I’ll explain it like this. If you have a miserable life, antidepressants are not going to magically make you start loving it and be perfectly content and cheerful. If your life is only miserable because of clinical anxiety, depression, or other related mental disorders then it can take those away thus giving you the same chance to feel happiness as anyone else.
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Why would I have miserable life ?
True happiness is never found on an antidepressant
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I don’t think the opposite of depression is happiness; I think the opposite of depression is vitality.
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I wasn’t meaning you personally, just like whoever takes antidepressants. It’s a common misbelief that antidepressants cause happiness, and they do not, they can simply take away mental health symptoms that prevent us from experiencing happiness, or at least reduce our capability to experience it.
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Wellbutrin has definitely taken the edge off my depression. The rest, I fear, is up to me.
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Yes, the AD, Celexa, is part of the reason why I am so happy.
exactly. up to you. be the best you !!!
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I have never been depressed they help with the anxiety and sleep.
They didn’t make me happy. But with them I was able to be happy with some effort.
I was put on an anti-depressant two weeks ago, and I haven’t noticed a change in mood. But I wasn’t sad to begin with.
I swear I think I might know some people who think ADs are the opposite of all you said.
It is nice to hear what is more likely the truth.
Why were you put on an antidepressant then? Was this for nehative symptoms
My anti-depressant helps me. Without it I go to dark depths. It’s not a cure-all. I still need to go to counseling to help sort out my issues. But, yes they help me to feel happy.
No they don’t make you happy.
They just make you not unhappy.
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I was put on them to try and address my lack of motivation and other symptoms.
People’s experiences with them vary.
For me: no, they did not make me happy, they made me indifferent. Indifferent to my painful thoughts and scary circumstances, but also indifferent to all other things. I was artificially “happy” and active, but I lost the capability to experience important things, like empathy or mourning about the loss of someone important or genuine happiness or euphoria or being touched by something. I did not like them at all. And when I quit them I became psychotic as a withdrawal symptom, which I wasn’t before starting them. I wish I’d never gone on them.
My friend however, says because the AD takes away her deep depression and feelings of sadness and darkness, she has more room to experience love and happiness. She wants to never get off them.
They make me very manic and psychotic.
No, they don’t work on me either… They even lift my bad interior sensations and lift my anxiety. I changed for the bad in my personality with this illness, so I should work on my own on this. Ads don’t work…
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