I went to the doctor and they put me on antidepressants and anxiety meds but I feel like they do don’t shit except make me binge eat because I feel hungry all the time. They don’t make me feel better I just feel numb and empty, I can’t cry or anything. I went to a counselor too but I didn’t even know what to say because I just felt so numb, my mind went completely blank. Also the session is supposed to last an hour but I was waiting for 15 minutes and then her computer froze for like 30 minutes and she was trying to fix that the whole time instead of talking to me, and she kept checking her phone. It made me feel like I wasn’t important to her at all, so that was nothing but a waste of time. She also had me sign a paper promising I won’t harm or kill my self like that is going to do anything. I stopped taking the meds a few days ago because I want to lose weight and I don’t even care about the withdrawal symptoms of stopping them. I hate myself so much because I can’t stick to a diet. I don’t know why I can never just have a normal relationship with food i either restrict, starve, or binge. I’m supposed to go back to the counselor again but I don’t even know what to tell her.
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Sounds like a horrible experience and I’m really sorry you had to go through that. But I’m not very surprised, I was also treated like a timed commodity. Definitely don’t go back to that doctor, there are better ones out there (so I’ve been told).
About the antidepressents, let me guess… were they SSRI (Celexa, Lexapro, Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft)? I had an experience just like you described. NO benefit, just felt slow, gained a lot of weight, lost a lot of hair, became very suicidal. I can’t believe how these things ever got approved. From what I’ve read on this site most people had bad experiences with SSRIs also.
Food is a common issue with depression, and to be honest I doubt there’s a cure other than curing depression as a whole. It might help to join an eating disorder support group or forum? It helped me a lot.
Keep trying different things, I guess that’s the only solace we have. There are lots of different treatments, medical and otherwise, something has to work?
Yes it was Paxil, I haven’t binged since I stopped them, though I’m starting to feel sick. Thanks for your advice 🙂