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Why after getting depression very bad went on antidepressants
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Apr 23 6:42pm | Replies (29)Comment receiving replies
Before being diagnosed with bipolar two, my doctors would always give me antidepressants to treat my depression. That’s like putting fuel on a fire. It causes your highs to be higher and your lows to be lower. My depression would last for up to nine months at a time. I finally got help when I went into a treatment center after I had taken a overdose of trazodone with a couple of bottles of wine. I was diagnosed as being bipolar 2. With bipolar.2 patients depression is the hardest thing to treat. I have been going to a state run facility here in Florida Florida called.SMA. They see patients with mental illness five days a week eight hours a day unlike the doctors that gave me antidepressants for 30 years, these doctors put me on an antipsychotic and a mood stabilizer and buspirone which is effective for long-term treatment of severe anxiety, panic attacks, and PTST. It’s not addictive like Xanax or Klonopin. So maybe find a new doctor one who has more experience in treating different mental illnesses. I often feel like my doctor should’ve told me that I needed to go to someone who specializes in particular mental illnesses if they want to put you on Seroquel to treat your depression tell them no. Ask for Latuda instead.
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I had a similar experience. I spent years on Effexor and the depression slowly worsened and then went into overdrive with very long bouts of it. It got pretty scary and finally I was in the hospital where I was diagnosed as bipolar 2 as well. They kept me on it and added mood stabilizers, which flattened me out, but didn't really fix things. It took several more months still and another deep sink, but eventually the antidepressant was determined to be the driving cause of my steep descent. I got off of it, and within days was feeling much better, and within a few weeks had experienced a major turnaround.
There are studies showing links between bipolar 2 and deepening depression from antidepressants. It isn't common, but it is known. I switched to lamotrigine, and that seems to have aided in a full recovery. It's an anticonvulsant approved for bipolar 2 patients. Different things work for different people, and antidepressants can work miracles for many. But they can and do flip some people the opposite direction. That's what happened to me, and it sounds like you had a similar response.
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Unfortunately bit late I’m on lexapro 15mg and seroquel 100mg 50 mg in morning and 50mg before bed both have helped with depression but anxiety panic attacks have been crippling