My antidepressant medication isn't working at all! Help!?
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So for about five years i've been depressed and cut myself. My mom saw the cuts around Feb. of this year and i was immediately sent to a therapist. I went there for a while until she decided to put me on medication - zoloft was the first thing (25mg). After about four months taking that i still wasn't any better. Side effects: upset stomach, headaches, dizzyness, loss of apetite, etc. Then i got put on 50mg of zoloft. Now, i have gone back to my ways before taking medicine at all. I'm scared to tell my mom and my therapist and my anxiety is so much worse now because it's not working as i've heard it is supposed to. Please help me at least figure out how to tell one of them what's wrong or how i can just cope with how it is now? Just something because i'm lost.
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betsy0603 dark_spirit
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I would approach your mom and say that the antidepressant isn't working, simple as that. It just isn't working.
The depression and cutting are about something. Can you share what your depressive thoughts are about? Because that is the beginning of change, of moving towards healing.
dark_spirit betsy0603
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We kind of talked about why i was doing it and the few triggers that i wanted to share at that time but it was hard to talk about so we didn't spend much time on it. Telling my mom is even worse than the things in my head. She's done too much for me and i'm scared of hurting her again and again because i'm not like my perfect older sisters.
Mumsie_pops dark_spirit
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dark_spirit Mumsie_pops
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Mumsie_pops dark_spirit
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I would definitely go back to the docs. Would your mum be able to go with you. She sounds very caring & im sure she wouldn't want you to go thro this agony alone. You may need an increase in dose. 50,100 mg didn't work for me. I'm now on 150mg & felt great until our family cat of 17 years was put to sleep a couple of days ago. I now feel at rock bottom. Hope you get this sorted. Xx