Why do antidepressants cause weight gain?

One of the uncommon side effects of Asertin (the active substance sertraline) is an increase in body weight. Weight gain is reported by 1 to 10 per 1,000 patients: https://www.gdziepolek.pl/produkty/7640/asertin-50-tabletki-powlekane/apteki However, the exact mechanism leading to weight gain has not yet been determined. According to one theory, antidepressants such as sertraline can increase the feeling of hunger. People using sertraline may also feel less satisfaction after eating. This causes them to eat larger portions containing more calories. The effect of the drug on metabolism, causing the body to consume fewer calories, is also not excluded. Another hypothesis is that people with depression often suffer from a lack of appetite and as their health improves, as their appetite increases, they gain weight. In the event that the weight gain is significant, I encourage you to consult your doctor. It is also possible to use the teleadvice offered m.in by the Gdziepolek.pl portal: https://www.gdziepolek.pl/telekonsultacja I also encourage you to report the occurrence of side effects of the drug Asertin. Reporting side effects allows you to increase control over medicines available on the market. We wrote more about how and why to report side effects in the article: https://www.gdziepolek.pl/artykuly/jak-i-dlaczego-zglaszac-dzialania-niepozadane I encourage you to read additional materials that may be useful: https://www.gdziepolek.pl/artykuly/otylosc-i-nadwaga https://www.gdziepolek.pl/artykuly/depresja https://www.gdziepolek.pl/artykuly/skuteczne-sposoby-na-stres https://www.gdziepolek.pl/artykuly/czy-bac-sie-dzialan-niepozadanych-lekow

To @Aggaa: Psychotropic drugs are a very wide group of drugs, please specify the question.

Do you get fat after psychetropic drugs?

To @Agnieszka: It is not possible to predict whether an adverse reaction in the form of weight gain will also occur in a given case.

And if I gained weight after parogenie, can the same happen after asertinie?

I just realized that I didn't feel as much hunger as I did after Aertin. I thought that the morning feeling even starved was a matter of not eating in the evening before bedtime. Despite the fact that now I try to be satiated before I go to bed, in the morning I still have such a sucking in my stomach that I feel bad. Sometimes I feel that it's not even about food, because, for example, I'm satiated, but about such a desire to taste on the tongue. I feel like pouring salt from the salt shaker and ciumkać. A few days I had like a pregnant woman some ride on pickled cucumbers, but I was flooded with saliva at the thought of them. Then yes with apricots. Every now and then the object changes for me, but the worst thing is when it does not direct itself and I feel this need for some taste. As if they starved me xd Interestingly, smoking cigarettes and coffee implemented somewhere during Asertin did not cause that this culinary carousel subsided .... Well, but for depression it works well, I feel cheerful, I FEEL. From stress I lost weight, maybe this wolf hunger will help, although it is troublesome to turn in the morning :/

I did not gain weight, but even lost weight. I reached the weight from 4 years ago :)

One thing puzzles me. This drug also treats obsessive-compulsive disorders, i.e. also overeating caused by stress and anxiety. So I'm surprised that people feel hunger after him despite having eaten. One contradicts the other.