Some of these people commenting who have been in it a few months :((( 3 years for me. In the beginning I just wanted to feel like I used to and be the cheerful and bubbly person I was before. Two years in, I got to the point of not even really being able to remember what it was like being happy. Of what “before” was like. What got me out of it: Lamictal. I would compare it to when people say they’ve found God and their world changed and all that. It was so hard to get there and I tried over a dozen medications that never worked and made things worse. I’ve been on Lamictal for 11 months now and I haven’t had even been ‘low’ in 10 months. Finding out I needed a mood stabilizer instead of antidepressants was the key. It’s extremely scary to me to look back on how bad it was for me for those 3 years.