Other Antidepressants
Wellbutrin may be difficult to tolerate since its side effects include anxiety and insomnia, and it can produce a high rate of seizures and cause anxiety, nightmares, and manic psychoses. Asendin is converted into a neuroleptic within the body. Neuroleptics are chemical lobotomies that blunt the highest functions of the brain and result in apathy, indifference, emotional blandness, conformity, and submissiveness, as well as reduction in all verbalizations, including complaints or protests. According to Breggin and Cohen, these drugs are used in veterinary medicine to control violent animals, but only for a short period of time because they are considered so dangerous.
Ludiomil may produce seizures and involuntary abnormal move-ments, and Remeron can induce sedation, dizziness, weight gain, and low blood pressure. Heart and blood vessel problems have been reported in connection with both drugs, as well as toxic psychoses, including mania and delirium.
Effexor’s potentially negative effects are similar to Prozac’s and include anxiety, nervousness, insomnia, loss of appetite, and weight loss. Other effects of Effexor include agitation, mania, hostility, paranoid reactions, psychotic depression, toxic psychosis, and high blood pressure. Serzone is more likely to cause sleepiness than insomnia and can produce light-headedness, confusion, memory impairment, and low blood pressure, as well as hostility, paranoid reactions, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, depersonalization, and hallucinations. Desyrel is apt to cause sedation, dizziness, and fainting, as well as heart problems if you already have a cardiac diagnosis, and a kind of irreversible penile erection that may require surgical correction.
Drawbacks of all antidepressants include bothersome side effects (at least for the first week or two), which can be reduced by starting off with a very low dosage and gradually increasing the amount over two or three weeks. Other drawbacks are that antidepressants take two to four weeks to take effect, and panic and depressive symptoms can return after withdrawing from them.
