Depression drug effexor

I have been suffering with a form of depression called Cyclethemia(not sure of the spelling) almost all my life. I have been on CELEXA and it works very well, except after taking it for a few years I began to lose all my sex drive. I discontinued taking the drug, but now I have decided to start taking the drug as I feel that at my age (59) I would rather feel good and treat everyone good rather than worry about being able the want sex.

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Disturbed sleep can cause depression.
Depression can cause disturbed sleep.
It becomes a terrible and terrifying negative feedback loop.

Great Depression started in 2928

I sympahtize with those who have depression, but I think meds are way too overprescribed in our society, and depression is misdiagnosed all too often, unfortunately. :(

Depression is an insidious disease. Our culture values self motivated go-getters and stoic male archetypes. Depression saps motivation, and any emotional revelation of weakness is profoundly unattractive. For some men, depression not only eliminates the ability to find joy, it robs them of their masculinity. Depression neuters men.
You wrote, Maybe one day, he would find someone who could truly love all of him. Sadly, I think it is impossible for a depressed man because he cannot truly love all of himself. Depression is often a terminal disease.

Hate to shit on your parade but in my field one of the secrets is that antidepressants do not work. In fact they can make an acute period of depression into clinical and on going depression. SSRi are noted for an after effect. Suicidal thoughts and homicidal fantasies. In fact most of the mass killers have been on an SSRI before the shooting. I have seen our treatment of depression be so bad. Let me tell you about the wife of a really good friend. There was an ethical issue about me seeing her. She had doubts because I use different tools other than pharmaceuticals. Things like Omega 3, Vitamin D3, SAMe and a few other. Even mainstream practioners know exercise is a treatment but if they are depressed they do not have the energy to do so. This young woman was clinical depressed with psychotic episodes. Part of the episodes is that she would think there were bugs under her skin on her face. She would pick at her skin to get them our leaving her face with deep scratches. She went through several programs both outpatient and inpatient. She was prescribed many antidepressants and other drugs used to treat other conditions but were ok for off model treatment of depression. She lost a high paying executive position. She lost a few at places like Walmart. Finally, she was pulled over by a state trooper, tested, arrested for DUI only it was a drug other than alcohol. It was one of the drugs she had been prescribed for her depression. Self medication at its worst. Now she is the system. Got an idiot of a judge and a fool of a ADA. Fined. Jailed. Her expenses were do great for her previous treatments that even at 65,000 a year my friend could not pay. Lost one more job by failing drug test. Got another but because she failed the random drug test had to go to jail again. Had to serve on none work days. After all this and 9 years my friend finally convinced himself he could not help and he morally was ok to seek divorce. And custody of a 12 yr old boy. SHe had never been unfaithful sexually. But she hid the DUI as long as possible. The drug addiction. She had been verbally abusive and had tried to hit him with bats and brooms etc. No sex for 7 years. Folks drug therapy for depression and other mental illnesses are mostly a failure and if successful they cause other problems. I have acquaintances who are statisticians who made a good living working p[art time for large pharmaceutical co. to massage data so the companies could show a significant difference where one did not exist. The FDA would then approve the drug. So the drugs do not work.