medication effects

[purplefan]

It shows you what a good job the medication can do though rose. Do you ever think that you feel better so you will stop taking them?

For me it really depends on which ones I miss.
Venlafaxine has a very short half-life and if I forget the dose I do feel a bit rubbish later in the day (I take a tiny dose, the higher the dose I took, the greater the effect of forgetting the dose). Its important to try and take this one at the same time each day.
Fluoxetine has a long half life and missing a dose usually doesn't make a great of difference to me, the levels in my blood stream have built up over time and it would take over a week for them to start dropping and weeks for the drug to leave my system.
When I stopped Quetiapine it took a few days to notice a decline and a few days to get back to normal once I started taking them again, this one has quite a short half-life, but its an antipsychotic rather than an antidepressant so it works differently.

[rose]

It shows you what a good job the medication can do though rose. Do you ever think that you feel better so you will stop taking them?

Probably not. I have been taking some form of medication for depression for about ten years, and I think I will always need something.