I take an antidepressant and it’s helping but i’m not happy. Reason I ask is I met an amphetamine addict in hospital and they gave him 3 antidepressants to stop him using as he said he was using because of depression. By the end he said he was happy. Do you take antidepressants and are you happy? Should I be asking for more?
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From my understanding ap dosent make you happy, they suppress the saddnes
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ADs aren’t supposed to make you happy it’s a common misconception. They’re supposed to take away your mood problems so you’re at baseline and thus have the same chance to be happy as anyone else.
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Antidepressants can help you think more positive and can make you feel well
For me I still have issues with schizophrenia that I have to deal with which makes me unhappy despite antidepressants
I cannot cope without my antidepressants
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I’m starting an anti depressant soon.
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Antidepressant Zoloft 50 mg was the final piece of the puzzle to me
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They don’t make me happy but they stop me from feeling too ■■■■. I once talked to a guy who took a med that he said made him happy, but I can’t remember the name of it.
I once was on high dose amisupiride and high dose of antidepressants and for a while I was really "happy " I would sit up till early hours reading every detail of a magazine I felt very high but that’s not real
My Sertraline 200mg just makes me level. So im not unhappy. Im not overly cheerful tho. Like @anon73425833 said. I think it just suppresses it for me. Im doing “Ok” tho so cant complain…
I think ap and ad reteach the mind to think in normal parameters.
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Antidepressants don’t make you happy, they just make it possible to feel happiness. You still have to do the work, do things to make yourself happy. If you take an antidepressant expecting it to make you happy you are going to be very disappointed. I think that’s the problem a lot of people have who say their antidepressant doesn’t work.
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I take AD(Depression), AA(Anxiety) and AP(Psychotic). I wouldn’t say they make you happy but you are more capable at feeling happy when something good goes your way if that’s the right way to word it.
I have to disagree with everyone. Sorry. If you’re not happy you should try a different ad. Try Zoloft. It works great for me. No matter what I did, or what happened, no matter how great it was I just couldn’t feel happy. Now I can feel and it’s great. I can also feel sadness now too, and anger. It’s like it woke me up. I like it a lot. I would definitely change ad’s until you get one that really makes a big difference for you, you’ll know when you finally get one that’s working. Then you’ll be like OHHHH that’s the one.
It would be nice if there were an antidepressant that not only eliminated depression but also made a person feel very happy! But, alas, there is no such medicine. Antidepressants act to eliminate or reduce depression. But, they don’t go so far as to produce real happiness.
Roughly 2 out of 3 people with the specific illness major depressive disorder (MDD) will respond to the first antidepressant they are treated with though this does not mean that all of their symptoms will resolve. Not all depression is MDD. The more severe the MDD is the more likely it is to respond to an antidepressant. Roughly 90% of people with MDD will partially respond to a medicine.
Antidepressants do not work for everyone and even when they work at the beginning of treatment, they may not continue to work.
To address your question: No, I don’t take antidepressants, but I have in the past.
Taking antidepressants and not happy.
If you think of cheerful moments, temporary happiness and such, yes i feel that occasionally.
But deep down, nope, i know the black scrabble inside of me won’t ever go away.
it’s how it is.
I was taking the highest dose of my antidepressant that you could safely take, was I happy? Nope. But it was effective for keeping the depression at bay.
wellbutrin does not make me happy but it makes life worth living
I once took Zoloft. I was in heaven. All I could think about was how I had managed to live beforehand without such a heavenly state of mind.
Before that time, I could attend a family or friend party and have a beer or two, and end up in a shut down state of mind, while every one else was having a good time.
But after taking Zoloft, and having a couple of beers, I was suddenly alive. I could have a damn good conversation with anybody. If it came to opinions being shared, I would be the winner every time.
But sadly, my brain began to counter act the benefits, and that was that.
It was sort of like in the movie “Awakenings” where patients were given L-Dopa and this brought them out of being mere vegetables. Sadly for them, the brain fought back and the L-Dopa became ineffective.
I was also in a semicoma for 8 years. I know what it is like to feel the breeze again as one stands in front of a fan, to be able to smell flowers once again, to be able to taste food once again. Take everything away, and when it comes back, it is heavenly. Have it all the time, and it is almost nothing at all.
I’m on one of the first antidepressant available. An MAOI called Parnate. It doesn’t make me happy but it does keep my suicidal ideation at bay. On Zoloft I was “happy” but always felt it was too superficial and drug induced.
I take Lexapro but it doesn’t make me happy; it keeps my anxiety under control.