Mental health question

[cleolinda]

I'm curious--I'll get to what set off this train of thought later, but I know a number of people have talked about how they don't or didn't like Zoloft. For those of you who took it for a while and then went through the process of getting off it, what was that like? I'm thinking about transitioning off it entirely, and I'm curious about what kind of side effects that might involve. (Again, there's more to this that I'll get into later.)

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[newroticgirl.livejournal.com]

Have been on Zoloft (and more recently, generic zoloft equivalent) for years now.

Going off it is hard (for me). And hard to describe. For me, the main symptom is these weird "head rushes" that stick around for 10 days or so. It feels kind of like a rush of tingles going up the back of my head... but it's inside my head, too. There's a cottony sort of feeling, like I'm experiencing things from a good three feet farther away than I actually am. Makes it hard to keep up with conversations. Or drive.

Hard to describe... the only person I ever found who understood what I was trying to describe was someone who'd been on zoloft and gone off it. :(

(Going back on is much easier, I only really experience the loss of appetite for 2 weeks or so. I call it the "zoloft diet" har har.)