here's the extent of my non-medical advise: 1. Find a clinician who will listen to you, if your doc is not listening, then you need a new doc/np/pa ASAP. 2. Find a psychiatrist as soon as you can and treasure them like Gold. Any family practice clinician like me has their GOTO drugs which work like 70-80% of the time, but they all have limits as to how far they can go in prescribing if the initial GOTO doesn't work. Psychiatrists have no such limits. 3. Never take a med that is making you feel worse. Actually this should have been number 1. If you have depression and anxiety and you are taking a pill that makes you feel helpless, you need to not be taking it. Im not saying stop cold turkey, I am saying, wean off the med under doctors orders and replace it with a new med. 4. Also allow meds to work. SSRI's are very slow to build up serotonin and its sort of rare that you will see a significant change in the first 4 weeks. However, you will see bad side effects almost immediately so for side effects I tell people to wait 2 weeks and if the side effects don't stop, come in and we change the med. 5. Don't take or request medical advise from redditors. no one should tell you what meds to take without knowing your history, and taking your physical. It like asking a mechanic on reddit how to fix your car because its making an odd noise.