Please Help! Major issue! ?!
Question: Please Help! Major issue! !?
I have been on zoloft for 7 years since I was 13!. I dont really think I was greatly depressed at 13, but I did get over the depression, although Im not sure if it was the medication or not!. Back then I also stuggled with ocd!.
with the help of my doctor I am trying to come off zoloft!. I went from 100mg down to 75mg 4 weeks ago!. Right now it is hard to find words, and i have a lack of thought!. I feel dumber!. I feel as though my personality is changing!. Its tough because I liked the personality I developed!.
Since I was on the medication at a young age it molded my personality, and now that I am withdrawaling my personality is slightly changing!. Im having EXTREME near constant anxiety, and I feel like I lost alot of what I worked hard on!.
every waking hour of the day is spent worrying if my mind will recover and if I can find my personality and mind again!.
Is this withdrawal, will it go away!?
What should I do!?
I want to go on and live a full life get a degree, get a good job, get married and have a family, but I cant do this if my mind is completely altered, and torn up!. Its hard to adjust to not having the zoloft!. I cant seem to live with or without the zoloft!. I really cant handle the side effects of the medication!.
should I give it more time!? Is this still withdrawal!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
with the help of my doctor I am trying to come off zoloft!. I went from 100mg down to 75mg 4 weeks ago!. Right now it is hard to find words, and i have a lack of thought!. I feel dumber!. I feel as though my personality is changing!. Its tough because I liked the personality I developed!.
Since I was on the medication at a young age it molded my personality, and now that I am withdrawaling my personality is slightly changing!. Im having EXTREME near constant anxiety, and I feel like I lost alot of what I worked hard on!.
every waking hour of the day is spent worrying if my mind will recover and if I can find my personality and mind again!.
Is this withdrawal, will it go away!?
What should I do!?
I want to go on and live a full life get a degree, get a good job, get married and have a family, but I cant do this if my mind is completely altered, and torn up!. Its hard to adjust to not having the zoloft!. I cant seem to live with or without the zoloft!. I really cant handle the side effects of the medication!.
should I give it more time!? Is this still withdrawal!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Stuff like this will only take some counseling and possibly rehab!. At most, if it's not too serious, it might take about two years!. Maybe more!. You have to face the facts that it's better to be fixing your head now than being stuck with a bead head for the rest of your life!. It'll all be worth it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
If you don't take care of yourself now, you could get much worse in the future!. You need to work these things out now!. You want to be at your best to meet someone special, or to land the best job, or get married and raise a family!. It is much harder to deal with it, when you are dealing with new changes in live!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Unfortunately you, like many other young people with psychiatric disorders, you will not only spend your 20's but also most of your life "trying to fix" your brain!. The good news is that it sounds like you doc listened to you when you told him you wanted off the meds!. Go in and talk to him about these new symptoms!. It could simply be that the zoloft was working and now at a lower dose you are experiencing what it would have been like without it!. Www@Answer-Health@Com