do antidepressants have any sort of "crash" effect?

I feel sort of hungover the next day, Unless this is just the med leaving my system, because its always right before my next dose. I have no idea if its related to this. But there is no alternative right now because its better than being depressed/anxious all the time. The only reason i am posting this is because someone told me antidepress. made him "crash" a lot- and it stuck in my head...

You might mention that to your doctor. I never really noticed an up and down thing with AD's unless I completely forgot a dose by a significant amount of time. It may be that your dose needs to be split into two doses a day or something to keep that from occurring.

I crashed bad basically every day on Effexor, it has a short half life which was the reason it happened. Unfortunately for me it didn't help dividing the dosage. I tried that, taking it mornings, taking it nights. If I took it mornings I couldn't get out of bed almost to take it, felt too bad, took it at night instead and just waited the last 3 hours until the next dosage that almost became a rush.

So knowing this makes me wonder if you are on a med with a short half life and maybe you are metabolizing it really fast. In that case you probably need to spread out your dosages more or something like that. It is a real thing and your doc should know about it.

Yeah along the same lines, maybe the half life is just a little too short on your med. You could try asking for one that has a longer half life.

I looked up the half life of the antidepressant I'm on, wellbutrin, and it's 12 to 38 hours. I don't have any crash effect so it must be somewhere past 24 hours for me. Either that or I don't notice because I take the wellbutrin right when I wake up before I have a chance to really suss out how I'm feeling.

what med are you on, if you don't mind answering?