I'm angry without my antidepressants, has anyone else gone through this?

[Anonymous]

I've suffered from depression all my life. I was put on medication 10 years ago and it helped for a long time. However recently it has stopped working and my doctor has decided I need to switch medications. This means slowly stopping one before starting the other.

Im currently in the no man's land between medications. It's really effecting my life. Without them the slightest thing makes me furious. This has obviously had a negative impact on my relationship as the slightest annoyance and I blow my top.

For this we are living apart in the interim. I guess my question is just asking if anyone else has experience this and how did you cope as I'm struggling.

Obviously I'm seeing my doctor and will ask them, but waiting times are so long at the moment that I just thought I'd see if anyone had been through something similar.

Thanks!

[sage2021]

Well, I have been taking an antidepressant they use for sleep. I've been taking it since 1999.
It has always given me a great night's sleep. But it doesn't anymore. I wake up all night long then finally just get up and stay up at midnight or real early hours.
But I have the same problem as you: an antidepressant that just stopped doing it's job all of a sudden. It's the pills themselves I noticed it right away. They even look different, not the edges aren't finished off and they like pills you'd get off the street that someone made at home. Big Pharma is screwing with us!

[Asker]

I'm sorry to hear you're struggling. I can't sleep either but I just take that as given now lol. I feel so unstable without meds I wonder how my life would have gone without them!

[sage2021]

Do you think the pharmasutical companies are doing something to our prescriptions? Some of mine are even shaped differently. They are not the same, and don't work like they used to.
I think we have too many people in America and they are trying different ways to make the pills so they have something to give to the people - even if they don't work. Something is going on though. We probably just don't know about it yet or they aren't making it known to the public.
I quit talking my antidepressants and I should have gone into withdrawals from doing that, but doing that didn't effect me like before when I went off if them.
I am not in anyway saying you should go off your meds. If they still work for you, then fine. But if they don't, call your doctor and the pharmacist where you get your medications at and tell them ok?

[swati404]

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[In_Trance]

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