You can add me to the list of people who were damaged from anti depressants. For the first year of being sick, my GP had me convinced that I was depressed. He said "you know sometimes we are depressed and don;t even know it-I'll put you on anti depressants and in a couple of weeks you will feel good as new" That little sentence started my slip sliding into an abyss that took me over two years to get off of. By that time, I was so sick with ME that the specialist I finally went to said that he can put me on his protocol but, he doubts it will help me because I should have come to him way earlier and before it became too severe. Of course, his protocol didn't help as many other treatments.
Same here, only it was 4 years of taking every anti-depressant known, every single one of them making me more ill. Add that to the inability to be properly diagnosed and continuing to "push through it", the disease progressed. Being limited within a community that knew nothing of me/cfs, I had to chase down the diagnosis myself. By the time the CCC came out and I knew for sure what I had and what needed to be done, I was bed bound severe, with minimal chances of recovery. Had I known in the beginning what I know now, I could have prevented disease progression. May even have fully recovered.
Anyhow, I have a far worse reaction to anti-depressants than any other medication. If I take any of them, I will get a rush of feeling better for 1-2 days, then crash into what feels like holding both the gas and the brake hard to the floor. Then it will put me in bed with severe symptoms. I get the same reaction irregardless of dose. I eventually realized that I wasn't dealing with depression, but some kind of neuroimmune disease.
It is what it is, I have climbed back from severe levels, and do believe that major recovery is possible. Wouldn't experience windows of wellness otherwise. But my reaction to anti-depressants is well beyond being just a "sensitivity", it's more like being poisoned.
