My doctor prescribed me prozac today for depression and anxiety. She assured me that despite some bad press it is approved and safe for use while breastfeeding. I have done a few searches regarding this and I am honestly scared, I can't seem to find anyone who recommends taking this while breastfeeding. I haven't started taking it yet and I do intend to ask the pharmacist and my baby's pediatrician I am just hoping someone out there will have had a similar situation and can offer some advice. I know the other option is Zoloft, but I have taken that in the past with no luck. I was still depressed, and very zombie-like. I don't really have the option not to take an antidepressant, I really need it so please don't tell me to drink miracle juice or have accupuncture. I need real advice. So what do you think? Do you have any experience in this matter?
By the way my baby is almost 9 months and also eats baby food, I pretty much just nurse her 2 or 3 times a day. I just don't know at what point the risks outweigh the benefits of breastfeeding.
I asked the pharmacist today and she said "take with caution" The bottle actually says "Do not breastfeed while taking this medication." I am still waiting to hear back from the pediatrician, but I am really having doubts that this is the right medication for me right now.

I got an invitation in the mail to be a motivational speaker at a youth correctional facility. I am a convicted Felon. What do you suggest? I am going to tell them very briefly about my crime and a little about my experience locked up and spend most of the time talking about my struggle on the outside and my major achievements since I"ve been out. Those include, Graduating High School, Having Accupuncture Treatment for anger and depression, Becomming a Crochet Teacher, Shaking my prosecutors hand at my church and stuff like that. Any suggestions? These kids will probally be violent offenders like me. I don't want to go into detail about my abuse that lead up to my crime. How do I pollitely avoid handle hard questions?
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I tried killing my mom and I assulted a corrections staff

Lets see...I have gone to PCP, Neurologist, Psychaitrist, Nutritionist, Endocrinologist and a Gastroenterologist. My symptoms started after a vigorous workout. All tests (Head MRI, CT, neck and head MRA) and blood work negative, except for a slightly elevated TSH. However, the detailed #s are in range. They say its not the problem. I started getting headaches, dizziness, anxiety and loss of appetite 3 weeks ago. I also have increasing insomnia. Now I still have problems sleeping and loss of appetite (I force myself), headaches and anxiety I believe is the cause of it. I never had anxiety before the workout. The anxiety comes in varying degrees and affects my positive thinking. It happened after using a machine squatting which has shoulder pads. I felt something tighten in my neck during that routine. The more intense, the less I can function and the more I withdraw. The less intense, the more normal I feel and my other senses like sleep and appetite seem to come back a bit. It seems like the symptoms are elevated when a headache or sensation is present between the back of head/neck region. My neck still gets stiff but mobile. The Psych thinks its depression, the Neurologist, PCP, Gastro and Endocrine people think its anxiety perhaps due to lack of sleep. They are all dismissing exercise as the cause of my symptoms. I think if I can shake the anxiety then I can get my sleeping pattern back and appetite too. I hate being dismissed as a quack, when I don't feel like my personality has changed, except I cannot show happiness due to the illness. I feel like my mind is being screwed with to make me think I am depressed so I can be a permanent patient.

I am going to an accupuncture specialist to concentrate on the neck and lower back of my head region.

there is a unofficial doctor i know who thinks im very smart and am good at everything and have good personality
but he doesn't know that i have depression(maybe), obsessive compulsive disorder, and anxiety disorder
most of the times, especially after seeing him for accupuncture, i re-wind and think about how i acted in front of him(i have a super memory and could remember every movement or smart things that i've done when he was looking at me)
i feel that im taking advantage of his thoughts
moreover, im reading his and his wife's mind and i feel that i need to tell him the disorders i have plus fainting because of the disorder, to change his mind
by reading their mind, i mean, they have a son, and i think that they might have thought of having me as a daugther-in-law, so im guilty because they're thinking that and they don't know that i have a mental illness, which will change their mind because im abnormal
im even guilty about emailing him, too
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im guilty about other things similar to this
when im guilty i can't do anything properly, losing confidence in everything and even movement
im thinking that i'll get punished, so i convince myself that im getting punished in every way
is punishment the difference between heaven and hell only or could people get punished somehow in their lives?
im seeing this doctor for something else, not about the mental disorders

About 3 months ago I was put on Wellbutrin for my problems with manic depression. It seemed as if I was getting worse, such as I was feeling more extreme bouts of anger, or would cry about the littlest things. I returned to the doctor that put me on the Wellbutrin, and he said to continue taking it. About a week ago, I started seeing a naturalpathic doctor instead. She thought that my depression was getting worse, and had me get off the Wellbutrin and gave me some natural tablets and a tincture to help with any anxiety, and to just calm me down, along with a plan for regular accupuncture. Now it seems as if I am feeling exactly the same way as I did when I was on the Wellbutrin, with more problems, like worse anxiety, I'm always shaking, paranoia, and I cannot think or hold a conversation. I hate to secondguess my doctor, but it seems that I should have been taken off the medicine gradually. Are these symptoms normal when coming off of Wellbutrin, or should I go see a different docor?

i have all the symptoms of depression because i am bipolar. i am on seroquel and trazodone. whenever i taper these meds down VERY slowly and with the help of a doctor, i can't at all or i feel horrible. are there any other treatments besides psychotherapy and traditional meds that could work? what about that magnet therapy (it's new i don't know what its called)?? i already tried accupuncture, herbal things, exercise and doing this i used to love. its just been no use.

Hello. This is going to seem like a strange story but, I'm at a crossroads and trying to work on my own self. What happened. I've gone through an awakening and through some depression. Grew up in an alcoholic family and there were dynamics for sure. I can really "see" the picture now, but, some of the energies and thought patterns prevail from time to time still. I go to a great Al Anon group. They have very good affirmations and stories and helps me to feel like what happened really did happen. So I'm doing "the work" in that direction. Spiritually I found something called www.thehealingcodes.com. With the depression which was really really "heavy", I was doing them 4-6 hours a day. I had withdrew my most my 401k of 20 years (please please don't go into the wrong of doing that..I know already....it's in the past...this is just where I'm at). I was an analyst and had a great job for 20 years (well 2...never been layed off..did the ladder climb and all that). So I used the money to pay bills, pay for the healing codes (the alex loyd version) and many sessions of that (they are helping...this is now 6 months later) accupuncture, colonics (to help with depression and start absorbing my nutrients better), some rolfing and some spiritual session work with some spiritualists in town.

I need strength, courage and support...I know I have the ability...but, I need a happy "turn around" story. A strength story...nothing negative. I've aborbed too much "it's my fault" from the alcoholic family dynamics and scapegoating thing and am working towards completely reversing and removing that pattern. I have a small debt problem and it's causing panic attacks and I'm mad at myself for getting here in the first place after all the work I've done the last 20 years.....need help from the abyss....something positive...I can't take cynical anymore...I don't think that should be a way of life.....Trying to learn to let other people's cynism and negative outlooks bounce off...I need an "out of the box" story.......

I have been feeling sick from allergy, and just had sinus infection. Went to see my conventional doctor. I still feel just not right, and started to feel aches and pain. I suffer depression and anxiety as well. Anyway, My friends has been telling me to go Holistic, not to go to a MD. So, I started to go to a holistic therapist Accupuncture / massage therapist. today, I went with a different conventional doctor, she said I am fine, but go see a psychiatrist I do not know what medicine is working or doing what and what I need or do not need anymore. And I do not feel just quite right with my body. I do not believe it has nothing to do with depression no anxiety. I am so lost do not know what to do.

I am fairly certain I'm clinically depressed (it's gone on for more than 2 weeks now) but I'd really rather not take any medications. Are there vitamins, accupuncture, detoxes or other things I could do to help?

I'm planning on upping my exercise routine too.

THANKS
Sully, I have a boyfriend. I'm depressed because of intense grief, not for a lack of love.
THANKS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!
And a special thanks to Phoebe. I wish I could pick two best answers!

I have had this problem for years and I am 35 now. I have been evaluated for depression, and it isn't that. I have seen lots of doctors, naturopathic doctors, accupuncture, do yoga, eat healthy, exercise, etc. Are there any mental problems, or even physical problems that have been overlooked?
Thanks for all of your replies, however most of them are things i have looked into. I have had a sleep study done recently, nothing unusual. Also an evaluation for adrenal failure, thyroid, the works. Chronic fatigue. I am a highly motivated and ambitious person. However I am constantly planning my day with periods of rest in between busy times. That is hard for me because I have alot of things I like to do, but not much energy for the fun things. I have brain fog alot and poor memory. Sometimes I feel limp and heavy like I cannot move very fast. Also, I have had my heart checked out. I am about to give up and just resign myself to live with it. I feel hopeless about seeing any more doctors, altho many have been very determined to try to help me. Just no luck. Starting to wonder about the cancer thing. I am absolutely NOT a hypochondriac, tho I am sure it is starting to sound like it.