I like driving a car, but I want to avoid narrow roads and roads with a lot of traffic because it is stressful.
Recently, when I saw the news of an accident in which a light car hit an elementary school student and killed him, and a bus in Kobe got stuck in a pedestrian crossing and killed and injured more than 10 people, he said, "I have to be careful when driving." I think, but sometimes I think that I am in a position to take medicine for depressive symptoms regularly.
Some medicines say, "Don't drive a car or operate a machine," but I wonder if antidepressants and psychotropic drugs for depression are okay.
Driving a car when depressive symptoms are severe is preceded by negative images and negative thoughts, which makes driving anxious, but I personally think that it is okay if I take medicine and calm down. I do.
Is it okay to take medicine for depression and drive? Research
So, it seems that there was a university that was asking such questions.
In 2017, Ludwig Maximilian University in Germany searched and reviewed research treatises such as experiments on the effects of antidepressants on driving performance.
So, the result is as follows.
Twenty-eight studies were extracted from this review, but only five studies investigated the driving performance of antidepressant-treated patients.
Most tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants, with the exception of mianserin, had a significant adverse effect on driving performance and were attenuated after subchronic use.
• SSRIs and SNRIs such as venlafaxine and milnacipran did not affect driving performance.
-Trazodone is considered to have a dose-dependent acute effect.
-Acute use of mirtazapine was affected by nocturnal administration, but was not observed in healthy subjects after low dose or repeated administration.
-The additional effect of alcohol was most pronounced in sedative antidepressants.
• Many patients are expected to benefit from new antidepressant treatments for car driving skills.
Finally, the researchers "with respect to automobile driving performance, which in order to antidepressant therapy is to clarify the issue of whether the most useful for the patient, more research is needed by the patient," so that together with, in other words , do not say categorically if not more research and.
That said, as far as the results are concerned, there are no negative benefits or disadvantages, and the benefits are noticed, saying, "Many patients have the benefits of new antidepressant treatments for car driving skills." So, you don't have to worry about "I'm driving, so I'll stop taking medicine", but rather it may be better to take medicine positively and relieve depressive symptoms while driving.
However, you should still check the medicine that makes you sleepy. Antidepressants and psychotropic drugs may refresh the brain, but on the contrary, it is a drug for the purpose of calming, and depending on the compatibility with humans, it may be a bad effect to make the brain vague.
Well, in the end, it means "ask your doctor" .
Also, I think that many people are prescribed sleep-inducing agents together, but be careful not to take it before driving by mistake. Don't be like Mr. Tsutsumita of Impulse, a comedian.
Needless to say, driving in a state of depression and anxiety and tension is bad, isn't it? It's better to stop, it's dangerous.
My depressive symptom suddenly worsened due to power harassment and mobbing, and I suddenly became panicked, and I urgently drove to my doctor, but it was very dangerous.
I felt that my cognitive function was not normal, and I was scared while driving, and I was very slow and careful about safe driving, but I was still driving with fear.
You probably couldn't choose the right action because you wanted to talk to your doctor as soon as possible, so it's a place where you can go by train.
If you have suicidal ideation, you might think that you should just dive from the cliff by car. It's scary. It's no good.
At the end, it became a topic that has nothing to do with the title, but I will introduce an article related to it because I should not think too much. If you like, please read it together.