Works better for Loneliness SSRIs or Trcyclic

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What antidepression works better Works for Loneliness SSRIs or Trcyclic. Any comments.

It isn't terribly useful to ask for the input of others in the area of antidepressants. What works great for one person may not work that great for someone else, if it works at all.

SSRIs (several different ones) never seemed to do anything for me. The one tricyclic that I took at a low dose for insomnia seemed to help with general anxiety, but also left me feeling "high" at times.

I have no idea if there's a medication that would help "treat" loneliness.

Is the loneliness causing you to feel depressed?

No medication will cure loneliness; but engaging in an activity where you are surrounded by people...go to the shopping mall,
the library, take a college course, go to an arcade, the movies, the zoo, get involve with a church, etc will at least make you feel less alone.

I don't know if I entirely agree with that. In the past, there have been times where I felt the most alone when I was surrounded by people.

The church suggestion was a good one, even if it isn't one I would go for. Some level of interaction would likely be helpful. I'm not really sure what other opportunities for that could be made.

The college course might allow for it. At that point it is more an issue of taking the opportunity than anything else, I don't think I really did that in most of my classes.

We are all so much together in this world and yet, we are all dying of loneliness.

Oh, to have reached the point of death only to have discovered one has never lived at all! One has to motivate oneself and get
out and live...somehow, even if only in a small way.

Somehow being busy doen't help. When I it was my first experiance on the motoway, while I was pre-occupied with staying alive at 70mph and not getting lost, the overwelming feeling was of loneliness. I remember one time I passed my Sun Java Certification when I passed I look just as bad after I have taken it.

One of my friends who suffers from the same kind of loneliness as me, had possitive results from fluoxetine. But it become less effective over time. So from my experiance loneliness can be cured to a curtian extent by antidepressents. He just might have to cycle between different antidepressents.

I have tried quite a few different anti depressants, several different SSRIs and tricyclics, I'm not sure I could say which made me feel least lonely, though I would guess it would be those with the greatest serotonergic properties, as that is thought to be the most important neurotransmitter in terms of "contentness".

The biggest problem for me in selecting antidepressants has been in the benefit vs side effect equation.. unfortunately the stronger the antidepressant the stronger the side effects. Currently I'm taking 20mg Escitalopram with 75mg of Nortriptyline, I have found that combination to be quite helpful with an acceptable level of side effects. In my experience it can be quite difficult to get such a combination prescribed in the UK though, the ethos here is sometimes overly cautious, and dare I say it a bit ignorant in my experience.. almost in a NHS/knee jerk "oh we don't do things as haphazardly as the Americans" kinda way.