Posted by poser938 on October 24, 2013, at 19:27:09
In reply to Re: Do antidepressants worsen your depression? » poser938, posted by doxogenic boy on October 24, 2013, at 9:57:43
I took Mirapex off-label to help with persisting numbing of my emotions 2 years after I took Effexor. Took the Mirapex daily for about 6 weeks. It was slightly beneficial for the 6 weeks began the last day of taking it, my ability to feel pleasure was drastically reduced. Along with that came extreme apathy and feeling extremely depressed. I stopped taking Mirapex and ordered Tianeptine, which I took occasionally in the past with benefit to my mood with a single dose. But this time taking it, there was no benefit to my mood with a single dose. I took it chronically this time with my mood becoming even worse after 10 days. Then on to Ritalin that my pdoc prescribed. I took one dose and felt a slight benefit but my mood became worse and worse as time sent by with it in my system.
After all this, it was as if each unnatural increase in dopamine stimulation just worked to put my brains own dopamine functioning out of business. Since its natural for your brain to try to keep homeostasis in response to turbocharging the neurotransmitter systems with psychiatric meds. Of course this is described much more technically in articles on Pubmed.
But, I think my brain is sensitive meds because I had Viral Encephalitis when I was 12 in 2001 that resulted in a 5 day coma. After I woke up from it every muscle in my body was extremely weak and I just laid there drooling on myself. But over the weeks I fully recovered. But then, going through my teens I experienced mild depression, but was a fully functional person. Started taking psychiatric meds when I was 17 only to basically have my brain assaulted by them, and my emotions haven't been the same since
My slightly educated hypothesis is that when a med alters my brains neuroplasticity, it sees no reason to go back to normal once I stop the med. I don't know bow common this is in others.
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