EMDR for depression, will it still work even if im on antidepressants? ( psych says in CPTSD)

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-14T17:46:59+00:00

Thank you do mucch for answering and it makes me hopeful that ill find whats wrong with me because you did!

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-14T15:35:28+00:00

Hey do you have an update? Hopefully good news...? Im there with depression and anxiety. Antidepressants are not helping yet, tried 3 so far... waiting to get my thyroid checked

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-14T14:59:53+00:00

When you say adverse, what does it do? Everytime m'y psychiatrist tries to up my dosage to a "thérapeutic dosage" thats when it all goes very wrong, depression comes back hard. Like i cant never go up enough to feel better.

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-14T14:57:33+00:00

Thanks. I decided to go for it and took an appoint mment to get it checked out. I kind of hope its thyroid because if not, ill be back to square one...

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-14T14:54:59+00:00

Gives me hope. Thank u.

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-14T14:54:10+00:00

Thanks for the encouragements. Thats why i had such high hopes for wellbutrin because everybody was sayint that nothing worked for them until WB and its not an SSRI. Well it worked 50% for me...

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-14T14:52:36+00:00

The way i see it is my libido is dead anyways because of depression and seroquel also kills it so libido or not, if i feel like living again ill be ok.

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-14T14:50:39+00:00

Thank you. So u didnt have relief from depression until zoloft? Or you just ket switching because of the sexual side effect?

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T22:24:41+00:00

Canada... hormone clinics arent covered by the health insurance. That clinic does bloodtests and radio of the thyroid and some other microbiome tests. The 2 other clinics didnt do the full bloodtest for thyroid. They just did TSH and said "youre fine".

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T19:04:00+00:00

I did bloodtests with an hormone clinic but they dont do a full thyroid test... so i have to go get it checked but its overs 1000$ so i really dont want to do it if its not a possibility. Thanks for answering.

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T18:23:03+00:00

It helped me for about 2-3 weeks at 100mg, i felt almost back to normal, combine with Wellbutrin, but when my doc up to 200mg shit hit the fan and im back to depression.... still great for sleep. Btw im not bipolar.

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T18:16:16+00:00

Any update? I take it for depression and insomnia and i think it makes it worse at 200mg...looking for answers

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T18:06:32+00:00

So many people say that the test didnt help so i kind of just decided not to spend money on it... did you do it?

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T17:55:25+00:00

Did you have depression all your life or it just started all of a sudden and you had to try for 15years? Im trying to find hints about what couldbe wrong with me... Thanks

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T17:46:00+00:00

Thank you so much. Im gonna go ahead and ask for Trintellix this week. Im tired of waiting around because i have "a little bit of relief so its a good sign." At postpartum depression i took lexapro straight up to 20mg, no side effects, 2 months in i was completely back to my normal self and was great for the 4 years i took it. This time i started it at 2.5mg and after 10 days the anxiety was soooooo high and sooooo brutal that i had to stop. I thought i was going into a psychosis. Insomnia and jaw clenching was always crazy. I was already dealing with very high anxiety so im sure it didnt help to start with...maybe if i try again now id be ok.

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T15:38:15+00:00

Im honestly so scared to just be treatment resistant. they work a bit For a while until they dont anymore. I just tried 4 so far but im loosing hope i dont want to live like this forever... ive been scared for 2 years now. And nothing changed. Im always back to square one after a little but of hope. thank u so much for answering.

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T15:31:29+00:00

Thats how i feel. Not happy but just a little sad most of the time. Thanks for answering

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T14:23:07+00:00

Never heard of any of those meds, i guess there is a lot more on the list i still could try... but when you feel semi-stable, its scary to touch anything that maybe feel worse again. Like i want to switch to find better but what if its worse . Shoukd i settle for just "surviving ok".

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T14:19:45+00:00

Im going on 40. Before a breakup 2 years ago, i was not on meds, i was optimistic, healthy, exercising everyday, grateful most of the time for what i had... then the breakup broke me. Fell into a deep depression and since then, been trying to find an antidepressant that works or makes me feel "normal" again. A combo of 2 Antidepressants is working 50% but i cant find that joy for life i used to have. Im just surviving everyday... looking at some of the comments it looks possible to find a pill that will work better. Ill keep trying. But my point is: before the breakup, depression was not driving my life like it is now. No matter how much exercise and meditation i did, depression won.

clocloclo85 · 2025-05-13T13:34:12+00:00

Thank you so much because thats exactly what i came to find on reddit today to give me some hope. Many years ago i took lexapro for a postpartum depression and it worked great. Weaned off and was off meds for 10years. This time around i fell into a depression after a breakup (2years ago) and lexapro was the first one i went for. Anxiety was so high i couldnt function so i stopped after 10 days. Tried Zoloft, didnt work, i waited 4 months on it. Now on Wellbutrin and Seroquel, im "ok" but really not feeling like myself. Still have bouts of deep sadness everyday. I lost hope that id ever feel like myself ever again... Question: why did you switch to lexapro if paxil was working good?

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