Can't Stand Feeling This Way Any Longer :(

i am so sorry to hear this.

i just wanted to say tread carefully with getting off the sertraline. It certainly doesn't happen to everyone and I don't want to worry u but it can give u withdrawal symptoms. Cold turkey isn't a good idea. Better to titrate off slowly. I understand u wanting off this drug, it's an awful drug. I just wouldn't want u to get hit with withdrawals. I've been hit hard with withdrawal and I titrated off..just too fast.

hope I haven't alarmed u. I just want to protect you.

what ever you take you will have adverse reactions to any thing as your body does not want it in. 

if you carry on your body will like it and you willl have o go cold turky to come off. 

you need to look at your life and make a change do some thing different and when you do good pat your self on the back. life every now and then taps us on our shoulders and trys to tell us to back off or slow down or have fun. we ignor then your body goes into shock and force you to slow down (depression anxiaty)

i would go to your doc tell tem to put you on a cbt course to make you understand what has been going on. and if you can afford it see a hypotherpist they are experts with the brain and they wiil help .

it did for me i feel better than any thing now .

when was the last time you had a really good laugh and tell your self you a great you are positive ? i was taking these pills for 8 weeks and i decided enough was enough and i stopped . i have no reactions at all .i am back on top form i have found my smile .wife is happy i got my sex life back ,lol

i would try hypnosis its about £60 an hour and about 5 to 8 sessions. he gives you a tape or c/d at the end of it for you to listen and understand. and goes over all your concerns . he put you right back in the room when you play it, i have a file i could send you which he gave me to break up your thought patterns like ocd worrying about shit. its called a click track and it and the asks  you to focus on an event and i felling you had with that and listen to what he asking you to do . yo have to tape you left and right hand to tones on the cd ,listen to his voice and focus on the event or feelinngs .and i gaurantee you ,you will feel better.?

Everyone reading this post can relate to 'what's the point?"! The unfortunate truth, when it comes to all of these phsyce meds, is that we are ALL guinea pigs. There is no decisive map when it comes to our minds. They give you a med much like a map to a foreign city. Then, six months later, they ask it you've made it to your destination. When you describe your surroundings to them they admit you are not in the right city. They give you another med hoping THAT med will get you to your destination.

And so the circle goes...

Each time you describe your surroundings given the 'map' they have prescribed.  Some people find the right place the first time. Most have to take the long drive taking many different routes [or meds]. There probably aren't many people who find the right one with the first attempt. It sounds like that's where you are now.

I, too, think you should titrate off this med with the help of your doctor. Going off these kinds of meds cold turkey can cause a temporary state of psychosis. This further  increases your frustration and depressive thinking, 'what's the point?'.  

We are all gueina pigs in psychology. It's nearly a crap-shoot. You are certainly not alone. Step off this med slowly and patiently. The withdrawal side effects may trick you into thinking you still need the med. Talk therapy might help you organize things in your mind. It should help you stabilize at each step. 

Good luck. We will all be hoping and praying for your health!

I just wanted to say I decided to go cold turkey after stopping Sertraline for 6 weeks, as I have been on them for quite a while.  It was not a good idea and last Friday I crashed.  With good advice from this forum I have gone back on them and have decided to give it a month and come off them slowly with help from my GP, I'm sure this is the best way to go.  5 days on and my mood is getting better.  Hope this is helpful.

I'm so sorry to hear how bad you're feeling, and that you have lost your job. That is terribly sad news, and there will be a solution out there for you somewhere - but if you go cold turkey on sertraline you will wish you felt like you did now, which may sound incomprehendible.

I wish you all the very best of luck, it's a horrid place to be in (& I speak from experience), but go and talk to your doctor for alternatives before doing anything drastic.

All the best

Bella