Anyone’s suicidal thoughts or SI increase w/ meds?

Hi Everyone,

I gained a lot of info from reading your posts here but was wondering if any of you have ever experienced a medication turning on you? I’ve tried a variety of anti-depressants and ended up being on Zoloft for about 5 years. I stopped taking it since Feb. of this year because my suicidal thoughts suddenly increased as well as my self harm issues. Once I quit the meds the self harm stopped and the suicidal thoughts decreased. I’m not positive it was the meds but am still hesitant to go back on any of them. Have any of you experienced this? If you have I’d love to hear whether or not you decided to try another med or if you’re trying to stay off of them.

Thanks for the support and I offer you all my ear and support as well. ~ Bee

I was on Celexa for 2 weeks. Prior to it I wasn't suicidal, but 2 weeks into it I had a few nights where I got VERY suicidal. My doctor explained to me that it probably wasn't the meds, or it was too soon to tell if it was from them, but more likely it was the effect of them. I had been feeling more "up" since taking them, and she said a common effect is, you feel good and then you start thinking of all your problems, and now you also have the energy to commit suicide, so once you make the realization of all your problems, combined with extra energy, that's where most suicide ideation comes from with meds.

Just in case, she stopped me on Celexa and gave me Effexor. Two weeks into Effexor, same thing, only this time I actually did attempt, not just thought. I tend to believe her "theory" more than the medicines doing something themselves to cause it because I don't know how two would do it to me in that short time.

For you, though, you were on it 5 years and it happened. I think something like that does mean it was the meds doing it to you, and if it was the meds, that should mean trying a new one with different chemicals will do something different to you. Maybe you could try something new and keep in close contact with your doctor while you are starting to monitor the suicidal effects at first, at least. Good luck (sorry this is so long lol)

prozac made me feel very suicidal, never self harmed as such but felt like it on prozac.

just had my meds doubled again, migraines are terrible, feel like crap every day at moment.

c'est la vie

jinnyann xoxoxoxxo ps on citralapram/cipralex 10mg and diazapam 5mg

I had terrible suicidal thoughts during the 10 days I lasted on prozac, and when I was on apropax I thought it was doing nothing for me as I was SIing just as much and extremely suicidal (until I went off it althogether and became so ill I ODed and ended up in hospital). I have no advice to offer sorry; just giving my experiences of these 2 (p.s. Citralopram, usually 60mg/day, worked great for several years until post-natal depression compounded all my symptoms; and I am now on Effexor, just gone from 375mg/day to 300mg/day, which apart from the side-effects is the best I have been on).

seroxat made me into a monster soon as i stopped i was ok

I started having suicidal thoughts when I was on Wellbutrin... had never had those thoughts before. My doc noticed how messed up I was and told me to stop taking Wellbutrin immediately. I was fine about a week after I stopped taking it.

Turns out Im BP2 and my pdoc said that AD's can make BP more depressed with higher frequency of SH and suicide.
I was treated for depression for over a year and used a # of different antidepressants my SI increased during that time .
When I got off them,the thoughts of SH eased and when I started lithium the suicidal thoughts eased even more.
Good luck.

I'm constantly battling suicidal thoughts. But one of the worse reactions I ever had was with EMSAM.

It's an MAOI in a transdermal patch system. I had really high hopes. The patch was applied once a day. Because it was a patch you didn't have to be as careful about the foods you ate.

Headed right for the celler.....was really disappointed.