This post is concerning to me. I only take 1 low dose med, and started about 2 months ago. So far, it has helped me manage a lot of the day to day, there is no hope for me feeling (I am unemployed, facing potential foreclosure, and live so far away from my family). The meds still allow me to feel sadness, and on certain days, I can say I am feeling depressed or aniety, but it seems like it just helps smooth it over a little, my lows are not as low, and I think I'm getting myself up every morning and taking care of my business rather than letting things pile up so badly, that I am unable to face them, although I have plenty of those not dealing with THIS today days as well.
Is this a first step though, will this drug eventually start to lose it's effect and I will need more and different medications? I know when I look at my family, I see depression everywhere, and for a long time, I just felt this is life, and you just need to take it and deal with it, but with everything that has happened in the last few years, I couldn't deal with it anymore and decided to get help. Now I'm wondering if I should try to stop these meds ASAP, the idea that I will be dependednt on anything more than insulin horrifies me, Experts?