This is all true, but you should try not overeating on mirtazapine. I have been on both luvox and mirtazapine (and a ton of other meds), and mirtazapine makes luvox look like a diet pill.

I used to be completely obsessed with carbs and sugar, and I was constantly starving. I don't just mean hungry, I mean...so painfully hungry that it would make me cry, and no food would satisfy me. If I didn't have any sweets in the house, I would compulsively eat entire loaves of bread or sugar from the package with a spoon before I even realised what I was doing. I even drank a bottle of ketchup, once. If I managed to resist the hunger and just go to bed at night, I would have vivid dreams about eating the foods I wanted, and a couple of times I got up half-asleep in the middle of the night and ate in a stupor before nodding back off.

It wasn't just me, either - I stayed on a psychiatric inpatient ward for about a year, and all the patients who took mirtazapine (or zyprexa, which is just as bad) could be seen buying copious amounts of junk food from the hospital vending machine every night before lights out, because they were just...starving.

There's a reason that people gain tons of weight on mirtazapine, and it isn't as simple as just not eating. Some people may only be mildly affected by the drug and are able to control themselves, but the majority of mirtazapine recipients I have talked to have very little power over their overwhelming desire to binge eat. Of course, the drug is worth it if you have treatment refractory depression and nothing else has worked, but that's the only situation in which I would ever recommend giving it to someone.