Have you been prescribed by your Dr to Serotonin (ssri) before?

If this relationship is giving you hell, the only way out is to end it. No amount of medicine/exercise/religion or whatnot will help if you continue with this relationship.

That is better as you can identify this problem as the root cause of your issue. I dont know your gender, and also your type of relationship you are in, but relationship problem can basically be categorized into a few or a mixture of a few.

1. Cheating issue and trust issue
2. Money issue, other half spending and you are slaving and paying until sien kao liao
3. Verbal issue, talk very lanciao and hurting
4. Abusive and got fight and hitting
5. Family no supportive but you both still together
6. A mixture of above

I am not professional, but identifying the true root cause will help you tackle this. After you have identify it, then you need to inform the other side. Must be honest upfront telling he or she the root cause. Must be specific.

If it is cheating and trust issue, happen again and again, and you cannot take it, then chop it off
If money, can talk on spending behavior

If verbal, list down what kind of reply and speech will hurt you, and tell the other half how they should reply you in order not to hurt you, in a respectable fashion. Example, by adding, "do you think this a better option in front" and also telling other side not to get angry if you decide your way instead of their way

If abusive and fight, cannot take it, then chop it off
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While you try to drown your own in work, exercise, or wadever activities, the continuous repeatative hurt and insult might have put your mind in a state of "recalling those hurtful moment", and then your mind continue to dig deeper into it and keep thinking and getting worst and become depression and anxiety, hence the doctor prescribe you the medicine which slow your mind down into thinking too many things. But the side effect is, you will become too dependant on it, and got those side effect.

A better change to it is to practice your mind thoughts, as when your mind think about those bad moment, you need to shift it away by not drilling into it..it will kill your soul.
One of my ways is to listen to gospel soul music, those that preach to your heart and mind and affirming your life and soul and heal your wound. Make your eyes look at those lyrics, your mouth sing it out, and your brain process those words, then you will divert your mind into digging deeper to those depressive thoughts.

If you are a guy and had not been crying, maybe is time to cry it out loud and shed those tears out. It is totally alright to cry, you can start by crying out aloud as you listen to gospel soul music that heals your heart.

Write down the process flow in a paper and look at it as a manual tat when you are going into such, then what you need to do next to take it away from going into that. It takes practice to exercise your mind and brain..

I hope my sharing will help you a little bit by not being dependable solely on medicine. Medicine does help, but fully depend on it is not the solution. But to come out of it will  be the best

ts got try to bela pet ?

Do u have gastric issues? Both are interlinked with depression

Ts, exercises fixes depression.

1. Your heart will hate what it takes to be better. Start with walking. FORCE yourself to walk, use public transport, not just driving. Walking helps you to engage your body and brain where to go.

Depression is mostly a heart problem, medication doesn't solve heart problem but causes even more side effect. Unless depression anxiety runs in your fam, don't take. The pharma industry is evil and money driven, not mental health driven.

2. Talk to your good friends

Social support is so important. Ask old people secret to a long life, it's about social support. Find friends to talk to and encourage each other.
Anxiety is trying to control something that is out of your control. You see where the problem is.

1. Learn to let go.

As I write this, it's a reminder to ourselves to let go things we cannot control. We are not God so we don't play God. We do our part and pray for the best

2. Tame your monkey brain

I can relate this. Your monkey brain will kong kong kong what if and imagine the worse possible scenario. Truth is 80% of the time those imagined stuff won't happen. Our brain does this to defend ourselves from harm which is part of survival instinct but it can go extreme. So tame it.

Talk to your friends again. They won't have your monkey brain and will help you dissect the problem better
Look up to the sky and realize we are very tiny creature. World is so big. Our problems in our monkey brain is actually bacteria size small.

Life is very simple. We over complicate it.

NinG

Go buy 100% dark chocolate. Snack on them after every meal.
Not nice but very good for depression.

Nutricraft or realfoodsources.

Then get plenty of sunshine around 10am sunshine where you can feel the heat. Min 20-30 minutes a day.

Get shoden ashwanganda. You can buy from bestvites.

Then get magnesium taurate or magnesium glycinate.

Don't just depend on meds.

That's what I did for my family member with depression. Now off meds already

I don't know what religion are you, but learn to start meditation.

Go thai massage to relax body and mind

Thats a contributing factor..major or minor. There are a lot more contributing factor TS is aware or unaware of. Insight only can be gained with knowledge. If the mind and body is strong, emotion will be more resilliant.

How old are you TS if mind asking ? Early 20/30 or late 20/30.

By the way as another member said you need a psychologist/counsellor/therapist because physiatrist will just keep giving you pills to temporarily rest your mind. You need to solve the root cause to this. If relationship is the issue, perhaps look for couple therapy. I wish you well.

I went to my usual GP and was prescribed Xanax. I am almost to the point of abusing it because the dosage given to me no longer works. I don't really depend on it now because I still have to face my issues the next day.

I am in my late 30s here and dealing with stagnant life (in every aspect)
I feel like I have to live this way on autopilot until my last breathe for my sanity. Sometimes when the body and mind can no longer take it, you will be numb automatically as a way to cope.