Nofbar:
Now and then I see posts here about which antidepressants cause the most weight gain. That's great, but it ignores the primary purpose of antidepressants. Could I get a conversation going about combating depression? I don't want to be depressed. If an antidepressant causes me to gain a lot of weight, that's great, but I'd like to hear from people about what meds actually helped beat back depression.
Letters And Numbers:
Talk to your doctor. 1) even the people on the site who have a lot of knowledge about medicine don’t have access to your chart. 2) it’s just a very individual, trial and error thing. Even if you get advice, you need to see how meds work with your individual brain chemistry, which isn’t going to be like anyone else’s.
I’d also say that most modern antidepressants cause very negligible weight gain, if any.
I second this. People can have wildly different needs when it comes to mental health. Some people cannot take certain medications (or any medications) for a variety of reasons, like drug interactions, allergies, genetic makeup, etc.
Honestly, I hate the conversations on here discussing which medications make you fat [i[specifically[/i] because I know there are people on this very site who will happily abuse these medications. Some have straight up admitted to doing such.
In this specific situation, FF isn't a space to discuss these things. While I won't begrudge anyone for talking about their lived experiences, it does open things up to making medication recommendations. This is a very ill-advised route to take.
If we do have a conversation about antidepressants here, it would be far better to talk about system navigation and patient advocacy. But, once again, this isn't the space for this.
