I was on an antidepressant once …. I found that it made a difference pretty much overnight

I'm glad that you're feeling better.... It looks like you have some good and healthy plans

Mindfulness meditation can be really helpful I'm told..... I haven't done it myself......xo

I’ve been taking an anti depressing for five years now. Different ones but the current ones are helping. Your small goals sound right on par. You do t want to overwhelm yourself. Two or three goals is more than enough to start with, then you can make your way up to bigger goals

Thanks yeah i just realized my condition,has been affecting me at work... Im gonna try to work but honestly the job I do requires lots of concentration and thinking on my feet. Very hard to do with depression.

What med are you taking? I need one bad and I’ve tried Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Celexa, Cymbalta, Wellbutrin, and all them had bad side effects especially Zoloft and Wellbutrin. I am glad you are feeling much better. I struggle with depression now since I am on a mood stabilizer more than I do mania. Off meds I have very high energy and then it follows with a crash of severe depression and then mania and then depression again. Their was never an in between off meds. However Lamictal got me stabilized and out of a very severe mind numbing depression. I am mild to moderate and mostly mild but it still makes my sleep schedule wacky and I am very unmotivated. I feel like I don’t wanna do anything most the time. Zoloft made me go into psychosis. Prozac made me not wanna sleep plus put sores on my scalp. Celexa done nothing. Lexapro done nothing but make me put on 40 pounds. Wellbutrin made me have delusions and hand numbness along with severe neck pain. Cymbalta done nothing at all. I don’t think I’ve been on any other antidepressants. I’ve tried all the atypical antipsychotics and they either gave me akathisia or shaking and I’ve been a Lithium which I went toxic on and it never done a thing for me except put on weight for me and Zyprexa put on over 100 pounds on me in 6 months. My sis claims I seemed good on Lithium but I felt nothing on it. I’ve tried a couple first generation antipsychotics and those were a nightmare for me. I loved seroquel but I slept 18 hours a day on it and ended up having a life threatening side effect after about 2 months of being on it. It was prolixin that gave me akathisia and also Latuda did and another one I took made me so beside myself and I would cry over nothing. I’ve had a terrible time on meds. Was on a new one called Vraylar for two years and I done wonderful on it and it started giving me bad tremors in my head and hands even while sleeping. I’ve been on Lamictal two years and it has kept me from mania except for a couple of hypo mania episodes that weren’t too bad. I however have that what my doctor calls partially treated depression.

I'm on pristiq. I was on it before and went off of it and am on latuda also but my whole body is stiff because of it. I tried cogentin to take care of the stiffness but it gave me bad sure effects. So idk what to do about the latuda now. Maybe go on something else...

I would definitely go on something else. Cogentin was useless for me. I mean it may take a few days to work and mine did initially and then it quit working and they told me to take Benadryl and that didnt work at all.

You have to remember that it can take 3 - 6 weeks for Psych meds to reach their full therapeutic effect and for a patient to get the full benefit and work through initial side effects. This is why Pdocs don't tell you to stop them when you complain about non-lethal, or dangerous side effects in the beginning...sometimes you just have to let your body and brain chemistry adjust.

Every person is different when it comes to medication. Every person adjusts on a different time schedule. Keep in touch with your Pdoc about the side effects, that's important. And it's good to keep a "medication journal" when you start new meds, to jot down daily any changes or side effects that got better or worse, so you and your Pdoc can track progress or decide to stop them.

But in the end you have to give them time to work.