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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[oasis-beatles.livejournal.com]

I was on zoloft for a few years in my early teens, and I, as a silly naiive teenager, decided to take it upon myself to go cold turkey, which was terrible. I had really odd dizzy spells, and I felt outside myself a lot... but the cool thing? I could actually feel different emotions... like on zoloft I was very numb, but after getting off of it, I was happier, sadder, angrier... everything-er... and it may sound bad... like, why would someone want to be angrier? Well, angry is better than apathy, and happy is better than mellow...
I mean, it did work well for the years that I took it, but I just hate taking pills in gerenal. They are so mood altering.