Have you ever suffered from depression?

[tidytaurus]

I just reread your post gryphon about your meds and dr recently changed mine so maybe I just need some adjustment time for them

[gryphon]

I just reread your post gryphon about your meds and dr recently changed mine so maybe I just need some adjustment time for them

that might be the case

[gryphon]

tonight i helped my grandmother bake chocolate chip oatmeal cookies and it really hlped me. i think i might take up baking as a hobby to help me deal with stuff

[julie.leeds]

baking can be very therapeutic. breadmaking is good for relieving stress, all thank kneeding and rolling helps work out some tension.

[Natalka]

tonight i helped my grandmother bake chocolate chip oatmeal cookies and it really hlped me. i think i might take up baking as a hobby to help me deal with stuff

That's great! I find baking SO relaxing, too. It can be creative, and it's a great feeling of accomplishment - and yummy too!

[Catspajamas]

It's Paxil. It can be very hard to 'get on' and your doctor needs to closely monitor you. It took me 3 weeks to 'get on it' and then it worked like a charm for about one year.
Ask a lot of questions before you go on it. Please read up on Paxil and the lawsuits that have been launched in the States.
Many have likened coming off of Paxil to 'heroin withdrawal'; I agree.

it was such a bad experience i resisted going on anything else for almost 2 years. My new psychiatrist suggested zoloft 100mg and it has been great (for me).

After having 2 babies 15 months apart, I suffered from post-partum depression a few years back. My Doctor put me on EFFEXOR XR and it nearly ruined my life. It is a lot like Paxil, you cannot physically get off of this drug. PLEASE, do NOT accept this drug from your Dr. It was a huge nightmare for me, no one understood why I couldn't just stop taking it. It wreaks havoc on your body. It took me MONTHS of taking the capsules apart, counting individual pellets, reducing them by 1 or 2 pellets every couple of weeks. My Dr. retired, leaving me to find another Dr. that didn't understand. I ended up putting a package together for her about 50 pages long about how she needs to stop prescribing this medication and start educating herself on it. She was so ignorant.
If you are on a depression mediaction, I highly recommend getting this book:The Antidepressant Solution, by Joseph Glenmullen MD
Without this book, I don't know if I ever would have gotten off this terrible drug.
There is a new commercial on TV for a drug called Pristiq. It contains the same medication as Effexor - Venlafaxine. So I'd stay away from that one, too.
Sorry for the rant, I just feel SO strongly about this drug.

[Skippy]

whatever has worked for me for a very long time

Its not the answer for me today though I can't hold it back I am getting snappy with my loved ones and irritated with everyone. I think I will just leave my computer off for a few days and turn the ringer off on the phone. I'm going to take a break before I break.

That is what breaks my heart the most, being snappy and irritated.

[gryphon]

i always have a bout with depression around passover, usually because i feel i havent been as good a jew as i feel i should be. this year however, i became depressed and i dont know why. i was just feeling like crap during the first two days so far. i was acting out and i feel weird. i hope everything improves during the rest of passover.

[BlazingDriver]

My son suffers from severe depression. I'm terribly worried about him & fear for him all the time. We have not been able to get any help. We don't have a family doctor. Every one we have approached for help tells us the same thing. "You have to go to your family doctor". Walk-in clinics, the ER, the "Mental Health Crisis Team" all just turn us away. If you don't have a family doctor you might as well lie down and die because no one cares.

So much for universal health care, eh?

[Skippy]

i always have a bout with depression around passover, usually because i feel i havent been as good a jew as i feel i should be. this year however, i became depressed and i dont know why. i was just feeling like crap during the first two days so far. i was acting out and i feel weird. i hope everything improves during the rest of passover.

Prayer offered.

[Insane]

My son suffers from severe depression. I'm terribly worried about him & fear for him all the time. We have not been able to get any help. We don't have a family doctor. Every one we have approached for help tells us the same thing. "You have to go to your family doctor". Walk-in clinics, the ER, the "Mental Health Crisis Team" all just turn us away. If you don't have a family doctor you might as well lie down and die because no one cares.

So much for universal health care, eh?

I took my husband to the ER. He had been admitted once before when he was manic. But he wasn't sick enough to get admitted that time for his depression. In the end, I called his family doc in tears. The nurse was a huge b*tch and said I couldn't talk to the doc about my husband due to confidentiality, blah blah blah...in the end I did talk to him and he told me to take him to another hospital's ER when he'd be working. I did and slowly he got help.

I can't push ERs enough. For psychiatric emergencies I've always found them great. The larger hospitals have psychiatric ERs that work within the regular ER. They have a mandate to help in crisis.

[BlazingDriver]

I took my husband to the ER. But he wasn't sick enough to get admitted that time for his depression. In the end, I called his family doc in tears.

That's exactly my problem. "Not sick enough". Unless he threatens to kill himself or someone else they don't give a s**t. The fact that he's either sleeping, playing video games or crying for hours on end doesn't bother them one bit. No job, no school, no friends - nothing. In the house 24/7 alone except for when I'm home. He can't even get a prescription for anti-depressents because he has no family doctor. Catch 22.

[gryphon]

ive been having bouts latley as a result of cabin fever from being couped up in my house.

[lekate]

That's exactly my problem. "Not sick enough". Unless he threatens to kill himself or someone else they don't give a s**t. The fact that he's either sleeping, playing video games or crying for hours on end doesn't bother them one bit. No job, no school, no friends - nothing. In the house 24/7 alone except for when I'm home. He can't even get a prescription for anti-depressents because he has no family doctor. Catch 22.

My brother was the same way until he was arrested (for something and resisting arrest) and was finally able to get into the system. Sad that it takes a criminal offense for many to get into the system. (also my brother was over 18, so even my mom couldn't do anything)

[curt81]

After having 2 babies 15 months apart, I suffered from post-partum depression a few years back. My Doctor put me on EFFEXOR XR and it nearly ruined my life. It is a lot like Paxil, you cannot physically get off of this drug. PLEASE, do NOT accept this drug from your Dr. It was a huge nightmare for me, no one understood why I couldn't just stop taking it. It wreaks havoc on your body. It took me MONTHS of taking the capsules apart, counting individual pellets, reducing them by 1 or 2 pellets every couple of weeks. My Dr. retired, leaving me to find another Dr. that didn't understand. I ended up putting a package together for her about 50 pages long about how she needs to stop prescribing this medication and start educating herself on it. She was so ignorant.
If you are on a depression mediaction, I highly recommend getting this book:The Antidepressant Solution, by Joseph Glenmullen MD
Without this book, I don't know if I ever would have gotten off this terrible drug.
There is a new commercial on TV for a drug called Pristiq. It contains the same medication as Effexor - Venlafaxine. So I'd stay away from that one, too.
Sorry for the rant, I just feel SO strongly about this drug.

Just because you had a bad experience with Effexor doesn't mean everyone will. Everyone is different. Any drug could be dangerous but it's the risk we take to feel better. I've been on this drug in the past and need to get back on it as it did help a bit but i'm on it more so for anxiety than depression and I was prescribed the maximum dosage. I never had any withdrawal symptoms, etc.