Will anti depressants interfere or aid recovery from CPTSD?

[Matello]

I have been having counselling for 13 months. I feel I'm making little progress and have just had a heartbreak caused by limerance.
Other things are going on too. Friend is dying of cancer, elderly parent early stages of dementia and a pressured work life.
I feel overwhelmed.
My question is if I go to the doctor for medical help will this gloss over my CPTSD issues and make recovery harder?

 

[lisa67]

I have been having counselling for 13 months. I feel I'm making little progress and have just had a heartbreak caused by limerance.
Other things are going on too. Friend is dying of cancer, elderly parent early stages of dementia and a pressured work life.
I feel overwhelmed.
My question is if I go to the doctor for medical help will this gloss over my CPTSD issues and make recovery harder?

I have this same quandary. There are days I feel so low and anxious that I want to go back on a low dose of Fluroxetine which I know helps stabilise me but then as was mentioned, it'll be like doing the work twice. First the EMDR for CPTSD then getting off the Fluroxetine and still coping. I know Im so emotionally disregulatd at the moment and looking to numb all the feels tbh

 

[Deleted member 42984]

People are different, and respond differently to antidepressants, there aren't any conclusive answer to this.

Personally, I had to choose between the excrutiating horrible agony of being on Sertraline (which made any processing impossible, it was THAT bad) -- or just process the damn trauma.
I chose the latter.