This is a VERY hard question. Experts only, please.

I have a wife who suffers from depression. She has been on anti-depressants and they worked, but left her feeling neutral while on them, rather than happy and sad.

She is now off the medications (and has been for a couple years). Lately, she has been having depression strike in place of emotions like happiness or love. Instead of feeling the good stuff, she feels that feeling we get when we break up with someone.

My theory is that we could find a substance for her to take when she improperly dips into that pain (the breakup pain), and that alleviates it just like an aspirin alleviates a headache, then it might free her mind to feel happiness again.

Does anyone know of a substance that works fairly quickly that she doesn’t have to stay on, but can take more like an aspirin? Something that alleviates the symptoms, but isn’t an "anti-depressant" like Celexa or something?

Natural substances, illegal substances, medications
A little addition, in response to some of the first answers (and thank you VERY much for these first answers!):

Yes, ideally we would like something that isn’t addictive. That’s a bad problem. Also, won’t being on anti-depressants her whole life kill her? What about the liver damage?

Thanks.

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Yea, basically what the question said… My cold is getting really bad. Today I didn’t want to sniff or blow my nose in my exam so I held out for 3 hours. Afterwards, I went to the toilet and blew my nose and the sheer amount of boogies was sickening! I would say there was about 15-20ml+ of the green goo.

I haven’t been looking after myself, as I say "examinations come first"… "you pass all of these and you’ll be better off in the long-run". But its wearing me down and I look terrible because I haven’t slept + you could see that I am not physically healthy at the moment.

Anyway, I thought I was too cool for school simultaneously dealing breakup, anxiety with severe paranoia, countless hours of cramming, Heartache and Headache. Emotional Strain. I am getting carried away here, eh? I am just wondering if anyone has any tips on how I can get over this infection asap? M x
dealing with* yada yada yada, I am not inflicting all that stuff upon someone else ^^

PS. They are uni exams so they are important

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