started antidepressants

i (19F) started antidepressants for the first time today. i don’t really know what to expect. i’m on escitalopram (the brand name is lexapro). i was wondering if anyone has any advice? or anything i should...

Today was a bad day

I’m 20f with autism depression and anxiety, I am medicated. I had a “training day” at a new job recently, this is my third job and I’m going to be a waitress/cocktail bartender in a newly...

I want to hurt myself

I’m not sure of any other way to put it I guess but here lately (shit the past few years or so) I’ve been having vivid imagery and what I guess I would call verbal imaginations...

Medication working?

What were the signs for you that a medication was doing its job? Also, is it possible to mistake a medication stabilizing your depression for “mania”? That’s just occurred to me as a possibility.. I’ve stopped...