Posted 8/25/2015 3:07 AM (GMT 0)
CLDCR asked about antidepressant recos.
My husband went into a major funk when he got diagnosed -- he was in a ton of pain, his diagnosis/prognosis was horrible, and I'm sure immediate castration and other drastic hormonal changes didn't help. He started drinking too much (and hiding it from me) to "take the edge off" his days. It was incredibly hard to deal with. He was down, and although I tried to help, I couldn't make much of a dent. Which made me down -- the whole cancer situation, the future I used to take for granted, and then living with this drastically changed man (irritable, depressed, weepy, you name it).
I might have let that run indefinitely, but we have kids. And I realized pretty abruptly when our oldest (then 11) basically imploded that something had to change.
I don't want to attribute everything to the antidepressant, we made some other life changes too (my husband started going to a counselor, at the marital equivalent of gun point, and despite his extreme reluctance, it made an almost immediate, and positive, difference) but still, I think Wellbutrin has been a godsend.
So for anyone considering an antidepressant, what do you have to lose? And wellbutrin is probably not a bad place to start (and is an especially good choice if you have cravings or emotional eating -- lots of people lose weight on it because it helps solve the problems they were otherwise trying to solve with ice cream, and for my husband, it made alcohol a less compelling solution).