Have antidepressants helped?
DanielQ432
Registrant
I haven’t posted on here for a couple of years. We’ve all been collectively dealing with a lot lately, so my personal struggles felt less to me somehow. Now though I am particularly down in the dumps, and it’s different now from how I usually have found my mental health challenges.
I’ve always lived with PTSD symptoms- that’s really all about anxiety and fear. When I was in therapy (for many, many, many years) I used to describe it as feeling like I was the prey, hunkered down and hiding as silently as possible in the tall grass, with the pack of predators circling and seeking me out.
And there is still plenty of that. But I also have come to this place where I have shut down and do the absolute bare minimum I can to get through each day. I have no enthusiasm for much of anything I used to enjoy, and actively resent some of those things in my life now which I have to continue to engage with because I started them in the past, such as keeping up yard and garden - my former pleasures are now drudgery.
I still see a psychiatrist about 3 times a year, mostly to keep the resource available if I do need help with something new. I’ve been prescribed several different types of antidepressants in the past but honestly I never found them helpful. They never made the pack of predators go away, that’s for sure.
Guys, have any antidepressants helped you with depression or anxiety? Or at least given you more energy? I know something needs to change in my life, maybe this could help?
I’ve always lived with PTSD symptoms- that’s really all about anxiety and fear. When I was in therapy (for many, many, many years) I used to describe it as feeling like I was the prey, hunkered down and hiding as silently as possible in the tall grass, with the pack of predators circling and seeking me out.
And there is still plenty of that. But I also have come to this place where I have shut down and do the absolute bare minimum I can to get through each day. I have no enthusiasm for much of anything I used to enjoy, and actively resent some of those things in my life now which I have to continue to engage with because I started them in the past, such as keeping up yard and garden - my former pleasures are now drudgery.
I still see a psychiatrist about 3 times a year, mostly to keep the resource available if I do need help with something new. I’ve been prescribed several different types of antidepressants in the past but honestly I never found them helpful. They never made the pack of predators go away, that’s for sure.
Guys, have any antidepressants helped you with depression or anxiety? Or at least given you more energy? I know something needs to change in my life, maybe this could help?