off like seizures ect ect but hanging over the toilet being sick 24-7 is normal has is chronic diarrhoea , plus the felling someone has hit you on the back of the head with a baseball bat there all normal on start up. Weak body ,racing thoughts , spaced out, tired all day. There all normal and can last for weeks , sometime putting you to bed with side effects. its hard to go to work when first starting an AD there is a med in your head fighting depression for your brain it can get brutal. You can go back to your doc every 4 weeks and say this is not working , then he gives you a new one and off you go again, when really if you had given the first one another week it may have kicked in and worked. SO I say to all those mildly depressed don't take an AD you will become worse .They only work on real chronic depression and also chronic depressed if you carnt stand the normal brutal start up, is you depression that bad, because I would walk bare foot over broken glass for a mile if I thought it was going to work
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I'm sorry sewerrats, but I've been on AD's for most of my life and none of those side effects are normal at all. There is nausea, some stomach upset, headache, maybe some sleepiness. But if they don't get better in 2 weeks then something needs to change. You may be speaking of the harsher anti psychotics, and I have no experience with those. I understand we're talking about a different level of mental illness in respect to those drugs. But for straight up anti depressants, there are too many options out there to tolerate such symptoms. Not to mention what you described sounds dangerous.