i found it really good. The drowsiness wears off after about a week or so, but if its making you want to hurt yourself more then i suggest you speak to your doctor.
I find myself better on the 15mg dose now, more present, less sedated. But I did need the 30mg when I was on it. I've been on mirtaz. nearly 5 years now.
Not sure on it increasing self harm urges/anger. Since I have a bunch of that stored up already.... I guess I'll find out when I come off it...
Im on it and it doesnt do much for my depression. It does help me sleep though. A while after I first started talking it I fainted a couple of times and had a seizure. Also it made me hungry a lot of the time.
The drowsiness should wear off, if it doesnt your dose is probably too high. That happened to me and I spent about a week sleeping and waking up with terrible headaches.
I've worked out that I need to take it about 11-12 hours before I want to get up otherwise Im really tired in the morning. I usually get up around 8am so I take it around 8 or 9 the night before.
I didn't find it that sedating, maybe a bit drowsy, but hardly much. It made me gain weight, and have more of an appetite. It might have made me a bit more angry..
It was a pretty crap though. I was on it for about 7-8 months.
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This was the first thing I was put on back in the day. It really helped with getting me to sleep as my insomnia was particularly bad but I did feel really spaced out and tired and zombiefied all day which was not fun. But it did help with the whole depression thing, weather that was because I was too tired to think about it or not so yeh...
The world is just illusion always trying to change me.
You will find wonder wherever you can, and spread joy whenever you are able.
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, divide within me. - Frankenstein.
I love this anti-depressant for myself.
it does work, & well, except, i piled on weight on it, which ended up bringing me down. (although they think it wasn't just the mirtazapine making me want to eat).
& i loved the fact it knocked me out, although make sure you go to sleep on a emptyish bladder, i woke up in the middle of the night needing the toilet & almost dived down the stairs as i was so drowsy on it.
When I changed from citalopram to mirtazapine, for about 3 weeks I was full of rage and completely self-destructive. I wanted to smash people in the face and scream and I was just so angry I was constantly shaking. It was kinda horrifying since I'm not like that at all. Its also weird considering I went straight onto 30mg, and the first day I slept for 16 hours straight... but yeah, it did fade, and really was a fantastic anti-depressant for me. I just eventually got to the point where even on 45mg I couldn't take having my sleep patterns totally controlling my life. Hopefully in a week or two the rage and self-destructiveness will fade a little and it'll statr workingw ell for you.
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Tell me why it's always the same
Explain me the reason why I'm so much in pain.
I tried it once but I found that every single dose made me feel like I wanted to vomit. In the end I got fed up of feeling like that, and stopped taking it.
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It worked well, mostly helped me sleep, but did help a little with the depression, but I stopped it because the effects appeared to wear off only things felt worse when I stopped it, never stop it abruptly, if your like me & find it too sedating & doing little for your depression after you've been on it for a while, speak to your doctor, they'll ween you off gradually & change it to something else, I found the lower the dose the more sedating, & the higher the dose it gradually got less sedating & more anti-depressing, but always bear in mind every body is different, what helps me may not help you, anyway good luck :)
I found that it made me drowsy and gave me what I call my 'Mirtazapine belly.' It didn't help my depression at all but everyone is different and I hope that it helps you. Do you normally feel angry? There are lots of ways of dealing with anger such as punching a pillow, ripping up some paper, or going for a run. Good luck and take care.
I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much.
Don't try to calm the storm, calm yourself, the storm will pass.
I was on Mirtazipine for about 6 months in total. I didn't find it helped my mood much but it did help me sleep. I would say try and work through the side effects for now and give it a bit of time. It did make me gain a large amount of weight though.
It was like a miracle drug for nine months with regards to my depression. Then it suddenly stopped working and the dose was increased and increased and in the end I switched to trazodone.
I was also sleeping a lot on it and gained a lot of weight.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
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