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Why is the answer always antidepressants????

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Feelingcrazy123 · 20/07/2023 08:29

So I got referred to the mental health for an assessment - after a brief chat it came down to “cycles of depression”.

after 9 month wait I start CBT - doing daily diary, thoughts logs, feelings logs, gratitude logs etc etc etc.

I’ve had CBT and counselling a number of times over the past 10 years or so for sexual abuse, bereavement, depression and anxiety. I’ve even paid for private counselling.

im currently 28 weeks pregnant and having very intrusive thoughts and visions of my 3YO son getting very hurt. They are very graphic and very upsetting. Anxiety is through the roof but working through that and my mood is very much a massive rollercoaster. I’ve been referred to perinatal mental health team - they’ve refused me as “I don’t meet their criteria”.

my mood is all over the place - this has been like this for years so not due to pregnancy. I’m so up and down and very happy and very sad.

I just don’t know what is wrong with me and no one seems to want to explore it apart from talking therapies and medication.

I get that antidepressants will help but they won’t solve what ever is that matter with me. They won’t fix the problem only the symptoms. I don’t want to mask my issues I want to sort them out

AIBU to per-sue this and keep trying to get someone somewhere to help me figure this out.

YABU - go back on antidepressants and give up trying to figure it all out

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Unsure754 · 23/07/2023 09:11

Stompythedinosaur · 22/07/2023 11:05

But medication and talking therapies are the two treatments for depression? What else would you like to have offered?

The idea of anti-depressants "not curing depression and only masking the symptoms" really isn't right. They are acting much like insulin to a diabetic. They are replacing things your body is lacking, to make you healthy. They are curing depression, but you have to keep taking them.

I do wonder whether a different talking therapy might be better for you - perhaps a trauma therapy like EMDR or trauma focused CBT might help with the underlying causes of the depression.

Genuinely interested, if the anti depressants are replacing something missing ,the body lacks ,why do people tend to come off them after a time?
I have never been on AD but have always wondered this.
If something physiologically is missing wouldn’t the treatment be life long or do the ads somehow train the body to begin producing for itself?

montecarlo7 · 25/07/2023 00:13

Stompythedinosaur · 22/07/2023 11:05

But medication and talking therapies are the two treatments for depression? What else would you like to have offered?

The idea of anti-depressants "not curing depression and only masking the symptoms" really isn't right. They are acting much like insulin to a diabetic. They are replacing things your body is lacking, to make you healthy. They are curing depression, but you have to keep taking them.

I do wonder whether a different talking therapy might be better for you - perhaps a trauma therapy like EMDR or trauma focused CBT might help with the underlying causes of the depression.

This is not correct. Anti depressants are not like insulin at all. The body is not lacking anything and they do not cure depression - they mask symptoms of a deeper problem.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/292713#:~:text=The%20idea%20that%20depression%20is,editorial%20article%20in%20The%20BMJ.

It is now known that depression is usually linked to inflammation in the body and is often symptomatic of a wider problem https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-11-200

So depression is an inflammatory disease, but where does the inflammation come from? - BMC Medicine

Background We now know that depression is associated with a chronic, low-grade inflammatory response and activation of cell-mediated immunity, as well as activation of the compensatory anti-inflammatory reflex system. It is similarly accompanied by inc...

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-11-200

CarpetSlipper · 25/07/2023 00:21

Have you considered PMDD?

This website has some useful information IAPMD.org

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