Anti-Depressants.com

Anti-Depressants.com will deliver up-to-date information on the latest drug treatments for depression, their relative efficacies, plus alternative anti-depressants, such as exercise, nutritional supplements such as 5-HTP, herbs such as St Johns Wort, talking therapies and so on.

In the meantime, these anti-depressants resources may be useful:

• The Royal College of Psychiatrists on Anti-Depressants
• The Good Drug Guide
• What Wikipedia has to say about anti-depressants
• MIND mental health charity on anti-depressants

There is more to lifting depression than just drugs, and you should bear this in mind if you thinking about taking anti-depressants. Although these medications can help some people, they can also cause bizarre and unwanted side-effects, and even if they do help you, may leave you feeling that there is something wrong with you that only drugs can fix.

The NICE guidelines for depression treatment state that the first treatment should not be drugs for most depression and that Cognitive-Behavioural therapy should be used first. A good cognitive-behavioural therapist will be able to help you understand whether something you are doing is worsening the depression, and will help you lift it. More importantly, they will give you strategies to use should you begin to feel depressed in the future. Anti-depressants will not do that of course.

List of Antidepressant Drugs

SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors)

MAOIs (Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors)

Tricyclic Antidepressants

Tetracyclic Antidepressants

mianserin
maprotiline (Ludiomil)
amoxapine (Asendin)
mirtazapine (Remeron)

Other Antidepressants

nefazodone (Serzone)
bupropion (Wellbutrin)
duloxetine (Cymbalta)
venlafaxine (Effexor)
reboxetine (Edronax)
trazodone (Desyrel)
tianeptine