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1 in 3 Adults In The U.S. Take Medications That Can Cause Depression. These drugs already list depression as a possible symptom:
If you take Prilosec or Zantac for acid reflux, a beta blocker for high blood pressure, or Xanax for anxiety, you may be increasing your risk of depression.
More than 200 common medications sold in the U.S. include depression as a potential side effect. Sometimes, the risk stems from taking several drugs at the same time. Now, a new study finds people who take these medicines are, in fact, more likely to be depressed.
The list includes a wide range of commonly taken medications. Among them are certain types of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) (used to treat acid reflux), beta blockers, anxiety drugs, painkillers including ibuprofen, ACE inhibitors (used to treat high blood pressure), and anti-convulsant drugs.
I often take Zantac or Rantab for acid reflux. I used to take the beta blocker propanolol for the hand tremor caused by the anti-convulsant Depakote.
About 15 percent of participants who simultaneously used three or more of these drugs were depressed. By comparison, among participants who didn't use any of the medications, just 5 percent were depressed. Even those who used just one of these medications were at slightly higher risk of depression: About 7 percent were depressed.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Aiwendil on Saturday June 16 2018, @07:29AM
I only have tried classes of the lsted stuff - betablocker and anti-anxiety meds. I also tend to read up quite a bit on medicine I take (due to responding weirdly some common stuff might include a mild case of death).
* Regarding beta-blockers - they are supposed to make you depressed if you chomp on them like you do candy. Seriously, their entire purpose is to block the response to epinedrine/adrenaline. That is the stuff that makes you physically perform better, longer, and be less aware of injuries. Being without it give a sense of mild disconnect from the world and that everything has a flat monotone sense to it. This very effect is why it is so darn effective against anxiety and anxiety-inducing events (like stage fright). But unless you are used to deal with being stuck in tedium for long periods of times then its long term use will cause you to assume any interruptions will go away.
This also makes them very good at making anxiety stay away by just being available.
* Anti-anxiety meds. You know those days when your head feels like it is full of cotton and everything seems distant. There is a couple of classes of drugs that causes that, we call them anti-axiety medicines. Se latter half of the beta-blockers rant for the effect.
Really, what the heck did people expect from meds that severly messes with the fight or flight horomones as well as with the hormones that causes addiction and a sense of pleasure? That you'd feel happy all the time? (Well ok, some do, but they tend to be extremly pleasant to trip on and usually ends up being banned as part of drug control)