Anyone develop OCD from taking sertraline?

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Had intrusive thoughts from zopiclone withdrawal took citalopram for couple months affected hair so swapped to sertraline gave me awful OCD keep checking things never had it before. Swapped back to citalopram but feeling whole lot worse on theses meds so weaning off. Had read on OCD forum it can be side effect of taking SSRI's . Convinced it caused having done bit research other people had same experience on it.

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