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antidepressants?
If i get described for anitdepressants, will i seriously..go insane? or what? or crazy?
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No.
With antidepressants, you usually have to work your way up on doses. As long as they don't increase them too quickly, you'll be fine.
Antidepressants are supposed to make you feel better, not worse. If they DO make you feel worse, you need to tell the doctor who prescribed them. You might feel better within a week of taking them, depending on the medication and the strength. You just have to patient.
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I'll keep this short!
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Depending on your history and health, anti depressants sometimes don't work well with other mood stabilisers and other drugs.
If you do get prescribed anti depressants, it is unlikely it will worsen your symptoms. but if something was to trigger a side effect, your progress would be monitored anyway and your doctor would help you from there.
Plus;
Everything you need to know about the drug you'd be taking will be explained to you first.
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Anti-depressants, or SSRI's (which is the family of drugs most often referred to as anti-depressants) are pretty serious medications, but they are NOT high-risk medications.
There is something called serotonin syndrome that these medications can contribute too. It's rather rare, and normally it happens when a person doesn't take their medication correctly (either takes too much, or suddenly stops taking it all together) or when they take an additional medication that causes a drug reaction or overdose (This is why it’s very, very important to be honest with your doctor/nurse/dentist about what medications you are taking. You never know what might be important and interact).
Your doctor will give you lots of information if they give you anti-depressants. You shouldn’t smoke (cigarettes or weed) while on anti-depressants and you shouldn’t drink to excess. Ecstasy and LSD can also cause serotonin syndrome. You also need to be careful if you take any migraine medications or prescription painkillers too.
Really, this is just about being aware of what you put into your body.
There is a really, really, really small chance, that you might experience serotonin syndrome from just going on the medication. But that is actually really unlikely. People who are against pharmaceuticals like to create this myth that anti-depressants will cause you to go insane, and that just isn’t true. What IS true is that if you are one of those very, very few people who have a negative reaction to anti-depressants, and start to feel more nervous and upset, all you need to do is call your doctor and help you decide what the best treatment is. As soon as you treat serotonin syndrome, it fades in about a day.
Anti-depressants can be life-savers, but like everyone medication you have to pay attention, listen to your doctor and be responsible. If you do that, they are perfectly safe, and they might really improve your life.
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