Depression - what if antidepressants do not help?

Answer 1

Get regular exercise. Keep your body healthy.
Be social
Don't sweat the small stuff ( and almost all of it is small stuff).
Don't catastrophize
Remind yourself, it could be worse
Accept the worst that could happen, then improve upon it -Dale Carnegie
Remember, insults are often complements in disguise
-Dale Carnegie
Separate and compartmentalize your problems. Think of it as lots of little problems, not one big problem.
Are your fears really rational?
Your life is not really as hopeless as it feels
(Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
Your emotions are not reality unless you accept them as such, it's your choice.
Develop your spirituality
Don't necessarily believe people who say there's something wrong with you. The way our culture is, just about everyone could be labeled as having some sort of "condition". People are natural, and it's actually the modern world that is unnatural, and that causes many problems.

Get to know yourself. Be true to yourself. Love yourself. free yourself.

Answer 2

How many different antidepressants have you tried? How long have you taken them? There are different medications that work in different ways. Some people take one medication for a couple of days and if they don't feel better right away, they decide the drug isn't working and they stop taking it. Antidepressants don't work that way. Sometimes it takes several weeks before the medication starts having an effect. Go back to the doctor who gave you the medication and tell him or her you're not feeling any better. With the information you've provided here, it's difficult to give any more specific advice than this.

Answer 3

Antidepressants generally take a while to "kick in." If you don't get satisfactory results or if you get side effects from one antidepressant, your doctor should switch medications (try a new medication). People have different reactions to different antidepressants. What works for one person may not for another.

Ideally, you should also be receiving some kind of cognitive or behavioral counseling to help get your mind and your life in a better place. The pills are meant to try to fix the brain chemistry that results in physiological clinical depression.

Depression also often occurs along with other mood disorders such as anxiety disorder and sometimes manic-depressive disorder (also called bipolar disorder) is misdiagnosed as depression. Drugs for depression do not really help people with manic-depression disorder. Such persons need an appropriate diagnosis for their illness and they need other specific kinds of medication to treat it than the drugs usually given for depression.

Answer 4

Yes. Different medications have interaction with all people otherwise. The probabilities that antidepressants would have terrible facet results like worsening melancholy is expanded if you're additionally taking different remedy. It could be very primary to speak to each your psychologist and constant surgeon approximately how the medicines are making you believe. If you believe they're particularly doing well for you they nonetheless even have got to realize that. Report any alterations in habits to them regardless of how little you can also feel it's. You might want your dosage transformed. Depending in your age they'll additionally have an effect on you otherwise, more youthful brains are nonetheless establishing. Keep a magazine of ways you're feeling and why you feel you're feeling that means on that specified day.

Answer 5

It takes several weeks to work. Change medications if they don't work. It took me 5 years to find the right anti-depressants for me. I take Wellbutrin 300 mg and Zoloft 200 mg. and my depression has been in remission 4 years now.

Keep trying. Don't give up. Good luck!

Answer 6

Go back to the doctor to try and get a different medicine. It also takes time for some to work. If not try to find a support group or ask your doctor for better ideas to cope and manage.

Answer 7

Then you need to change medications.