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Feeling awful after almost 6 weeks from my increase from 100mg to 150mg of sertraline

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juliob
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I am starting to doubt if raising my dosage was the best option for me or even if I need to change meds. I started taking Zoloft 100mg for OCD but as some stuff in life made my intrusive thoughts stronger my doc decided to raise to 150mg almost 6 weeks ago.

Now, I do know that, specially for OCD patients, the medication can take 8 to 12 weeks to kick in. What is bothering me now is that I am feeling very depressed every afternoon, even considering I was feeling OK one or two weeks ago. Also, my obsessions seems stronger now.

So, my doubts are: is the progress of a raise always linear? I see so many threads where people report that it only gets better but even if I was better the previous week this one I feel bad. Is the 6 week mark a good reference to take any decision? Also, I wonder if those stuff is expected because I am talking about an increase on medication and all these reports of 8 weeks seems to consider the medication being introduced instead of raised.

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