does anyone know which depression medicine has the least side effects?

Answer 1

The best depression medicine is to recognize that depression comes from within you and can be removed from within you by correct understanding. Can you be happy even for one moment, say if something wonderful happens? If so, then can you choose to be happy in the moment after that? And in the moment after that? Depression only comes when we wrongly think that we can live our lives in the past or the future. The present is the only moment that exists NOW! You can choose to be happy in this moment and the next and so on. So depression doesn't need to have any hold over you because it is an illusion.

Medicines do NOT cure depression. They can make it worse because they wrongly make you think that the solution for depression, along with the cause for it, are outside of you.

Answer 2

Depends on the severity of the situation I think.
Zoloft seems to be the safest..I have heard the least horror stories from it.
Stay away from paxill. Bad news right there.
Im on zoloft and the only side effect that was really bad was a decreased appetite. But it eventually comes back.
Talk to your doctor though to find out which would be best for your situation.

To the people up there about how drugs dont help depression..Thats a lie.
If it is caused by your outside surroundings and your life..Then no it wont help you have to change that.
But if it is a chemical imbalance..which I have..Then it will change your life. It really will. It helps you.

Answer 3

I noticed a lot of people saying lexapro, and I do know people who have taken it with no problems, but it didn't help at all and I gained 30 pounds in less than a month - kind of defeated the purpose of an antidepressant if you ask me. I take wellbutrin now and I absolutely love it. I haven't had any problems, and in less than 2 weeks I felt more like myself than I have in years. Of course, I'm also severely ADHD, and wellbutrin is supposed to be one of the best for people with ADHD because it works so differently from the SSRIs and MAOIs - it actually changes your dopamine levels, which can help with ADHD (although not enough to be used on its own for that purpose). But combined with adderall, it's been unbelievable - I even came off of my daily anti-anxiety medicine and was able to drop back to taking it on an as needed basis, which has been MAYBE once every 4-6 weeks.

Answer 4

Sunshine friendship and love!


Seriously they all have some side effects. The ones most tested and out of the market longest have the most UNDERSTOOD effects. The newer ones are designed to treat people with depression and pain or depression and anxiety. Describe your symptoms to your health care provider and ask them what they use the most and why. If it just because they have samples.... ask more questions

Answer 5

I've been thinking about taking antidepressants too but because I'm a nurse I know for a fact that antidepressant-use must be prescribed and really needed. ^_^ You are right that all antidepressants have adverse effects. And you can't get these drugs without a doctor's prescriptions. My suggestion is go for the counselling first before you get into drugs. While drugs hasten depression recovery, it has to be prescribed. Believe me. Sedatives may do you good for now before getting into the real antidepressant thing. Sleep helps us connect with ourselves. And throughout the sleep cycle, we develop problem-solving according to studies. Most antidepressants promote sedation. But antidepressants are different from sedatives. Antidepressants regulate your brain hormones while sedatives just make you sleep. I still believe in drug-free recovery.. ^_^ antidepressants can be addictive and even sedatives. Try to get lots of sleep. Exercise also promotes brain circulation which promotes mental and overall health. And lots of water. Dehydration decreases your sensorium. ^_^ and try YOGA.

Answer 6

Lexapro has been proven to be the fastest acting, light on your stomach and very little side effects if any. I have been on it for a long time and it's the only one out of tons that I've tried that has worked since I have a very sensitive stomach. Good luck!

Answer 7

I think Zoloft is one of the safest ones out there. I used Prozac when I was a teenager and had horrible side effects, then used Zoloft as an adult and experienced no side effects at all.

Answer 8

Natural remedies offer the least side effects

Answer 9

the side effects of medication are different for everyone. however, i think the side effects of the medication are better than the effects of depression.

Answer 10

laughter

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.