Deppression

I am off work with depression and aniexty feel so ill doctor given me anti depressants but feel worse

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Yes you probably will feel worse before you are better, they take at least 3 weeks

To begin have a beneficial effect, but you know antidepressants are great but are no magic bullet and there are lots of things which you can start doing now to feel better.

Things like a good diet, excercise every day and doing some things you love every day and trying to stay socially connected.

I say all this because I use these strategies myself, I feel my antidepressants are 50% and the rest is hard work on my part, making sure I do everything to help myself.

You haven't given a  lot of detail, so I will leave it here, hope you feel better soon, but start doing little things to help yourself right now.

Hannah

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Thanks Hannah

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Hi didn't your doctor warn you that you can feel worse before you start to feel better and it will take a few weeks for them to get fully into your system?   x

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He did but for about a week, been on them 3 weeks now

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Hi maybe the dose is too low then.  I started on 100 mgs which didn't help but putting them up to 150 mgs was great.  Am still on them.  x

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Feel real sick after taking them

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Well maybe they don't suit you?  I tried 2 others before I went on sertraline.  I would go back to your doctors and get them changed x

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Think I will

[endogenous]

Anti -depressants are trial and error. Some can make you feel worse and some better. Fortunately there are many types that work on different chemicals in the brain. What works for one person may not work for another.

This Dr gives good advise on them. She doesn't buy (neither do I) that you might feel worse before you feel better- provided you start on the lowest dose possible sharischreiber.com/antidepr...

I have been on several Anti -D's and all of the different groups. When I felt worse on them,  it never got better. From day 1 taking Imipramine I felt slightly better and that is the pill I have been on since 1988

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Thanks that was very good reading

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CBT is great, it helped me tremendously. I think if I had got into psychoanalysis it would have made me worse. I would have analysed everything and thought everything was relevant. CBT is very effective for phobias and eating disorders too

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Got my first cbt tomorrow

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Was on venaflexine now on sertarline

[Kainan]

Hi. 3 weeks is the bare minimum amount of time it takes for an antidepressant to work. Some others like Prozac take even 5 to 8 weeks to work. So don't feel too discouraged.

Like Hannah said, taking medication is only the half of it; you have to put in some work to make yourself feel better.

CBT can also be just as helpful, if not more than antidepressants alone

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Hi yes starting cut on thursday

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Hi, what's cut?

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Cbt

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Yeah I figured. that's good. I hope you find it helpful. Cheers!

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Hope so too, need help at the moment

[lparkinson]

Know how u feel I'm n cirtalapham have been for 2 weeks today feel better but still spaced out so think the dose is too low as had blood tests n all normal 

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I have had all tests done all come back negative, changed doctors and he said depression /aniexty, but just feel sick all the time and lightheaded

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Yer I've been feeling light headed for few months now but app it's normal with depression yer app blood tests were k 

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Yes fine had 3 in the last year ct scan, ct head scan all ok

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Yer my blood tests r all k so just depression

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Yep not good eh

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No definitely not especially wen I keep thinking the worst of it 

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How are you feeling now

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After a year with aniexty/depression still feel so physically ill, dizzy feeling sick all the time

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I feel the same holly but I retch too well fight it all the time

Had Cbt didn't really work for me

The feeling this way

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I have had cbt did not really work for me