I'd been on and off the stuff in the ten-year period between initial diagnosis and the point where it stopped working altogether, and in general what it did for me was take away the mental subroutines associated with my particular case of depression (the ones that kick in during every recollection, every self-conscious thought, that remind me that I am stupid, ugly, useless, that nothing I ever do will be worth anything, that people are being kind to me and pretending that I don't suck and then laughing about it once I go away, all that crap. Zoloft shut that voice in my head up, so that I could behave and react like a normal person.
Then it quit. And the voice came back, and it's still around two drugs later; but bupropion is working much better than duloxetine or whatever Cymbalta is. I hope you can find one that works on the anxiety without making you feel unmotivated.
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Date: 2008-07-16 12:05 am (UTC)Then it quit. And the voice came back, and it's still around two drugs later; but bupropion is working much better than duloxetine or whatever Cymbalta is. I hope you can find one that works on the anxiety without making you feel unmotivated.