I was on a certain antidepressant for a few months. But they were not helping so I came off them. Once I came off them it took about a week and I then felt totally undepressed and how I would describe normal. After about 3-4 weeks of feeling normal I can feel depression coming back. I am going to go to the doctors but I was wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them?
Feeling better after coming off antidepressants for a short while?
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- 3+ months ago by 123harry4...
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- depression, depressed, antidepressants, mental illness, mental health, mental disorder
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I haven't had it personally happen to me, but I've known people who said their antidepressants did not help at all and that they felt better once they stopped taking them. And I guess it's understandable that once you stop taking the antidepressants, your depression will slowly start to come back. It's good that you're going to see your doctor about it.
Yes, its normal and one of the stupid things people do.
You NEVER stop taking medication without working with your doctor. If you had told your doctor, the Dr would have told you this would happen and why.
The medication WAS working. Now that you are no longer on it the depression is coming back which means it wasn't there before.
Many medications can take as long as 4 to 6 weeks to build up in your system. You take a pill lets say 10 mg. 9 mg wash out of your system and 1 mg stays in. You will over time reach 100 percent and feel better and each pill thereafter maintains the dosage. It has all washed out of your sysyem and you are feeling the effects .
Coming off some medications can make you sick nauseous dizzy etc. In order to avoid that you slowly reduce dosage under dr supervision.
Normally you stay on your antidepressant while you are in therapy. When therapy is completed that's when you begin coming off the meds.
If the meds give you unpleasant side effects you talk to your dr and give the Dr feedback. The Dr works with you maybe to increase or decrease dosage or change time you take it or make sure it can be taken with other meds you may be on. It could mean taking a combo of drugs or changing to a new medication. But you don't make those decisions alone. You are not trained and you got yourself into a problem.
This time work with your Dr thats your responsibility. The Dr is not a mind reader so if want help, work with the Dr not against the Dr.
Good luck.