sertraline

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has anyone here ever taken sertraline my psychytrist wants to put me on it but im not sure about it should i go on it

It's generic for Zoloft. I'm on it, haven't had any problems with it. It's helped me with my anxiety.

I took it for 4 years and while at college( 3 years).

I tried it but I got a lot of muscle spasms so switched to venlafaxine - don`t take anything now

Sertraline Hydrochloride. I remember it (Lustral, Zoloft, etc). I was pretty useless for me. It might work for you. It is supposed to work on the limbic system for anxiety. That is pretty vague I know because the limbic system is for lots of things. It was supposed to work on the arousal state. Nope that has nothing to do with sexual arousal. It is the fight or flight system that releases adrenaline in your body. Problem is some people just release adrenaline regardless whether or not they are in arousal which ironically sets off, you guessed it, the arousal state. I found the drug made me feel s**t inside rather than outwardly showing anxiety. Also I was not myself, so my shrink couldn't do anything while I was on it. But these drugs affect people differently. It is for anxiety/depression/OCD. I’m not totally against drugs. I would munch anything if it had a chance to cure my cognitive dysfunction.

It helps me with my PTSD. I have been on it since August 2005.

i haven't had it myself but when I was a psych nurse I had a patient do really well on it.

Hi, yeah im on it for my depression and doing fine. No wierd side effects or anything. Just a low dose though. But, if you feel you could cope without it that would be MUCH better.

I wouldn't be typing this if I wasn't on it.... I'm unsure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It was prescribed for OCD and other anxiety disorders.

I was never diagnosed for depression or anything, but only because my mom told me it "wasn't real" when I came to her in tears, telling her I was really depressed and had thought about suicide.

I guess I'm better off without it, but I feel awfully low sometimes. But somehow I thought about it enough to arrive at the same conclusion as you, glad to hear it from somebody who has been diagnosed, even if this thread is none of my business.

she sounds like my mother.

Yes I've taken zoloft before but not for my spectrum dx. I took it because I have seasonal affective disorder and also had a few boughts of depression from understandable causes. I currently am supposed to take Sam-E and vitamin D. Probably part of why I've been feeling like crud. I've been suffereing from severe insomnia lately. I'm supposed to take Vitamin D because I have an absorption problem and I'm supposed to take Sam-E because it helps S.A.D. and FMS.

I hate psychiatrists and their psychotropic solutions. Fortunately I have regularly-done positive activities that lift my mood up enough to balance out most of the bad stuff.