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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I used to date this girl for 2 years, loved her, cared about her, took her virginity. Alot of history there. Had our whole life planned out together. We broke up, she dated another guy for six months, I stayed single, hooked up with numerous other women. She’d still always try to talk to me when she was with him but i’d ignore her. We started talking again after he dumped her, she started talkin to me first, we’d hang out. Now we’re at a point where you can freely say we’re dealing, it’s been six months of us chilling again. Three things concern me…. 1. She told me she loves me again, I can’t say it back 2. She fucked this other guy twenty times, we had sex like twice in two years 3. She tells me she never let go of me, i always had a piece of her heart and she cared when she was with someone else…. thats a contridiciton in my opinion when she was fucking another guy or at least i don’t get how it works

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Some four years ago my love of 11 years cheated on me. She says it happened only once. She has a mental disorder and sometimes has to be hospitalized to get her meds adjusted so she can be well. Her cheating happened during one of these episodes. I have vowed to care for her for my whole life, but I can’t seem to love her as I once did. I tried for four years and we have had counseling. I trust her with everything, except my heart. I hurt inside so much of the time. I have none to give and get support from, to help me deal with this. My parents are dead and my brothers are asses. I have friends but they have a love for her which I would never want to damage by talking about this to them.
I just wish so very much that I can find away to be in love with her again. She was my love so much so that other woman even beautiful women were just people. I only had eyes for her and my heart was very happy. Now I see other woman and I wish at times that my love and I were not together. I Love Her

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Well, the title is not entirely my question, what I want to know is have I been going crazy my whole life or is my life just crazy. since i could ever remember I always found out answers to everything, whether it was me or friends I always loved finding answers and being right. as I got older I guess experimenting with drugs made me much more creative and relaxed I really like being creative, It makes me feel free. NE Ways, i am 35, feel like im 20, partied quite a bit in my teens and early 20s – now that I have grown up a bit I find myself trying to protect myself and others but it never seems to work all i do is hurt myself, what I mean by this is that through my 20′s I had a relationship and had 2 children, at first I was the responsible adult and worked hard for my family but after 5 years the relationship went sour and we split up, I got custody of my kids because i couldn’t deal with her life and I felt that my kids were never going to have the proper upbringing. so at that point were I lost control of my life, I somewhat fixed the pain by getting custody of my kids. well, since then I have been trying to be the best dad i can be but Instead I have become a dad that’s constantly worrying. I constantly have these real like moments of imagination, daydreaming but it feels real, but instead of daydreaming nice things it’s always things that can go wrong terribly wrong. I get anxiety , it brings on my OCD of checking if the doors are locked, are the seat belts working, is that car gonna swerve, etc but before i check the lock each and every time I see one of my kids falling out of the car, vividly. It feels terrible, I can be at work and all of a sudden I have a thought of one of my kids getting hit by a car while walking home. anxiety with every thought comes and goes all day, and I have started to ignore the thoughts but they still get in my head somehow. I have since married to a wonderful girl and had 2 more children and now I have 5 people to be constantly worried about. I know that most of this doesn’t make sense but I AM GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS.

During the first year of my new relationship with my current wife we became pregnant and we also discovered that we both had HPV,
A hole new set of issues came to play about a month after this discovery, and it is a large reason for this rant, I have become more and more uneasy on the subject of having sex. I don’t crave it like I used to, it makes me nauseous to think about it, there are times that I don’t care and it’s great but they don’t come around very often.

I ultimately & intimately feel unworthy of making love. It does not bother my wife but it just urks me out. this issue combined with the first issue, ocd and anxiety, not to mention all the stress this brings on, I feel crazy. I have found that vicodin helps me with my over thinking and stress but does not help in bed. plus I really dint want to self medicate the issue that way.

my simple question to everything is, I am afraid of losing my job if I go see professional help. I want to feel better but I don’t want to lose everything I have built. – what are some suggestions out there from some sane ppl. there’s so much more to my complicated life. these are just the highlights. if anyone wants to edit this and make sense of it be my guest.

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