Zoloft for Life?
Tagged Under : Anxiety, Medication, Mental Health
I don’t know how many readers I have, yet, that suffer from anxiety like I do. Mainly social anxiety, but also generalized anxiety. I also have PTSD, about driving, but I’ve got that one mostly under control. I think. 
I can’t drive in the weather anymore, but it’s probably not good to drive in the snow storms anyway.
So, my therapist has actually told me that I probably need to be on Zoloft for the rest of my life. Because, basically, my brain is wonky. Ugh.
Well, I don’t want to be on it for the rest of my life. First off, I can’t sleep all that well anymore. However, I love not having an appetite. And as a matter of fact, when I’d get really anxious at home doing house work, I would feel a nagging hunger. At least it felt like hunger, but eating didn’t really get rid of it. Sitting down and relaxing pretty much did, though.
I don’t really believe in medication. In almost the next breath, my therapist said that so many meds are sold (for hypertension etc) which might only be because the pill companies want to make money.
So which is it? Is my brain wonky or are the drug companies wanting to make lots of money? Can we really know?
Does the Zoloft help me? Yes, it does. However, I’d rather retrain myself so that I don’t need it, eventually. I mean.. 200 years ago people had the same wonky brains, didn’t they? And they functioned… they lived okay. There were no meds. Is it our society that’s screwing us up? Have humans always been messed up and we just are realizing it now?
My true belief is that eventually, in a hundred years or more, we’ll find out that these drugs aren’t really good for us. They may even be harmful. There will be other options. What they will be, I don’t know. And for now we may be doing something akin to x-raying our feet at the shoe store to find our correct size (yes, they did really do that years ago). But what are we to do? Maybe I need more research. I reasearched extensively on PMS and hormones, maybe I need to do the same with this. Though I’m tired, and lazy now, and my anxiety comes up when I research anxiety. Catch-22, I guess.
*sigh*
[tags]anxiety, zoloft, social anxiety[/tags]
“Don’t sweat the small stuff”.
I think thats how ssri’s work, they just make you not care. That can be both a blessing and a curse.
Take care.
"Don't sweat the small stuff". I think thats how ssri's work, they just make you not care. That can be both a blessing and a curse. Take care.
Yeah.. not caring is both good and bad. I used to care too much, I think. I have a really bad emotional memory for things like that. Thanks for your visit.
Yeah.. not caring is both good and bad. I used to care too much, I think. I have a really bad emotional memory for things like that. Thanks for your visit.
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