It’s crazy to think how much a small pill can change your
body and have a huge impact on your daily life without even realising. It’s surprising
how most people associate antidepressants as ‘happy pills’ and just expect
individuals with depression and anxiety just to be able to ‘get over it’ and
think it’s a sudden fix. However, this isn’t the case and as with most people
who first start taking antidepressants can tell you, symptoms tend to get worse
before they get better.
S P O T S : Surprisingly, not a lot of people are aware of
the fact that because your putting another hormone in to your body your hair
and skin will get greasy and it’s crazy how bad your skin can feel and anyone
would feel shitty when getting loads of spots on your face when you’ve past
your teen years, it can be a sensitive time! But luckily, Sudocream and
cleansing twice a day can really help!
H A I R: As mentioned above, your hair will naturally get
greasier no matter how much you try and wash it. At first, I was very upset
because after I showered, a few hours later my hair would be greasy again and
it felt like nothing I could do would actually fix it. I tried everything, but
the only thing I could really do was avoid certain products and buy shampoos
for it.
S L E E P: Hormones, hormones, hormones! It’s crazy how much
it can affect your sleep but it does. It can either increase the amount your
having or keep you up all night even though you still feel tired and no matter
how much sleep you have, you never feel fully replenished and awake so no
wonder why you may become irritable towards people when all you want to do is
sleep!
B A C K P A I N:
Constantly always feeling tired and irritable, it makes you stressed which then
influences your sleep, which influences mood…Can you see a pattern forming
here? Being stressed then causes physical pain which won’t really go away
probably until you feel unstressed. No matter how many tablets I take, or how
much heat I apply to my back or if someone massages, It comes back. And the
only real way to get rid of that pain (if there isn’t a physical issue) is to
resolve the thing you are stressed about, which is really hard to do when you
can’t sleep and your emotions seem hey wire, I mean geez, can you see why
people on antidepressants seem more ‘moody’ than before?
V I V I D D R E A M
S: I don’t know how 100% accurate this is, but I know I do and I know some of
my friends have dreams that are so intense and seem so real that sometimes you
can’t really remember what’s actually happened and what you dreamt about. The
other day, I had a dream about my house mate being mad at me because I used her
hair brush without asking and that she wanted me out of the house and wanted to
kick me out. The dream was so real and vivid, for half the day I wasn’t sure if
it happened or not and believed that my housemate didn’t like me until I
remembered that it was just a dream.
F A T I G U E: linking so closely to sleep I know, but when
you work and go to uni feeling tired all the time can be an absolute nightmare.
Wanting to sleep every day and all day isn’t the best feeling and what happens
when you feel tired? Your concentration starts to go… So the other day, I was
sat in uni and I felt like I couldn’t cope, all I wanted to do is sleep so in
my twenty-minute break, I ran up to the shop to get a brownie and Fanta to
boost my sugar levels and turned round to my friend Meg )
about how tired I felt and that I needed a sugar rush and she turned around to
me and was like ‘Why not fruit?’ and I looked at her and started to make these
lame excuses, however she was right. Not long after I had a sugar comedown and
I felt worse than I did before, So the next day I had a Banana, which believe
it or not had a much better effect on my concentration. I mean, it lasted an
hour but I felt a lot better and to some people it may be common knowledge, but
I feel like this tip may be useful to someone else as well J
So all in all, this belief that individuals who start taking
antidepressants should just ‘be happy’ and ‘are cured’ needs to leave, because
these are only a few of the side effects which happen and as you may imagine,
if you were tired all the time no matter how much you slept or constantly
having a bad back you too would be irritable?
What do you guys think? Can you think of side effects which
occur when taking antidepressants? And little tricks to make it easier?
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