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chronic unhappiness WITH prozac

Question:

Hello, I’m diagnosed with bipolar but am depressed more than I am up so am posting here.

Hmmmm……well, okay, we’ll let you in. Promise not to spy on us and report your findings back to the bipolar message boards! I’m taking 40mgs of prozac and am still unhappy. I would probably be suicidal but I don’t believe in it and think that it doesn’t resolve anything.

That’s a great attitude. Could it be the dosage? 40mgs doesn’t sound like much- the minimum for Zoloft is 50mg, I believe.I’m already being treated for it and have been for about 15 years but nothing seems to help. I’ve been through therapy and a number of medications and still the unhappiness persists. Ari

Wow, I wonder if it could be caused by something other than what the meds are designed to target?? Or a repressed memory/something not yet addressed?

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello, I’m diagnosed with bipolar but am depressed more than I am up so am posting here. I’m taking 40mgs of prozac and am still unhappy. I would probably be suicidal but I don’t believe in it and think that it doesn’t resolve anything. My family doesn’t understand, I’m getting tired of it myself and I don’t know what to do about it. I’m already being treated for it and have been for about 15 years but nothing seems to help. I’ve been through therapy and a number of medications and still the unhappiness persists. Ari

Ari–is that short for "Aristotle" or Hebrew for "lion"? Anyway… 1) Meds can take up to two months to work.  How long have you been    on Prozac? 2) What other meds have you taken, and for how long? 3) Have you been tested for other disorders?  Depression can be a    symptom of other illnesses.  If you haven’t done so already, you    should at least have a thyroid test taken and be checked for    hypoglycemia.

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Hello, I’m diagnosed with bipolar but am depressed more than I am up so am posting here. I’m taking 40mgs of prozac and am still unhappy. I would probably be suicidal but I don’t believe in it and think that it doesn’t resolve anything. My family doesn’t understand, I’m getting tired of it myself and I don’t know what to do about it. I’m already being treated for it and have been for about 15 years but nothing seems to help. I’ve been through therapy and a number of medications and still the unhappiness persists. Ari

Response:

Maybe you’re unhappy. — I had been alone often in the past.  Most of life was alien to me.  I hated every organized intellectual and social system.  I hated most the systems of psychology.  I asserted myself against these calculated answers to existence.  I spurned these logical reductions of man.  I explored my deepest subjective self to discover a more vital reality.  That subjective search led me into lonely solitude.  I risked it then. I risk it now. Existential Man, The Challenge of Psychotherapy, Richard E. Johnson, Ph.D

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello, I’m diagnosed with bipolar but am depressed more than I am up so am posting here. I’m taking 40mgs of prozac and am still unhappy. I would probably be suicidal but I don’t believe in it and think that it doesn’t resolve anything. My family doesn’t understand, I’m getting tired of it myself and I don’t know what to do about it. I’m already being treated for it and have been for about 15 years but nothing seems to help. I’ve been through therapy and a number of medications and still the unhappiness persists. Ari

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