Anon,
Is your real name Lilly Eli or Eli Lilly?
You have only been on the antidepressants a few months so you might feel better because your adrenals have not yet burnt out.
Drug companies lie about the aide effects of antidepressants and all their drugs.For example , Eli Lilly says that they only produce sexual side effects in about two percent of people taking them whereas the real figure is about sixty percent.
Drug companies claimed that psychoactive drugs such as thorzine only caused tardive dyskinesia in 3-5% of patients , and these were mostly elderly patients. In reality , tardive dyskinesia occurred in 40% of young patients.
Tardive dyskinsia occurs in a far greater percentage of the people taking imipramine and other antidepressants than the drug companies admit and its' symptoms are often suppressed by the drugs and don't show up until you stop the drugs. Tardive dyskinesia is usually irreversible and not only causes bizzare twitches , it causes chronic pain fron chronically contracted rigid muscles.Many believe their tics and chronic tension are psychological rather than neurological so they dont report their symptoms to their psychiatrist.Mercury toxicity is similar in that many people including several on this forum think that their twitches and muscle tension especially in the jaw and neck are caused by stress not toxicity.
When drug companies test antidepressants, the trials last only about six weeks whereas the brain levels dont reach their maximum ( except in people who are slow excreters) for six months. Once a drug is approved there is basically no surveilance of its' effects.
These drugs , even taken for a couple of months, produce permanant personality changes , and since structure determines function , they must be causing brain damage.
The damage may not be obvious in some people until later in life when their brains' reserves are depleted.People exposed to large amounts of neurotoxic mercury should be more succeptible to neurological damage from antidepressants.