i need my anti-depressants.

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i've been diagnosed with as. what works best for me is antidepressants and adhd medication to make me happy and focus on the tasks at hand and not think about my bad vision of the world. i have been on lexapro, works well, almost too well that it distorts my vision of reality and makes me change who i am.

whats another good anti d i should try.

If it's working, I don't see why would would change it. However I'm on Paxil (Though I need to up the dosage since I'm getting depressed again), and it's a very good one for some people.

I was on Lexapro along with my ADHD Meds last year, but like you mentioned, Lexapro made me not give a care about anything. Nothing bothered or stressed me (like homework or not going to class). My grades started to suffer and I got off of Lexapro. I'm currently on Fluoxetine (generic Prozac). I'm now back to my normal self and had 3.8 GPA last semester and didn't have any meltdowns. The other good thing is Flouxetine only costs me about $4 versus $20 for Lexapro. If you think the Lexapro is affecting you negatively tell your doctor and ask if you can try something else. I'm on a really low dose right now, but it seams to be working and I think part of why the lexapro was affecting me the way it was is how much I ended up taking... because it would help alot at first and then drop off so I had to up the dose, etc. Haven't had to do that with the prozac... Meds affect everyone different so another med might be better for you...

Anti-depressants don't make you less depressed - they just cover it up.

Keep doing them while you need them but try other things like therapy too.

I got off Paxil with insane difficulty (look up discontinuation syndrome). I started taking it for mild social anxiety (at the time didn't know anything about AS) and to "perk" me up a little. I swear I will never go on an AD again for as long as I can help it. ADs can be dangerous. Personally I don't think they should be given in anything less than really serious cases, and even then as a last resort after therapy, dietary changes, excercise, supplements...ect have all been tried. Additionally, it doesn't look like they can be effective indefintely, so sooner or later people are going to have to learn to cope without them, and it's much easier to plan it all sooner under your own terms than be forced off after maxing the dose.

I'm on the generic Zoloft and have been since June of last year. It seems to be working pretty well. Different meds work for different people. I think you should do whatever works best for you. I'm also in therapy which has helped somewhat too.

i'm seriously considering (despite previous catastrophes) medication again, this time with the AS diagnosis in hand... and anti-depressant and some kind of add med, because i doubt i'll ever drive if i don't go on a medication to help me focus. almost driving my dad and i into a gas pump kind of makes some kind of medicinal help a pre-req, 'cause if my dad hadn't snapped me out of it, we'd all be dead.
also, i hope the combination will make basic life tasks easier.

have people found this to be the case with that kind fo medication combo?

Thats why I take my meds, to cover up my anxiety and depression. My anxiety and panic disorder is so bad, I'd rather be in a coma, or dead, rather than deal with that terror for another minute. For me, treatment and therapy are like, using a band-aid for decapitation. For severe cases, I highly recommend using medications, along with treatment and/or therapy. Sometimes, it's just the only effective option, for some of us.

since moving out i have found out just how much i am currently unable to deal with in terms of independence. i don't think it's possible for me to ignore anymore the need for some kind of medicinal intervention at this point, as much as i hate the idea of it.
i hope that i might become good enough at daily life to go -off- of them some day, but at least in the short term i think they will help me get started without me wanting to crawl under my weighted blanket and wait there to die.

I never plan to get off my meds. They provide the stability I need, in order to function in this world. I think you will feel the same if you find the proper meds. Good luck in your search.

the last shrink who medicated me did it so poorly that i went into a dissociative state for over a month and nearly killed myself. the shrink said i was a noncompliant alcoholic and refused to talk to me while i was batshitcrazy.
so we're taking this in stages. allow my delusions of going off them some day. it makes it a little easier to deal with.

Alot of people here say that meds are evil, and to avoid at all cost. If I weren't on my meds, I would still be drinking and doing drugs. There was a part of me that I could not stand, and my addictions proved,that I was seeking change. I know you don't want the meds to change who you are but, you've got to be willing to accept some change. Almost every med you try, will have some side effects but, in time these will go away. I think, that once you are stabilized for awhile, you could start weaning yourself off of the meds, gradually. I may even be able to get off my meds someday, but I feel so much better now, that I don't even want to think about it, right now. Only time will tell.

i'm demonizing them because when i was ten there was no black box warning so all resulting problems from the prozac were treated with anti-psychs. then i finally go to a shrink on my own free will and i almost died. i had every neurological symptom, my boyfriend had to take a leave of absence from his job to make sure i didn't jump off the roof. i said and did horrible things that i don't remember, though i DO remember the psychiatrist telling me it was my fault because i was a drunk and i wasn't following her medication plan (which i was. high doses of trileptal and seroquel = very bad things).
i know meds work for some people, and i've seen it save lives.
but given the huge amounts of medicinal abuse over the years, and experiences every horrible side effect and almost committing suicide because of the states they put me in (i really hope i don't ever remember that lost month)... make me wary. extremely. it was easily the most f****d up thing i've ever experienced and it nearly destroyed me.
it's not the same as me whining about how 'flat' the world seems. it's literally people who induced psychosis in me, repeatedly, over the years because of their ineptitude.
i would never, ever slice and dice myself or attempt suicide when not on meds. i would never behave in a way that forces my boyfriend to sleep by the front door so i couldn't sneak out and leap off the building. i would never sit and scream all manner of nasty that makes no sense, and try to destroy everything i worked so hard for.

so. it's not me worrying about 'changing who i am'. it's an overall, arm-length list of the horrible things that have happened to me and been done to me in the past under the guise of 'therapy' - and then subsequently being blamed for everything that happened because it must be something i did wrong.

I take Paxil for my OCD and Social Phobia and take Ritalin for my executive function/ADD-I issues and both work wonders. The Paxil seems to make me less anxious and helps me suppress my OCD-based obsessive thoughts (not the same thing as "aspie" special interests) and compulsions.Ritalin helps me focus and improves my ability to multi-task.

Effexor was the best anti-depressant I took, but each person reacts differently to different meds. It's sort of pointless asking for advice on this issue, the only way you'll find the right on is 'trial and error'.

i personally think lexapro really helps. 'I was on that before but now im on citalopram. I am 21 years old and develloped depression when I was 16 and had a nervous breakdown.