zoloft

mushawah · 06-22-2008, 12:50 AM

does anyone else here take zoloft for SA and does it help???

lazylinepainter · 06-22-2008, 06:02 AM

I took zoloft a while back for my depression. It was okay for a little while, but then I started to feel angry, like really angry in a way I'd never felt before. So I was diagnosed SSRI-induced bipolar.

Other than that, I remember that it gave me really terrible night sweats :? Not pleasant.

mushawah · 06-22-2008, 07:42 PM

r u sayin the ssri made u bipolar?wut happened after u were diagnosed ssri induced bipolar?

cguitar13 · 06-23-2008, 06:52 AM

i have been taking it for about 2 years and it's helped me a lot. i used to get really bad panic attacks and ive only had one since i started and that was a little over a month after i started taking it. so for me, i feel that it has worked

i also think it helped with social anxiety because i wasnt so nervous talking to people after taking it.

lazylinepainter · 06-24-2008, 11:38 PM

SSRI-induced bipolar means that I become bipolar when I take them. I wasn't really anymore once I stopped, but I still don't really understand what it all means to be honest! Taking bipolar meds didn't help, and I actually developed an allergic reaction that almost became fatal.

When I was looking on Wikipedia's entry for social phobia, this one part stuck out to me: "studies show that more socially phobic patients treated with anti-depressant medication develop hypomania than non-phobic controls." Hypomania pretty accurately describes how I felt taking zoloft, so maybe this is a common problem for SA sufferers. I'd still give it a try of course, it looks like it's worked well for others!

mushawah · 06-25-2008, 12:19 AM

damn.i just started takin it,and i get really restless and hyper so that might be me too.but i decided to take them for now cuz it will probably help me get through work

VioletTears · 06-25-2008, 01:57 AM

I was on Zoloft but only for a month. It made me really anxious ALL the time for no reason and it made me more disconnected than ever... I FELT drugged, if that makes sense. But everyone is different so hopefully it works for you...

Great_Beyond · 06-25-2008, 02:11 AM

I do and it doesn't help at all, but I have to continue taking it because I'm going to college this year and my psychiatrist thinks I'll go throuhg withdrawl and it will cause problems.

froghat · 06-25-2008, 04:21 AM

Mush, I'm not on Zoloft, but I've been on Paxil for almost 2 months. I get that same restless feeling you are experiencing. I get very depressed if I'm just chilling around the house. I'm not sure if the Paxil is helping my anxiety or not though. I'm tempted to ask my doctor to raise the dosage and see if I can feel anything. Either way, I have to work on CBT with my therapist to get the best results.

uninspired_lady · 06-25-2008, 06:29 AM

I took Zoloft for about 10 months. I personally didn't think it worked the way i thought it would. For some reason it made me not care about a lot of things and I started getting irritated and having angry outbursts. I ended up getting fired from my job...apparently the pills made me 'crazy' and negative...at least that's what my ex supervisor said :(
I had to stop taking them shortly afterwards because I lost my health insurance when I lost my job. I did experience some withdrawal symptoms...tremors, weakness. Nothing too bad.