2007-09-26 08:44:39 · 6 answers · asked by Scratch 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
When I was first diagnosed as being depressed, Zoloft was the first anti-depressant that was perscribed to me. For me, the first 3 or 4 days I didn't see anything different. I still felt hopeless and sad. But after about a week, I started feeling a little bit happier. I was able to go out and do social things again and be around people. It felt like I was finally "seeing light" after being in the darkness for so long. The point where people who take anti-depressants [before they take them] feel suicidal is completely a personal thing. There is no specific time, it could be at the beginning of there depression, in the middle, the end or throughout the whole thing! Its really a personal feeling.
2007-09-26 08:50:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You, as the patient, will know when the med is working when your symptoms of depression begin to lessen.
Depression itself increases the risk for suicide. The risk is greatest in those under the age of 24, with or without an antidepressant. Younger people feel that there is no hope and, being young and inexperienced with life, as well as being overwhelmed by their depression, do not and cannot realize that nothing has to be forever. With depression, no matter what the treatment, no matter what the age, the stage of greatest concern is when the depression begins to lessen. Depression is tiring. Fatigue, a lack of energy, these are often symptoms of depression. Suicide takes energy. This is why the greatest risk for suicide is when depression begins to lift. The patient will have more energy.
2007-09-26 09:15:10 · answer #2 · answered by TweetyBird 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People who are suicidal to begin with, are prescribed Zoloft or other anti-depressant medications to remedy the situation, supplying what is missing in your brain that would cause suicidal thoughts and actions.
You can tell Zoloft is working when your thinking becomes more reasonable, when your feelings become less intense. When you regain functions of being able to reason, remember, to figure things out without confusion you will know it has BEGUN to work. Your moments of desparation will become fewer and less intense. You will be able to make more sense of what other people are saying. You will desire to spend less time in solitude. A return of appetite, return of the waking and sleep cycle will begin to show more of a pattern. There is less self-hatred, and the intensely unpopular opinions and false beliefs that dominated the suicidal mind become of less importance, less crucial to your day to day thoughts and speech. The mind becomes more rational. You begin to care whether you bathe, dress and brush your hair. You begin to think and believe and plan for a tomorrow. The brick wall your emotions faced is steps away now, and not in your face. Possibilities of solutions to your problems flicker and you wish you had more hope. You begin to try once more.........This is when you can tell the Zoloft is beginning to work. 3 weeks out.....6 weeks out....3 months and you begin feeling the world is made of color rather than shades of greys and black. One day you realize that you are ALIVE, and that life is worth living.
2007-09-26 09:17:07 · answer #3 · answered by Hope 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I've been on it for 3 weeks now and it hasn't done anything. I am still suicidal because it hasn't kicked in yet, I heard it takes up to 6 weeks for it to work. Good luck.
2007-09-26 08:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by FMR13B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-09 18:08:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im a little confused about your question....isnt that supposed to help with deppression?
2007-09-26 08:48:16 · answer #6 · answered by sweetbottom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋