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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[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

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.