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Wellbutrin, somewhere in the week to a month to really start working.
Does alcohol count?
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If I could be just slightly drunk 24/7, I would be so successful.
There’s a movie about that. It’s pretty good
What’s the movie?
It’s not Drunken Master is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Round
This is the one I was thinking but drunken master fits as well!
It just kinda blended in, I don’t have a real timeframe. I am very helpful.
Immediate. I tried prozac and it was absolutely horrible. After a week of taking it, I was so utterly miserable that being depressed was a step upwards, and I felt
greatnot so bad after coming off it. That kept the depression away for quite a while.Depression: Faster than immediate - I felt much better the instant I finally decided to treat it as an illness.
As fir the medication itself, ignoring not feeling too good from side effects, I was most surprised how it *immediately* fixed my sleep patterns, like day 1.
That felt like the foundation on which the rest of the improvement was built.
Depression: SSRIs, within a few days Anxiety: Promethazine, within a few days
I took prozac for a little over a year. It never did anything for my depression or to help stop smoking, but it did give me ED while on it. So if you want to still be sad but also not ever jerk off or have sex, I’d recommend it.
I already have no clue how to jerk off anyways… never did it; I might already have it tbh lmao
Well it actually helped me, and I only get the ED from seratrelin.
This is why you are supposed to be under psychological observation while taking it.
Prozac gave me hyperhidrosis that never went away. I sweat like a pig now when there’s the tiniest bit of humidity in the air.
Venlafaxine (SNRI).
Took a couple weeks to settle into side effects, and about half a year to dial up the dosage (with side effects being a few days to a week after dosage changes).But it was pretty immediate. I think a big part was the act of treating it, the act of getting help.
Had a lot of ups & downs, took a while to “trust” it, to recognise it working. And building the habit of taking meds helped maintain a schedule.I took citralopram for a couple of years. It took about 3 weeks to kick in.
Depression, Prozac. Approximately 2-3 weeks when the initial benefits kick in, which is also how long it roughly took for me to feel depressed again when I once accidentally stopped the medication
Never worked
I took estrogen for depression, it started working within a week :p
wtf same?? 😮
solution: everyone gets free estrogen! /j
Sounds like I should test if going on testosterone does the same someday.
I’ve taken a bunch of anxiety meds. The only one that worked somewhat was Ativan, but I stopped after a few weeks because I was too anxious about taking it regularly and developing a benzo addiction.
They never worked. For some unlucky people, anti-depressants just straight up don’t work. If you’re new at it, keep at it, but if it’s been a few months it might be time to switch medication. if you’ve already switched a bunch of times, they might not work for you and your only option is probably therapy
“Some unlucky people” turns out to be 85% of people with depression. What that suggests to me is that depression is a syndrome with multiple causes, and typical antidepressant drugs treat one of them.
Seems to only mention SSRI specifically, not about antidepressants in general
Also this: “suggested that the active ingredients in 10 of the most popularly prescribed antidepressant medications made a meaningful difference in only 15 percent of the patients who took them, almost always in those patients suffering from the most severe depression”
So yeah… that’s me lmfao…
Hey OP, I’m glad you’re fighting this fight. You’re worth it and I’m glad to have you around.
