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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, Informative) by HiThere on Saturday June 16 2018, @06:00PM
In that case you'd better stay young. I think I take seven meds a day for this and that. High blood pressure, etc. It doesn't cause me to be depressed. Occasionally angry, when I have trouble with the pharmacy, but not depressed, or even down. It's true that before I hit, I think it was, 60 I didn't need to take any meds. (I still took vitamin + mineral pills, but didn't worry if I missed them or ran out.) When I first go on one of those addictive medications (high blood pressure...it brings your blood pressure down, but if you stop taking it your blood pressure goes up even higher) I was quite resistant...and annoyed (largely at myself, because I knew it was my own fault). But not down.
Now I had a friend a bit before that who WAS on psychiatric medication. He hated the side effects, so every once in awhile he'd just stop taking them. In a month or so he'd end up in "the looney ward". But HE wasn't depressed. He had lots of other reactions, but depression wasn't one of them. (You'll get the wrong idea, but he was manic-depressive, but depressive in his case sure wasn't depression, it was more like paranoia.)
So a bad situation itself isn't sufficient to cause depression. Depression has multiple causes, and it's not just the same as being low energy, which can be a real problem, but there doesn't seem to be either a decent treatment for it or a decent percentage of cases being properly recognized. And it's probably not a single disease, but a syndrome, which can be caused by several unrelated causes. Some cases have been traced to problems with the mitochondria, but I suspect that's quite unusual.
But what you probably mean is not that you'd be depressed, but rather that you'd be down. Depression is something quite a bit different.
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