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Suggest treatment or medication for clinical depression post a brain injury
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A decade of failed treatment and doctors using terms like I slipped through healthcare cracks Has left me with clinical depression and a untreated class2b brain injury which makes my anger and sadness uncontrollable and I have no willpower or drive(cannot force myself to do anything) My question is is there something( like a pill or treatment of sorts) that gives ..for a lack of terms, drive and willpower? Let me give you an example if I want to walk the dogs. I will get as far as walking out the door and than I start to feel exhausted and go back inside and lay down, but not sleep just get very down and think terrible . This happens with eating sleeping daily activities. Everything. Is very tedious. And very very hard to do even the smallest tasks without giving up before I even start. I ve gone through many councillors and talk therapy for a nuero-psychologist to say talk therapy would never help me. After he did testing of his own. Of course. Cause my huge file is never enough. And I ve tried countless anti depressants that all have had very bad effects or no help. I also went to a psych ward ( by choice of going to the hospital for depression and them sending me away in ambulance ) and they just sent me home Please help?. I m so tired of not being able to do anything or live any sort of life. And when I ask for anything to help drive they say there s no such thing. Yet when I search online people have similar problems with drive but have prescriptions that how they describe help that very feeling.
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. There are many options for treatment of depressive disorder with lack of drive. Most often the non addictive medications used include modafinil , armodafinil, methylphenidate in addition to antidepressants. Unfortunately none of them is over the counter medication and you need to get a prescription for same.Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.