I am too scared to take my anti-depressants

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GP prescribed them to me on Monday and i am too scared to take them.

I have PND and finally plucked up the courage to ask for anti d's (have been seeing my dr for months about pnd but we both agreed to try and cope without medication).

I am scared of the side effects and how they're going to make me feel.

Im on 20mg of Fluoxetine (sp?)

Am frightened! Please help

Oh fuck off Enid we agree on loads.

fwiw i also agree with you aloha.

however, i agree with you on almost everything except religion.

and you DIDN'T post on my goddelusion thread which i hauled myself off a sunlounger in the s of france to start.

x

Ah didn't see that one! (probably for the best, eh? ) am on holiday on Saturday and it can't come around quickly enough!

lol - "genuine chemical imbalance" - spoken like someone who has the faintest idea what they're talking about. Scientists still aren't in agreement about what exactly causes PND, so I'm not sure how custardo gets to speak with such breezy authority. Perhaps she knows something they don't.

As for other forms of depression, the "chemical imbalance" theory was first proposed back in the 1960s, but now most authorities agree that the causes of depression are far more complex, despite what drug companies would have us believe.

I was given Quetiapine to start on Monday and I'm so scared to take them.. I've heard them make you super sleepy and kinda lightheaded or something..

I have BPD and my anxiety for taking medications, drinking anything that makes me feel 'not in control' I guess sends it out of wack. Every time I go to take it I get too scared and just think 'tomorrow' but it's been a week now and I haven't started them.

I have a 4 month old son and I have a partner as well who can obviously help if I'm too drowsy and whatnot but it's just so bad

Can I have some people who take it give me some reassurance that I'm going to be okay? I obviously know I am but the anxiety is just so bad that I just can't sometimes if you know what I mean?...

I feel like I'm insane with all my emotions and it's so hard

Look at it this way, OP. Right now you feel shit. If you don't try the pills, you continue to feel increasingly shit.

If you try them they might make you feel shit in a different way which will be easily cured by stopping them. Or they could make you feel a lot better. 50/50 chance and if you don't like them you just stop.

I've had 4 ADs before settling on one. I didn't get on with the others, had too many side effects so I just stopped and tried a different one.