Medication provides people a space to manage their depression and gives therapy some time to work. The beginning is awful, but once you adapt to the new med on board, you are given the chance to learn to be yourself again and overcome the pain of depression in order to have faith in yourself and your future.
Medication sensitivity is not considered intolerance to the medicine itself--it is intolerance to side effects. All medications include side effects, and one of those is the main symptom/problem the medication is being taken to address. Sometimes, it is an issue of finding the medication that works the best with the least harmful side effects.
Doctors suggest several things to help patients combat medication sensitivity. "Start low and go slow." helps the body get used to the medication slowly, managing the most harmful side effects. A patient's emotional and personal dynamics may also play a role. Distrust of physicians in general, anger at being 'controlled', even transference may attach itself to the patient's experience of the medication.
Finally--medication sensitivity demands that the patient and the doctor work together, on the basic premise that the patient AND the doctor want to see results and a change in symptoms.
From http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/the-publication/past-issue-single-view/help-sensitive-patients-tolerate-medication/0c219c40c277c327ea07c967b11819a6.html
"I often tell patients, “You happen to be sensitive to side effects of medication. We might have to try a number of different medications before we find one that works and is tolerable. Furthermore, we need to start at a very low dose and take things very slowly.” This statement: recognizes and accepts patients’ sensitivity... and allows for externalization of some responsibility for troublesome side effects to the medication... [It] conveys a sense of therapeutic uncertainty [and] allows patients to undertake treatment at a comfortable pace.
Post Edited (Myself 09) : 7/9/2016 6:24:58 PM (GMT-6)