Seroquel for depression ??

Only for mental health patients?Depression is a mental health issue. I take 150 mg a day and I have depression and anxiety and it’s been a good medication for me. I just don’t know if it’s for my anxiety or depression. I’m going to research it.

How does it make you feel? My dad just started on it. So far, he’s been pretty sleepy and quiet. He had been losing a lot of sleep.

Let me put it this way. I was on 200 mg of seroquel and I was feeling pretty good. My illness started going downhill and I asked my psychiatrist if he could help me.
He raised my dosage to 300 mg at bedtime. A couple of days went by and I was literally bouncing off the wall and I had to be held up by 2 people to make it to my room. It was horrible like a nightmare.
So I asked my psychiatrist to lower it back to 200 mg. Then I started feeling fairly well.
Then I asked him if he could lower it to 100 mg. Since I wanted off it. It turned into an uncontrollable mess.
100 mg was not enough so we went back to 200 mg and that was just ok.
I couldn’t walk on 300mg at bedtime.
Now I’m still on 200 mg but I’ve had my depression increased with time. Today he prescribed something else to try. We’ll see how that goes. No matter what dose I was on I still got up at 3:00 am. So I’m waiting to see how the new med does.
I wasn’t getting enough sleep so that’s why I was on it. After a few months it stopped helping me sleep and I got up at 3:00 ate very little. Lost 7 lbs. but I fall asleep around 9:00 and then I sleep well until my 3:00 awakening. Some people say it was awful so it’s not for everyone. I’m still back on 200 mg. My best dose.

I appreciate your input.

Daddy is taking 25 mg per day. He’s sleeping most of the day and night, getting up for meals and the bathroom. His walking is the same. He isn’t as anxious and seems to not be as bothered by his itching. It may be it’s affecting him so much due to how exhausted he was. He doesn’t have a refill on the bottle, so I don’t know if this will be continued going forward. I hope so, since he seems more content.

25 mg in the morning is ok. No problem that I can feel. 25 mg isn’t really a working drug and to me it’s a waste but I do take 200mg at bedtime and it helps me fall asleep but I’m still getting up at 3:00 am.
He added another medication and I was having to hold the wall to walk. So I stopped it.
It’s as if I was on 300 mg of seroquel again. It’s been 2 days without it and I already don’t know if it will help but I feel better. All I was on was 200 mg at bedtime. Not the right med as I only sleep 3 hours a night.
I’m waiting to hear from him today through my case manager.
I need something that does increase the sleeping time If it is not working. I had to get off like I said. We’ll see what happens

I believe it helps with depression when you can't take a ssri like most people with bipolar disorder because it could send them into a manic phase.