Men: Do any antidepressants work for your mood?

[MrMuffin]

I'm wondering for enjoyment of life in general, to lose irritability and being overly emotional over nothing. This never used to be a problem for me before.

 

[Hip]

I'm wondering for enjoyment of life in general, to lose irritability and being overly emotional over nothing.

Both men and women can suffer these symptoms, after being hit with ME/CFS.

The brain's emotional circuitry often takes a hit in ME/CFS; emotional dysfunctions are listed in the Canadian consensus criteria document.

ME/CFS patients can experience emotional and stress sensitivity (feeling like to you are too emotionally feeble to deal with life's stressors and emotional upheavals), blunted emotions (where emotional responses are weak or absent), and also a something called emotional lability (aka pseudobulbar affect), which involves random, unpredictable or unstable emotional responses or outbursts.

Irritability sometimes appears in ME/CFS. The only drug I found effective for mine is very low dose amisulpride.

It is possible that the similar drug Abilify will also work for irritability (Abilify is FDA approved for treating irritability in autistic children, who often have military grade irritability). Abilify can also lead to major improvements in ME/CFS (see the ME/CFS Abilify success stories listed in this post), and is currently being tested at Stanford for use an ME/CFS treatment.

 

[gbells]

I'm wondering for enjoyment of life in general, to lose irritability and being overly emotional over nothing. This never used to be a problem for me before.

A lot of people have frontal lobe brain problems from HHV6 infection that causes depression, anxiety.

I don't get that depressed now. Back when it was worse I was using 24% heated CBD oil sublingually BID (Gold label) to treat severe depression. It works well.

There are a lot of lifestyle things that help depression.

• Exercise outdoors.
• Use a sunlamp (Seasonal Affective Disorder).
• Eat protein with carbs (increases tryptophan absorption)
• Alternate GMO roundup foods (grains, meats) with non GMO so gut bacteria can stay healthy.
• Do cognitive behavioural and ACT therapy.