Has anyone found AD's make them worse?

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I've been on them for years. Changed after a crisis this time last year to venlafaxine and mirtazapine both at high doses. But I had another crisis in summer, and now I seem to be going downhill again. So, I'm either getting unwell, or the drugs are making me unwell, or I just can't deal with general life. I never used to have so many bad patches, or so severely. Has anyone else had this issue? I know that it would be daft not to take medication but it is getting difficult to take it IYSWIM as I'm finding life difficult and feel like they are making it worse. I just keep getting doses increased and I feel better for a few weeks and then it all starts slowly unravelling again. I feel like I'm an alien and only I can see life for how it really is. Maybe it's the drugs?

Don't forget we are close ti mid winter.... Very depressing lack of light..

I have been on ads for donkeys years, mostly on the same dose. Sometimes at particularly tough times I've needed an increased dose but it is possible, in my experience, to go to too high a dose and then feel as awful as on too low a dose. I've had to experiment to get the right dose, with a small change up or down making a big difference.

Perhaps consider/ discuss with your dr whether your dose might be too high?

I don't seem to get affected by winter- last terrible patch was midsummer. It's interesting that too high a dose can make you feel awful wrongtrouser I think I'll have to bring it up...

They always made me worse. Would get horrific side effects, anxiety, weight loss. Actually overdosed twice with ADs. Twisted depressed logic told me the more I took the happier I'd be. Actually was just really sick.

I wouldn't try them again but it's all personal, everyone's different.