I just got prescribed a new medication

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I got prescribed Paxil for depression. I get depressive episodes a lot. I'm still on Abilify. I hope it helps my depression and anxiety that I experience daily. I had a great appointment as well.

Paxi is in the SSRI group. Should work for depression.
I hope it helps.
It can get worse before getting better - have patience for a few weeks, inform your doc of any problematic symptoms.

Not a doctor, but make sure you eat healthy food with variety of proteins, especially rich in tryptophan, cover all vitamins and minerals, get enough sunlight and exercise.

SSRIs do not solve serotonin supply problem. If your brain can't synthesize serotonin due to deficit of tryptophan in your food or because tryptophan can't cross blood-brain barrier due to not enough of exercise and sunlight or if tryptophan metabolises into quinolinic acid due to lack of exercise, there will be nothing to re-uptake, and inhibiting re-uptake will not do s**t.

Don't leave your recovery at mercy of blind luck and pills, be intentional about all aspects, all links of this chain. The sooner you can adjust your lifestyle and get off SSRIs, the better. This is not my personal opinion, this is results of follow up research. Long term SSRI medications makes depression worse.