Doesn’t even have to be anti-depressants.
Dr. gave me Lyrica for neuropathy. After a week, I was pissed at everyone. snapped at loved ones, thought about suicide, and taking as many with me as possible.
Needless to say, I’ll never take the medication again, but I’ve never felt so helpless, like I was being told to do things by a second being.
Lyrica acts on some of the same pathways as GBH, gabapentin and many antidepressants. My own mum discovered she couldn’t take the drug. However, most likely these are just out and out drug reactions that a few folks just go thru like yourself.
The psychotic reactions I’m talking about occur across the wide range of antidepressants, not just SSRI’s.(these psychotic effects or enhanced feelings of suicide was also noted with the old tricyclics and MAO’s as well. These are thought to be related to the emotional “mood lifting or elevating effects of the drugs”.) That is why some anti-depressants are also being paired with or designed chemically with anti-psychotic drugs or elements so that while the depression lifts, one does not become psychotic at the same time!