Posted by blueberry on November 4, 2006, at 10:11:44
In reply to My first one worked..., posted by Racer on November 3, 2006, at 22:07:00
My first one was paxil and it worked starting at about 2 weeks and then progressively improved a little bit more continuously over about a 3 month period. I was on it for over a year and was safely free from depression the whole time.
It was not until after I got off it (to see how I would do) that I realized a lot of the "anti-depressant" effect was actually "anti-emotion" effect, or "flat" effect. Good emotions as well as the bad ones had all been kind of flattened down and tamed to neutral. It was admittedly a whole lot better than dealing with the severe major depression I had started with.
Since moving on to other meds, such as zoloft or prozac or st johns wort and others, I've discovered they all seem to work fairly well beginning at about 2 weeks, but they all have individual characteristics and personalities that make them different from each other.
Other psychiatric meds that are not ssris, such as benzos, wellbutrin, stimulants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers, all seemed to be helpful to me in one way or another but were helpful much faster than ssris, many being quite helpful beginning the very first day.
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