Hypertension and Depression

[jacobez77]

I have been diagnosed with hypertension and depression. I started doing crazy things like sleeping on the side of the road and time lapses. I was told by my previous job that it is affecting my work and they cant keep on carrying me and now its affecting my new job. I have a wife and 2 young children. I was born in south africa and moved to australia. Now I live in england with my english wife and my 2 children. It feels like I am loosing my mind, i want to scream inside. I often try to over dose on my hypertention tablets and i dont want to take my depression tablets because its making me worse. the doctors blows be off and i dont know what to do. I WANT to die and I cant wait till the hypertension kills me. Why am I feeling like this?

[M4Y0U]

I agree with what remar said.

With hypertension you want to avoid stimulating antidepressants like Wellbutrin or even Prozac. I highly suggest a tetracyclic or tricyclic you take at night before bedtime and remember that most antidepressant medications can take at least 4 weeks on continual use to be effective. Dose adjustments are usually suggested once you are adapted to the drug.

It is true that the medications lose a bit of their efficacy if they are not used in conjunction with counseling with a psychologist.

M4

[remar]

It sounds like you may need to try a different antidepressant. Sometimes you have to try several or even a cocktail of meds to find what works. Can you say what meds you've tried so far? Are you in counseling? That could be a huge help to you.  Remar