Your doctor may recommend an older tricyclic antidepressant such as imipramine (Tofranil) and doxepin (Sinequan). Although these can work well, a newer group of tricyclics for example, nortriptyline (Aventyl) and desipramine (Norpramin) seem to be better tolerated, especially by older people.
Depression can sap your strength, and take away all of your motivation and drive to live your life. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you had the ability to be in charge of and eliminate your depression just by having certain thoughts? I know that this sounds too good to be true, but quite often; various types of depression are only caused by having negative thoughts.
Some people call it the ‘blues’ and some people call it the ‘pits’ and some just call it ‘feeling down in the dumps’. But whatever you call it, being depressed is a terrible feeling.