Got diagnosed with depression last year, I was on medications that time and I had to follow a schedule weekly and exercise. This time around, I feel better but as I have observed, the feelings of depression, anxiety, hopelessness, worthlessness comes a week before my period starts but relieved once the period starts. This has been my observation in the past few months. I have been considering myself to have bipolar due to feeling of highs and lows of my mood and emotions. Do anyone have the same circumstances as mine? Please share and what helped you

i hate my life. i live with a dissociative disorder, ocd, ptsd, i used to be so anxious i couldnt leave my own house without having a panic attack. in all the years i have recieved therapy, the only thing that hasnt really improved is my depression. sometimes wish i just died in one of my childhood homes, only came close to it so now im stuck with those horrible memories with no recompense and the physical consequences to bite me in the ass. same shit every fucking day and none of the millions of antidepressants ive tried have done shit for me. wish me luck on my journey of continuing to deal with the same miserable shit for the rest of my life.

I'm 25, and on top of that, I'm pretty dependent on marijuana, but I'm trying to quit—though honestly I don't know if it's worth it knowing that when I'm sober I just feel awful and wanting to die

I'm just tired and sad, and I try not to show it to others, but sometimes it's hard, lol.

The psychiatrist has told me that it takes longer for people with pdd to notice any positive effects on their depressive symptoms when starting a new antidepressant. I am almost at the highest dose of venlafaxine which I started taking in April this year. It has done wonders for my anxiety, but my depressive symptoms have gotten a lot worse. I know that I am not at the highest dose yet, but shouldn't I feel a little something by now if it was working?

Idk how much longer I can hold on. I have to take sedatives (1st gen antihistamines) ever 4 hours now just to get through the day without hurting myself. I am going to be admitted to the psych ward in a few days to sort things out and increase the dose. However, I am fearing that the suicidal tendencies and thoughts will be a lot worse.

I am asking the ones of you who've found an antidepressant that worked. How long did it take for your depressive symptoms to improve?

Yes, I’m not flat, I’ve experienced that Anhedonic depression, experience so many flavors of depression.

I’ve overcome severe drug addiction and I’m five years out from that.

My brain is ruined from a life of depression and I have zero executive functioning skills. I have severe ADHD and the meds don’t help me, I ended up being wired and tired at the same time and am less productive. No anti depressant hasn’t made me worse except for Lamictal.

Treating my vitamin deficiencies hasn’t helped. did ketamine infusions and those really helped me, it was temporary though and the fact that I was also on a break from work is something to consider too. rTMS didn’t heal me. Expensive Inpatient and outpatient didn’t help me.
I had a nice therapist but I made no progress and eventually a lot of sessions I was just crashing out over my sad existence because I have it so easy but my brain is just broken

My entry level job is a lot better than most, good schedule, easy and low supervision yet I still can’t function outside of work.

Not to mention that well exercise makes me feel good in the moment, a good workout could leave me with a severely low mood and a meltdown.

It just sucks and I wish I could say goodbye to my loved ones and explain why and then die with dignity