This is the ideal situation for me. I only want to be on something temporarily. I wonder about getting on/getting off anti-deps And whether I could do it by myself or would I need a doctor's assistance.... and could I just try them out for a month or would it take longer to see the results ------------
Dawning,
Several AD's take roughly between 2 & 6 weeks to work, and you need to taper (slowly reduce dosage) under Dr. supervision, when you want to stop taking them.
You might want to consider that if the drug is wrong for you and you are having difficult side effects, you still have to keep taking the taper doses for some weeks.
I am not against those meds. by any means but if
thankfully, though things are really difficult, you are not completely debilitated by the dep., and are not very seriously at the risk of suicide, I would say that if you want to try the power yoga or anything else you can think of
first, it might be a way to go.
You will know in your mind that AD's will always be there as an option.
I was so struck by the responses when I'd ask advice whether I should try a med. in forums with those already taking them.
By far, I was told that unless I absolutely had to (my life was in danger if I didn't), don't. And this advice was from people who were very successfully taking them. Where the AD's were working for them.
If you decide to read more about meds., you will come to know more about what is involved with taking them. There are many things to consider.
Hope you have a good day, and are maybe able to do at least a little a bit of house cleaning. I have felt like that too, and in hindsight I could see it was a step in the healing/processing of something very emotionally challenging for me (the ending of my relationship with xN). I
needed to go through a period of obsessive thinking in order to process things and be able to sum them up in some kind of way that would help me move on.
It felt like I was getting stuck there too, but I saw that
so many other people went through the
identical thing (communicated via discussion boards) and were concerned they were stuck too, but they were just processing during that time. They all never thought they'd come out of it, but did. I thought the exact same, and came out of it, too.
After about 2 & 1/2 weeks, though I was far from finished with obsessive thinking bouts (more spaced out & shorter after), I was able to clean up this darn place!

And boy, at that point, did I ever have my work cut out for me.
Take care...
BT