Are there any side effects of long term antidepressant use?

Question

Are there any long term safety problems of taking antidepressants?

Anyone here who has taken or know someone that has taken antidepressants consistently for years, and if so, did you or they experience any effects such as memory loss, cognitive decline, etc?

Answer 1

Antidepressants can help with your depression but sometimes taking antidepressants can make your depression worse.

It actually did make my depression worse than it was so my doctor took me off of them.

Answer 2

I'm on depression medication and sometimes it does start to actually make me feel more depressed instead of not being depressed.

When I start to get depressed when taking the antidepressants I just quit taking them for awhile then I'm not as depressed but then when I take them again when I'm feeling depressed again it helps with my depression.