General / Mental Health Support Thread

[Marklr]

Has anyone ever had an increased dosage of an antidepressant and felt worse?
This last week has been one of the toughest of my life. Absolutely ducking horrendous.
Though so far I've avoided hospitalisation or self harm.

They doubled my Mirtazapine dose recently.

I think it's worth mentioning that if my experience is anything to go by you can't just feel better by taking antidepressants. You should combine it with regular exercise, good diet, sensible sleeping and the rest of it.
Which also includes less time doom scrolling.

I recently had my citalopram upped from 20mg to 30. I think it's starting to help...less feelings of doom. Even with City's recent form, I thought: "oh well...it's just like the good old bad times".

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Has anyone ever had an increased dosage of an antidepressant and felt worse?
This last week has been one of the toughest of my life. Absolutely ducking horrendous.
Though so far I've avoided hospitalisation or self harm.

They doubled my Mirtazapine dose recently.

I think it's worth mentioning that if my experience is anything to go by you can't just feel better by taking antidepressants. You should combine it with regular exercise, good diet, sensible sleeping and the rest of it.
Which also includes less time doom scrolling.

Hopefully things will improve for you after another week or so of adjusting to the new dose. If problems persist, I’d speak to your GP about reducing your dose and possibly consider trialling a different medication. Personally, mirtazapine just made me ravenous.