Seroquel saved me (depression and anxiety)

There is a lot of hate for Seroquel, but I wanted to share my experience.

Dx depression and anxiety in 2012. Tried over 15 meds, things work for a time and then stop. Two meds that worked for me were Trintellex and Lamictal - kept me above water and balanced my depression, anxiety, and moods. These have been my stable meds since then, but even on those, my depression came back with a VENGEANCE during Covid.

Got a new psych, after looking at my history, suspected that my depression is more mood based, whatever that means. Started trying me on a couple non-traditional things (in addition to Trint and Lamictal), then Seroquel. This med pulled me out of such a deep depression and has kept me stable ever since, the longest I’ve ever gone.

Moved and got a new psych again, who after working with me for a year was worried that I was overmedicated. My last psych ramped me up on Seroquel to 300 mg without really ever trying it on a lower dose. My new psych thinks that’s wild, since that does tends to be more for psychosis.

OK, now the point of my story. About six months ago, my psych wanted to try to bring me down on Seroquel, because she thinks I was on way too high a dose and she thought it might not be necessary for me. So we gradually go down, I’m OK, we go down, I’m OK, and then we stay at 50 mg because I was about to move and needed some stability. Things are fine, but I didn’t notice my state gradually getting worse until January, when I bottomed out and we realized my depression was back again. We had gone too low. Just took a couple months to really decline.

It’s been a month since then, and we’re now off to 100 mg. I feel like myself, I feel stable, I feel productive, I feel balanced, I feel GOOD.

I know that Seroquel doesn’t work for everyone, but for me, it was the one med that really allows me to live a good life. I know I’m an unusual case bc I don’t have psychosis or bipolar, but it works for me.