Post Cycle Depression

[CYPRIOSQUATS]

I know this is impossible or hard for some of you guys but this i what i did to avoid the problem. I never weighed myself I just used the mirror to see progress and i also changed my tempo's throughout and after so i never got really depressed with the strenght loses. It helped me a ton and i feel like i can still gain even though i haven't been on anything for months. thought this might help some of you.

 

[TheStromba]

I know this is impossible or hard for some of you guys but this i what i did to avoid the problem. I never weighed myself I just used the mirror to see progress and i also changed my tempo's throughout and after so i never got really depressed with the strenght loses. It helped me a ton and i feel like i can still gain even though i haven't been on anything for months. thought this might help some of you.

I'm not talking about being depressed about size or strength losses. I'm talking about REAL depression. No appetite, sleeping alot, uncontrolable sadness.

I HAVE to change my behavior, It's fuckin with my marrage too.

If I go to the doc. I know he is just gonna prescribe an ssri, and I was on them once and they SUCK. (no more orgasms, I LIKE my orgasms.)

So I'm hoping a few more bros will answer.

HOW LONG WILL THIS LAST !?

I am certain it is cycle related.

Although I actually started feeling a bit better yesterday. I really cant take much more of this.

Thanks

 

[jackhammer]

Ive been going through depression for about a month and a half, now Im thinking comming off my last cycle is part of it. I started going to a therapist and He has come to a conclusion that I have a dependence on beer, he's some what right but ive have stopped now for 5 weeks. Dr gave me wellbutrin, I think that helps, no sexual side effects. I know what your going through its tough, Ive lost so much weight and I thought I was lean before, now Im ripped.

 

[Shinobi]

Last June I just finished I huge EQ/Fina/prop/winny cycle. I was fucking ripped, really into training and my diet. On July 1 I had to move to Warsaw, Poland for an internship. I didnt wanna go but would be good for my curriculum so I went. I had 2 reasons to be depress and I really was! 1) My cycle was over, no good gyms in Warsaw, no car to drive, no supplements, not TV in my house 2) I missed my family a lot!
I saw myself in the mirror everyday shrinking while my friends were in Ibiza partying showing their bodies that we trained together and I was in Warsaw. I had some Paxyl but I didnt take it cause I read so many bad stuff about it on the net that I didnt take it and Im so glad that I didnt. I never been so depress in my life during my 3 months in Warsaw but now is over and Im on a test/EQ cycle very happy Everything is a moment...Today you are small, tomorrow you will be huge... Thats how life is.

 

[georgie24]

Ive been going through depression for about a month and a half, now Im thinking comming off my last cycle is part of it. I started going to a therapist and He has come to a conclusion that I have a dependence on beer, he's some what right but ive have stopped now for 5 weeks. Dr gave me wellbutrin, I think that helps, no sexual side effects. I know what your going through its tough, Ive lost so much weight and I thought I was lean before, now Im ripped.

HOW DO YOU FEEL ON WELLBUTRIN?

 

[thx9000]

I've dealt with depression in the past. Well it was called "dysthymia" just intense sadness and I was OCD. I was on prozac for a couple of years and had to stop b/c of intense mood swings (manic behavior). I was one Paxil for about a week and that was even worse; would go from literally hyper to crying hysterically in a matter of 5min. When I quite the SSRI's I determined that I was "just not going to get depressed" and was going to stop obcessing. The DOC said I needed depakot and would not succeed on my own. I was fine for five years...

Then I started playing with some drugs, E among them. Didn't want to go back on SSRI's and mood stabilizers so I tried practically everything that was OTC: St. J, 5-HTP, SAMe, kava kava, ENDH...The one thing that had an amazing impact, for me, was 5-HTP. That stuff worked for me practically as well as prozac with less of the side effects that the SSRI gave me.

 

[jackhammer]

I think wellbutrin is helping, its takes a while to get working maybee 3 weeks or so, I think Im gradualy comming out of it. it wasnt any over night change, and its not altering my mood to real happy or anything, but it seems to work, dr just prescribed a second month, hopefully Ill be OK then.

 

[THeMaCHinE]

Inositol at 6+ grams over 3 doses helped me.

 

[Fonz]

I'm not talking about being depressed about size or strength losses. I'm talking about REAL depression. No appetite, sleeping alot, uncontrolable sadness.

I HAVE to change my behavior, It's fuckin with my marrage too.

If I go to the doc. I know he is just gonna prescribe an ssri, and I was on them once and they SUCK. (no more orgasms, I LIKE my orgasms.)

So I'm hoping a few more bros will answer.

HOW LONG WILL THIS LAST !?

I am certain it is cycle related.

Although I actually started feeling a bit better yesterday. I really cant take much more of this.

Thanks

Xyrem......best anti-depressant out there.

Fonz

 

[THeMaCHinE]

Anti-depressants so fuck you up in the long-term though -- I was on Prozac, then Effexor and became a fucking zombie -- no lows, but no highs either -- it was like walking through life asleep, no motivation.

Then there's coming off... Going off Effexor (one of the most powerful anti-a/anti-d out there), I was getting cramping, hot flashes, spots in my vision, anxiety, depression, headaches -- then I tried inositol (on the suggestion of GaryWary, who had also been an Effexor user) and *everything* went away. My point is to at least try the light-duty stuff first before you pull out the cannons. I think inositol or inositol + 5HPT is a good start; it wouldn't take very long to tell if it's working, and if it doesn't, move on...

IMHO