Do Antidepressants Make You Dependent?

I find Wellbutrin very helpful it helps me focus and my anxiety is not as bad. However, Sometimes I am too emotional if I don't take it or I forget to take it does this happen to everyone else who takes Wellbutrin or forgets to take it. I am just wondering, If anyone else can relate?

I unfortunately feel the same way. If I'm off of my medication I'll do really bad things to myself. While it's not fun taking medicine, I think it's worth taking a tiny pill or a few a day to be stable.

I think once my life is more stable (I’m in college) I’ll be able to move away from being on medications. My sister is five years older and she’s no longer on lamotrigine. Honestly I’ll be sticking to my medications for the foreseeable future, but my mom has asked me if I think I’ll be on them for the rest of my life. My answer is yeah, probably. Right now I need a chemical solution because my brain is all out of whack. Maybe one day I’ll be able to live with my bipolar disorder and depression without medications, but it’s hard to know until I’m older. At this point I’ve been on and off antidepressants since I was 16, and those didn’t help much until I was also on lamotrigine for my bipolar. I’m on three different prescriptions daily, and it got a lot easier to take them regularly once I bought one of those weekly pill dividers. (I feel like an old lady) I fill it up once a week and I can hold myself accountable when I can physically see which days of the week I’ve taken my prescriptions.

Honestly no, I actually have a really hard time taking my meds regularly

Lamotrigine isn't an antidepressant it's a mood stabilizer. It treats from below and stabilizes from below, so it's technically an antidepressant mood stabilizer (as opposed to a manic mood stabilizer). That being said, yes I have felt like lamotrigine has message me emotionally flatlined so to speak. I have considered asking my psychiatrist if I can get off of it and just use my antipsychotic for my mood stabilizer.

I agree last time I went off them I was so depressed that I started thinking of ending my life.

I feel that way about lamotrigine. Tried to get off of it, and I ended up in the hospital 😔