Can't find my antidepressants

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I've misplaced my antidepressants, so I've been off them for a couple of days. I'm still taking my mood stabilizer, but my mood is still plummeting to the ground. I'm drowning in feelings of hopelessness, and when I get like this I wish I'd never existed. I don't want to die; I just don't want to be at all.

After all, if there were no me, there would be no me to feel pain. Furthermore, there would be no me to care that I would have never felt happiness.

I could be replaced by someone who is not me, so nobody would have ever missed my presence because someone else, probably someone who would do a lot better job in life, would be there for them instead.

The idea of death is marred by my Christian upbringing--what if there really is a hell?--but just nonexistence, that would suit me fine.

Hi, this is almost a medical emergency. And it might be an example that the biochem and philosophic can swirl together.

With some people, an abrupt discontinuance of an SSRI like Prozac or Zoloft can be like kicking out the bottom of the bucket. And maybe what you're talking about with your mood plummeting to the ground. (and probably other medicines as well)

Please call your regular doctor and tell him or her that the antidepressants were misplaced and things are bad. As a backup, if you can't get him or her on the phone, I mean really consider going down to the local emergency room.

This IS a medical emergency!
Find your meds now! Or get a friend to call your primary care doctor, or go to urgent care, or hospital NOW.
Don't screw around with this! Stabilize NOW worry about embarrassment later!

Hello, folks, I am sorry I worried you so. I actually did find my antidepressants, at last, and took a half dose.

I am not going to harm myself or anyone else, either. I've been through all of this many times before and under even more awful circumstances. Truth is, I'm just not a violent person.

Hi, just to lay my cards on the table, I have not yet tried antidepressants myself, but they are kind of my ace in the hole.

I have struggled with periods of pretty bad depression, other people may well have experienced worse, but some of my periods have been bad enough

One thing, I think I'm now more confident talking with doctors, and I've read up on some stuff.

I think you probably made a good decision taking half a dose.

Now, if you can get your doctor on the phone, maybe with just a couple of days, it would be safe to go back to a full dose. But it is a holiday weekend and might be hard, not impossible, to get the doctor on the phone.

And please keep using us as a resource. We can all learn from each other.