My fiance has ADD, and his psych put him on Strattera for it, then added Adderall. He has a history of mild depression, but he's always been able to deal with it before. After starting the Strattera, he started to get more depressed, and his personality began to change. He became moody, irritable, irresponsible, short-tempered.. When he told the pysch he was feeling depressed, she raised the dose of Strattera. This didn't help, so she raised the dose again, and the depression continued getting worse. So she raised the dose AGAIN.. Two weeks after starting this new dose, my fiance had a complete mental and nervous breakdown. Couldn't function, couldn't eat, couldn't do anything but sit and contemplate suicide. He called his psych and she put him on Wellbutrin, which was even worse for him! The suicidal thoughts drastically increased, he started rapidly dropping weight, he was exhausted and nauseous all the time, and he started having muscle spasms and tics, as well as bouts of intense anxiety and aggression. He also had periods of social phobia, where he was afraid to be around me or his parents or any other people, and was incapable of making eye contact.
So his psych switched him to Celexa then Lexapro. After 6 weeks on 20mg, he started to seem significantly better, although still nowhere near his normal self. The benefits did not outweigh the side effects. 3 weeks ago his psych decided to wean him off the Lexapro altogether. In the past 3 weeks, all his previous symptoms have returned, along with some new ones. And his psysch. won’t return his calls. He called her over a week ago to tell her about the major symptoms he's having now that he's tapering off, and 8 days later she STILL has not contacted him. I'm desperate! Nothing seems to help! He's in therapy as well, and that doesn't appear to be helping at all either!!! Any advice would be welcome.