Depressed and Coping: Treating Depression When Medication Fails

I have been on prozac for almost a year now, after battling depression for most of my life. Recently my psychiatrist put me on welbutrin as well, but its just not working. I tried to tell her that, but she told me to stick with it. I have been on Wellbutrin since early december, well past the 2-4 weeks that it is supposed to take to kick in. I have been getting so depressed and have been having suicidal thoughts again, not as bad, but they are there. I work out at least 45 minutes every day, on the treadmill and weights (<--some days), and I have been keeping a close eye on my diet, not completely restricting myself from my favorite things, but definitely maintaining a less is more(weight lost) kind of thing.I get out everyday, (to pick up a friends little girl from school and babysit for a couple of hours), but I am still feeling so lost and frustrated. I wish there were a fix all somewhere out there...this isn't fair to my husband and son.

christal of CA 3:11PM February 09, 2013

This article give hope to those who can't take drugs. My daughter has had horrible side effects from Zoloft and Effexor. While I have no side effects being on these drugs, it just proves that some people can't tolerate medicines for depression.

Only now there is hope of approaching it another way. Thank you

kaye of OK 7:38PM February 05, 2012

This has certainly given me a guide on what to start doing. I appreciate it. I am a combat veteran from the Viet Nam era who suffers from PTSD. I have been in treatment for about 10 years and have not seen my Psychiatrist in about six months. It is almost the anniversary of one of the tramatic events which started my eventual depression and I am aware of that.

Luther Brock of CA 8:42AM November 11, 2011

I've been dealing with depression for most of my life I'm 42 now, it started one night after my grand mom had died and my mother had went on vacation and left me and my brother home alone for the first time I couldn't have been more then 14 or 15 years old I was sitting with my brother playing a video game and it was like a ton Of life dropped on my head, I had no idea what had happened to me but the next thing I know I was laying in my bed shaking and thinking I was all alone in this world and was never the same after that, I delt with those feeling for the next couple of years not knowing what was going on with me and not really Caring either I was young till my girlfriend left me for another guy and this was someone I had been with most of my life so I moved back home and feel into a deep depression still not knowing what depression even was till I talked to my father one day on the phone he had left us when we were younger that's why we had moved into my grand moms anyway he told me that I had depression and panic attacks and I should see a doctor so I did and he gave me Paxil and it worked because I wanted it to so bad I was so tired of not being able to leave the house some days and after three years apart me and my girlfriend even got back together had two kids got married and started living the life we had always wanted till October 11 2007 when she died unexpectedly well of course im depressed and dealing with alot of stuff, fast forward three years and I'm now 42 i finally go to the doctors to get something to feel beter again my magic pill so he gives me Paxil again I take for four days and almost kill my self so I stop taking that fast and start to heal slowly from that trama then I come across this post and in reading it noticed that my doctor never even asked me any questions about my depression he just said it worked before so here you go these doctors need to stop doing this to people he almost compleatly ruin an already hurting family.

Signed

Hanging in there

Marc kelleher of NJ 1:55PM August 07, 2011