hi, i'm just wondering if anyone here has an experience with adderall/adderall xr used to treat refractory depression. i have always had problems with SSRI drugs making me lazy, amotivated, and disinterested in everything. who doesn't, right? while they helped with depression, they also turn me into a wasteful lump.. which i cannot deal with.

even at low doses of SSRIs (paxil, lexapro, effexor), i lose interest in everything (even things i enjoy), i get very anti-social where i don't even want to talk to or spend time with my friends, i don't have any motivation to get anything done. psychiatrists have often tried to augment my SSRI with wellbutrin with very little success. i didn't actually feel depressed emotions, but my body itself seemed very depressed.

anyways, my current psychiatrist (considered by far the best and most experienced in my city) has placed me on a small dose of adderall xr to augument my lexapro, based on the fact that 300mg of wellbutrin caused only minimal improvement.

right now i am taking 20mg of lexapro and 10mg of adderall xr. i've only really been taking it about a week, and it's hard for me to tell how it is doing or not, since i am on summer break from college right now and really don't have anything to test it with. i do feel a small "crash" of sorts usually around 7-8 hours of taking it though, which i don't like. not an emotional crash, but a physical one, where i get really tired and usually have to take a nap to continue the day.

has anyone else had any experience with the SSRI+stimulant combination? particularly in regards to depression rather than ADHD. i would really like to learn from others' experiences in this area, although i don't think there will be many who have done this.