I take 15mg of Mirtazapine (Remeron) at the moment. It helps quite well regarding my depression, even if sometimes I still have deep holes, but the amount reduced immensely. Also I eat and sleep much better. Had lack of appetite and insomnia before. Improving eat behavior and sleep has an clear impact on depression themselves, might be the reason why I feel better. 

Mirtazapine doesn‘t do very much like a magic pill but it‘s the only antidepressant that ever was effective somehow a least a little bit and I tried about 9 different ones of all the AD classes, as well as 3 therapies (1 behavioral, 2 depth psychological).

The big issue is it does nothing for my social anxiety. And for me social anxiety is the main source &amp; cause of my depression. 

Why? Because it has such a huge impact on life quality: friends, romantic relationships, career/jobs, university, isolating oneself, not going out, not doing sports and so on. All this leads to huge future anxiety because thinking you can never socialize, have real friends or real romantic relationships, never have a family or be a good husband and father, never feel like yourself at social events, never be able to do your job well because it‘s also connected with people at your workplace and so on. I don‘t want to go too deep into this. My therapist and me cleared this, social anxiety is the main source of my depression and the felt failure after going to a social as well as the felt failure if finding excuses to not go to social events and isolate throw me right back into depression.

So my questions:

1. What was your experience with Mirtazapine for social anxiety (regarding sociability, talkativeness, funniness, anxiety reduction, less thinking about what others think about you and what you do wrong etc)?

2. Was an increase of the mirtazapine dose from let‘s say 15mg to 30mg (as I think about to do) effective in reducing symptoms and being more effective for social anxiety and depression?

Would love and really really appreciate your experiences and any answers or tips! &lt;3