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Reposting because I dropped this in the last Wednesday thread on a Tuesday like a dummy.
Could anyone direct me to some good posts about antidepressants? Effortposts about their efficacy, personal experience, I'm not picky. I tried to find some but Google wasn't much use and I can't figure out how to search the site specifically (permanent lurker here, sorry).
I was on Bupropion for 2 years about a decade ago. For the first year it was helpful in managing a depression that manifested with lots of fatigue. It gave me the energy to make lifestyle changes that improved it long term. During the second year it began causing unmanageable anger issues and I eventually stopped. Ever since then my lifestyle changes and talk therapy have managed it reasonably well.
Lately it's been getting worse and I'm considering going back on antidepressants. The main issue is that unambiguously good events exacerbate my depression and that has historically led to me sabotaging myself. I have some major life events coming up in the next couple years and would like some emotional stability. I have a psych eval tomorrow and I was hoping for some advice, feedback, pointed questions to ask the psychiatrist, stories, anything really. Even some google-fu advice to find better scientific information about this instead of feel-good self help articles made by AI or journalists who are about as smart as current AI without the work ethic. Do I even need antidepressants, or is this some weird Pavlovian issue that I can work on without them?
I can't imagine this is something that should or could be best treated with pills.
My guess: you need schema therapy. Emotional memory reconsolidation. You can do it yourself with some knowledge and guided meditation audio files, or with a therapist (but finding a competent one can be a crapshoot). I'll send you a pm tomorrow if you're interested.
Never heard of this before but I'm interested. Lay it on me.
Here is a good explanation of schema therapy: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3qzA8nFXNQ/book-summary-unlocking-the-emotional-brain
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