"Nom dePlume" <nomdeplume1000-at-yahoo.com> wrote in message news:...
Age has nothing to do with the effectiveness of antidepressants. It
isn't clear that there are any measurable attributes of people that
have any correlation with the effectiveness of antidepressants,
other
than an individual's track record after trying a variety of them.
--
Nom dePlume, Ph.D
Why, yes, in fact, I am a rocket scientist.
"Bob" <bob@bob.com> wrote in message
news:3Gg_b.28951$Vr6.4834@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
I am 24 and I have been depressed since adolescence, but I have
never gotten
any treatment for it. I finally managed to get off my butt and
get
some
help, and a doctor prescribed me Prozac. It was pretty easy.
My question is, is this a late age to start taking
anti-depressants?
Everyone I know who takes anti-depressants started them much
earlier. I
probably should have been taking them all along. I feel like by
now
my
personality has matured, and it is a "depressed" personality, so I
am a
little skeptical that they will work. If they do work then I will
be a
completely different person, which might not be a bad thing, but
it
would be
hard to imagine.
You're right -- It is often impossible to imagine. Before I became
depressed, I had a normal range of emotions. Afterwards, there were
feelings I could no longer have. I could remember that I had had
them,
and even verbalize what they'd been like, but I could not summon up
a
memory of the feelings themselves, because I could no longer
experience them. Nowadays, I can no longer remember what it was
really
like to not have feelings, since medication has restored formerly
absent capacities. Very strange indeed.
I would like to hear from anyone who has started on
anti-depressants
late in
life and what their experience was.
thanks,
Bob
.
