Is there any antidepressant which can make you sleep? I already took my prescription for 2 months, how can i add an antidepressant? Thanks a lot in advance 
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I Just told my doctor I was feeling down (what I meant was I have chemically-induced depression thanks to [blank] medication and I’m sick of it)
I said it very normally but she could tell I was dead serious.
She promptly prescribed me a (really nice) anti-dep
The rest is history
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Hi @unique
Do you feel better?
I would really need an AD
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Amitriptyline has helped
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Sure. Some antidepressants really help with insomnia. Go old school - mirtazapine is even sold under brand name Remeron at ultra-low doses as sleep aid.
For depression of course dosing would be higher.
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I feel great.
I highly advise an AP and AD combo for sz patients that are already stable
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Mirtazapine is meant to be sedative
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remeron is, as others have said, useful for improving sleep especially in people who are depressed. it can also cause a lot of weight gain, so its also used in underweight patients. trazodone is probably even more common, though its almost always used at sleep aid dosages rather than anti depressant dosages which would be higher. some of the tricyclic antidepressants can be quite sedating too
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`A+s a rule of thumb I’d say an antidepressants aren’t sedating. I take mine in the mornings because it gives me a little energy. They can be great things. Depression can often feed the negatives and it’s a cruel world.
Depression is common for schizophrenics. It really is and clinical depression needs chemical help!
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I believe my depression is also because of medication. I am awaiting AD. Is yours helping. I think we are both on invega if I recall correctly.
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I am wondering the same thing @anon51414962 . I hope I hear something today. If not it shall be next week. This is a useful thread
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@Qwerty I think it’s like 70% of schizophrenics suffer depression. That is serious depression which isn’t like losing your father or cat.
It’s not the antipsychotic. That is a different system chemically. Depression is noted on the serotonin spectrum. It’s a different system but somehow related!
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Thanks @rogueone because right now I really feel like withdrawing from my medication so anything helps me stay on it I guesss is good.
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It’s worth investigating. Most of us suffer depression and that often feeds negatives. It’s a viscious cycle! Ask your shrink or doctor. Depression is my most serious symptom. It’s not the paranoia although I do get that!
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I sleep better since taking sertraline, even though it’s not a sedating one. My sleep is still rubbish thanks to the aripiprazole, but a combo of zopiclone and sertraline helps me sleep a bit better.
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I believe trazodone was originally used as an anti-depressant but now it’s primarily a sleep aid because…well…it makes you sleepy.
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Mirtazapine & Mianserin are ADs that are meant to help with sleep, the older TCAs are usually also able to do this but with a far more unfavorable side-effect profile. Trazodone is also a possibility.
I’m on Mirtazapine, works perfect for me.
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Seroquel 100-200 mg
Mood and sleep
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lol, You are kidding yourself when you think that dopamine antagonists don’t cause depression which most aps cause. Mixing up a serotonin agonist and the lack of dopamine as a way to boost depression is the misconception.
You can take an AD and regulate mood but won’t necessarily be happy. An antidepressant makes you not care about being happy or sad, It makes you not care about it. The antipsychotic makes you unhappy as it takes away pleasure.
It is true that the ADs and APs work on different parts of the brain, but in a different way to how you presume. Not caring about being happy or sad is different to lack of happiness which is how antidepressants work, and how 2nd generation antipsychotics work.
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