- Date posted
- 1y ago
I’m super scared to take my new medication!
I don’t want any negative comments. I only want positive ones about your experience with Zoloft if that’s what you take.
I don’t want any negative comments. I only want positive ones about your experience with Zoloft if that’s what you take.
hi! i don’t take zoloft, but i take prozac which is the same class of medication and it helps me a lot! having the extra medication support was what i needed to not spiral out of control and focus on the behavioral stuff i wanted to work on :)
Hello, I've been on Zoloft for 5 years. There's nothing negative to say, it really helped me a lot. I started seeing its effect after a month approximately, it made me feel like I had so much more space in my mind, and my obsessive thoughts went away. Now I don't take it anymore only because I had to start taking other meds that are not compatible, but it was really helpful
I've had Zoloft and it has really helped me. At the moment I'm taking another medication but when I was taking it, it helped me.
Zoloft worked well for me! I didn’t have any negative side effects from it.
My Lexapro I was on for 15 years pooped out on me. I am now taking Zoloft for a week and 2 days. No changes yet but im hopeful.
Zoloft changed my life in ways I could have never imagined. I went from debilitating fear, to doing things I hadn’t done in years. If you’re anxious about the experience, I recommend asking your psychiatrist about liquid sertraline (Zoloft). I started taking tiny amounts diluted in water so that I could work my way up to a more real amount. Game changer. You got this!
@Anonymous Thank you!!! . I just took my first dose today and I’m so nervous but these comments (especially this one) makes me feel so much better about the process
@tylermatthewsnead Totally normal to be nervous. But take it from someone who sat with the medication on my desks for months. My one and only thought was “I can’t believe it took me so long to start doing this.” I’m rooting for you!
I’ve never taken Zoloft but I’ve heard many people did well with it! I’ve used Prozac in the past and it worked well and I’m actually about 6 days in starting it again! Any side effects you may experience do subside and once they do it’s like you got your brain back
Zoloft really have saved my life so many times. I always take it but I had different dossage in different times of my life. It's really good for OCD. I was 17 when I took it the first time and I was worried. But in a few weeks I could se the world in colours again.
Hello. I am a mom of a 15 yo who has been diagnosed with severe OCD and also depression and anxiety disorders. Medication was recommended. Specifically clomipramine. As of now he refuses to take it. Says he 50 % of the way considering it. He was not able to complete most of his HW last week, spends much of the day feeling anxious, isolates in his room for hours. Says he wants to try to manage it - says he’s doing better bc he was able to focus in his math class - says he doesn’t want med bc he is afraid it will mess w his mind (numb his feelings). Any advice for how to get him over this hump? Any good experience from med? It’s hard for me to watch him suffer knowing that med is an option and he could be feeling better. Also hard to watch him get zeros in classes when he is smart and capable. Thank you ahead of time. Also, his NOCD therapist is on vacation but had recommended med as well to help my son engage better in ERP
My mind keeps telling me “something is wrong with you. the weird feeling you are feeling or the weird tingling you are feeling or there is a weird mark on your body. Those are actually a severe symptom and by ignoring it you could die!” Or especially the constant, “go to the emergency room because this impending doom you are feeling, yeah that’s because your gonna die shortly” It doesn’t help whenever people say “well if something was wrong your body would tell you” because my mind keeps telling me that what I’m feeling is proof something is wrong and I need to get it checked out. That I actually am severely sick and that I need to get it checked out as soon as possible, that if I get one more test than I’ll be okay because it will prove nothing is wrong. How do I tell my mind that it’s just anxiety whenever my mind keeps telling me “well if you keep saying that you could be ignoring something more serious.” Or “the doctors are just brushing you off..something is wrong with you” It’s hard to live with my thoughts whenever they are constantly coming up with ways to challenge me and challenge logic. New reasons on why I need to get this checked out because “I’m just being ignored” or “no one is listening to me so I’ll just end up dying” My symptoms range from weak and shaking legs and body to dizzy and unbalanced and dissociated. Recently I’ve been getting this tingling feeling inside my head and on the back of my neck. And my temples have pressure on them. My body keeps coming up with new symptoms I need to worry about, whenever most of them are probably caused by severe and constant anxiety. So severe I can’t even leave the house because I constantly worry about whether this is severe and something will happen if I leave the house. I need immediate ways to start fixing this because it’s especially horrible whenever my period comes around and my anxiety/depression is already higher than usual. I’ve even started considering taking medication (Zoloft, 25mg) which is another trigger for me, I worry about the symptoms I might get from taking it. That’s how you know it’s gotten pretty bad whenever I’ve come to taking something that I’ve been actively avoiding. What are your thoughts? Do I take the medication? What are ways I can deal with my symptoms that seem so severe in the moment but pass by once I’m not anxious? What are ways my thoughts can ease and I stop taking every symptom as something serious, because at the end of the day my anxiety is most likely the reason I have these horrible symptoms. I’ve always been extremely healthy and everytime I go to the doctors they express how healthy I am with all the tests I’ve had.
I recently started medication as I have struggled with harm ocd. The thing is is that it’s not actually stopping the thoughts which I know is a given and it’s scaring me more without the anxiety (ruminating) and making me belive it’s possible. And I told this to my friend and she suggested anti psychotics This made me spiral because it made me think that I’m schizophrenia and no hate or judgment to people with schizophrenia it just scared me. I started worrying that I shouldn’t be around people and a horrible person ect I know reassurance is bad but I just need some advice bc I really don’t know what to do and I’m panicking
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