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29th September 2013

Will going on depression meds put me in a zombie like state?

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Question by Ezra Alix Turner: Will going on depression meds put me in a zombie like state?
I think I’m depressed, not very depressed, I go in and out of moods and I cried about 2 times this week. I wanted to avoid depression medicine, as my mom said that it makes a person zombie like, and she didn’t want me on them. Now I’m at the end of my wit, I’m tired of this shit, I feel I need the medication. But does it really make a person Zombie like, or want to commit suicide?

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Answer by Jerry
Others said: by perfecti… Member since: http://au.answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_…
I haven’t tried zoloft, but since the very first lexapro tablet I ever took, I have never had an orgasm again. And I came off it a year ago. ~~~ Prozack numbed me but now im emotionless? so my meds were changed and i got put on prozac and lamictal im numb and have no feelings accept for the occ. low-bottom-pit feeling which comes but leaves. Now i’m emotion-less. I don’t like it. I just want to fee OK. Captain ?etard™ ~~~ I feel like my medication is making me cold and emotionless?
I started taking Geodon and pristiq about 4 months ago and ever since then I just feel so emotionless. Like I can’t feel anything at all. I just feel like I’m drifting through life with no love and no purpose. I don’t know if it is the med’s or not but I suspect that they do have something to do with it. I didn’t take either of my them today and I gotta say that I’ve felt like sh*t all day. I did cry for the first time in a long time tho and that felt good. Anyway, would you recommend that I wean off of them slowly or just quit them as soon as possible. I’m just so sick of feeling nothing and always being in a mental fog. Any advice is appreciated. I don’t feel any highs or lows either. No happiness, sadness or anything. ~~~ by Ferris. I wish I knew. They ruined me. I want to sue. ~~~ by Rwrwrwr This is my opinion and what I would did and did do… As soon as the side effects were worse than the depression I stopped. I think the meds themselves have made me worse. Sexual side effects ruin your life. They dont tell you how important that is. Its also common that after going off SSRI’S that youll have suicidal thoughts. When therapy doesnt work you feel hopeless. ~~~ The drugs used to treat depression have wide range of side-effects. Those side-effects are ranging from extreme weight gain to sexual coldness (which is as serious as to bring couples on the verge of divorce) and irreversable parkinson like neurological diseases. Although psychiatrists often mention that they have drugs to prevent some of those side effects people should always bear in mind that these drugs prescribed for side-effects of antidepressants too have their own individual side-effects and this’ll eventually become a real dead-end street for them.??????? Member since: 22 February 2008 » Medication for anxiety……please read? Hey, I was on 200mg of Zoloft for anxiety and OCD for about a year. 2 months ago, I cut my dose in half. It feels like the past week, my anxiety is slowly creeping back into my life. Would it really happen this long after I decreased my dose? Why would it take 2 months for my anxiety to come back? ~~~

Medicine makes me tired and zombish…. I just don;t want to be taking it….but this anxiety sucks too. by SundaeRo… Member since: 26 February 2009 ~~~ I took Zoloft for a while and it really made me happy. I knew that I wasn’t really happy that it was just the medicine. Unfortunately I had problems with hives from it and had to quit. Remember that all meds affect everyone different.
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I did try going to a doctor and getting on meds for depression and anxiety. I didnt like the way they made me feel… like i felt numb. they didnt make the problems go away that made me feel that way… ~~~ It was in therapy where anti-depressants entered my life, and Prozac drained my emotions. I’m innately a very expressive person, and being robbed of everything: my laughter, tears, ability to scream, it destroyed me. Marisa : ) Member since: 31 October 2007 ~~~ Moonrise Member since: 14 February 2008. What are natural treatments for depression that work?
I refuse to take anti-depressants, been on them once, never again. Ever since coming off them I have not been the same, my depression has gotten even worse. I can no longer feel any excitement, enthusiasm or motivation for anything. I am wondering what are effective, natural treatments that work. http://au.answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=AqIA1b9eFyWdMJPElrZSsWcW6Qt.;_ylv=3?show=y1ULvNIyaa -Movie Lvr-

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1 On September 29th, 2013, gardensallday said:
Sometimes people who take antidepressants just don’t care about anything anymore, and perhaps that is what she is referring to. Nowadays, (probably because antidepressants aren’t working out very well~!) antipsychotics are being extremely overprescribed, so now they are being used for ever-milder conditions, including depression. Those drugs have a good chance of making you zombie like, and cause a bunch of other serious problems (abilify and seroquel are common ones in this class of medication). It turns out that almost all people who get better on ssri antidepressants got better due to placebo effect, or they naturally cycled out of their depression (would have gotten better even if they did nothing). google antidepressants placebo kirsch for the most famous study to figure this out, but now many more studies are coming out by other authors showing that antidepressants really aren’t very effective drugs for most people, and especially ineffective for mild to moderate depression. try asking to see a therapist instead, if you are female, pay attention to whether or not PMS could be part of the problem (no kidding) and it’s possible this is teen hormone stuff and not depression at all.
generic tips:
Could a prescribed or over the counter medication be causing or worsening your depression? Many meds are culprits, including birth control, blood pressure, pain, acne, antipsychotic, anxiety (benzos) or sleeping medications, and also alcohol and illicit drugs and MANY others.

Hypothyroidism is a depression mimic. Sleep disorders like sleep apnea, or interrupted sleep (crying baby, barking dog), or burning the candle on both ends, can cause depression.

If your depression is worse in winter, you may have seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or your depression could be partly seasonal. Use a light box (10,000 Lux (light intensity) at about 20” – about $ 300 online, you don’t need full spectrum, it needs a UV filter, Sunray is a good brand).Also take 1000 to 2000 IU of Vitamin D in winter – if you live in the north, you are deficient in this vitamin, so you may as well see if it helps.

Try meditation like progressive muscle relaxation or guided imagery. See The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook by Edmund Bourne. Free 15 minute guided imagery at healthjourneys.com.

Go out with friends, & if you don’t have any, join a club e.g. hobby club, bowling league & MAKE yourself go. “Isolating” makes depression worse!

Exercise 1/2 hour a day, & anytime you feel depressed or anxious. LOTS OF RESEARCH SUPPORTS THIS as the most effective depression treatment of all.

Insomnia?: Go to bed & get up the same time each day, even weekends. Don’t use your bedroom to watch TV, read or use the computer. Don’t do stuff that revs you up before bed, like exercising & using the computer. Light from computer screens & TV wakes you up. Blue light is the worst offender – dim the lights and use an old-fashioned incandescent bulb the last hour. Make the bedroom very dark, even cover up the clock. Use a noise machine (makes wave sounds etc.) to cover up disturbing sounds. Avoid caffeine after noon. Try soundsleeping.com for free relaxing sounds.

Put colorful, happy things around the house. Do nice things for yourself. Make a list of things that make you happy, like: bread fresh from the oven, the crisp sound of a saltine cracker breaking, fresh sheets on the bed, touching frost on the windowpane, etc. Read that list when you are down. Use comforting scents. I like vanilla & cloves.

Work on time management if you are overwhelmed. Cut back on other responsibilities so you can spend more time with friends & family. Ask for help with chores.

Spend more time with your pet, if you have one.

DON’T listen to sad music! Listen to upbeat stuff- same with movies & novels.

DISTRACT yourself. Read a novel, watch a comedy, go out with friends, play cards or a video game, whatever keeps your mind busy.

Volunteer. Helping others makes you feel better about yourself & you make a difference, too. If you are religious, your religion may help keep you involved in the community.

Put a half-smile on your face. Changing your expression is proven to help change mood.

Cognitive Behavioral therapy is the most effective kind of counseling. Try free computerized CBT at moodgym.anu.edu.au. Also, if you have an abuse history, it is likely to be a major cause of your depression.

posted on September 29th, 2013 at 1:45 am
2 On September 29th, 2013, Marcus said:
Well Turner these medicines come with side effects. They take weeks to kick in and if the side effects are intense then you go back to your doctor and have the medicines dose lowered or changed for another. It’s trial and error. The most important thing to know about depression is that it takes more than pills to cure it. It takes counseling and or help from family and friends in conjunction with medicine (if you choose to take them).

posted on September 29th, 2013 at 2:24 am
3 On September 29th, 2013, Mr. Ed said:
Ive been on Prozac and Wellbutrin, and currently im on Wellbutrin only. I would’t say it puts you in a “zombie” like state, a lot of people, shows, moves, etc give people the idea that anti-depressants make you completly apathetic and zombie-like but this is greatly exaggerated. From my experience, the meds make you happier if you need them, but if you don’t need them you might feel less happy or slighty “zombie like”. Its like they bring you to a certain middle ground of happiness, and if you are below this level the meds will help you but if you are above this level the meds will make you feel worse. I stopped the prozac because of the sexual side effects and I though it might have been making me feel worse but after being off it for a few months I don’t feel any different.

All I can say is good luck, these drugs work so differently for different people so the odds are you are going to have to try a few different drugs and or combinations of drugs before you find one that works, and since they can take a month to start working this period of finding the right med can be very long and frustrating, but its worth it if you were depressed as I was.

Another way I can describe the meds is as if they take away the lows, meaning they make it so you dont feel depressed, but they also make it so that you cant experience the highs either, I think thats where the term zombie-like came from, so basically this can be good if you are really depressed most of the time, because it would be better be be stuck on a middle ground of emotion than to be depressed, but if you are only depressed sometimes and happy other, it may seem like the meds are making you more depressed. My advice, try them and dont give up if one med doesnt work. You may find a good med that works or you may find that your better off without meds but either way you can always taper off the meds and go back to where you were, so IMO the potential benefits ouweigh the time and effort that goes into finding a good anti depressant

GOOD LUCK DUDE, I know what your going through. One more thing is definitly see a PSYCOLOGIST before you see a PSYCHIATRIST. The reason is a lot of psychiatrist prescribe meds right away and this can be bad, a psycologist cant prescribe meds so they focus on talk thereapy to make you better which is whats gonna help you the most in the long run, and I;m not saying your not depressed but a lot of people think they are and after seeing a psycologist for a while they realize they really arent and avoid the hasssle of medication. Either way the best route is to start with a psycologist and if you arent making ANY progress then ask him/her for a reccomendation for a good psychiatrist.

posted on September 29th, 2013 at 2:33 am