Zoloft Withdrawal

I have taking Zoloft for about 8 years now. My life was in turmoil at the time I started. I was suicidal, always enraged, so easily frustrated and angered.

I had low self-esteem, feelings of worthlessness and the dreaded "helplessness and hopelessness", it was a viscious cycle and I felt trapped. I would cry all the time, preferred to be alone and made an effort to isolate my self. When I found out my husband was injecting Heroin and OxyContin and using my insulin syringes, that made things even worse, we were newly-weds.

I had always felt "sad" and "alone" my life. My brother attempted suicide with his Tri-Cyclics, and depression seemed to run in the family. I tried Same-E, St. John's wart with limited sucess.

I finally had a severe depressive episode in late summer of 2003. Once I recovered, I realized there were a lot of things in my life that would cause anyone to be dpressed. One by one, starting in 2004 on my 30th birthday, I began to eliminate the negative, starting with asking my husband to leave and for a divorce, which I still have yet to follow through with. He lives in CA, and I'm in MA, we're better friends now than we ever were.

Anyway, Here I am 8 years later and things could never be better, or so it seems from the outside looking in. I have a new job that I was recommended for, I didn't need an interview, and it was a promotion. I am in a relationship after several months to a year of dating. He is wonderful.

I am living on my own for the first time, and it's great to come home to my cat who loves me unconditionally. I recently decided that since my life honestly has never been better, I would like to see if I still needed to be on Zoloft. 3 months ago I started tapering down. Originally I was up to 150mg QD. For the next month, I went to 100mg QD, then 50mg QD for the past month. This past Sunday 4/9 I started on 25mg which I plan on taking for another 30 days.

Since Sunday, and today is Tuesday 4/11 I feel like I did before I started Zoloft. I feel enraged at the littlest things, tasks seem more challenging than ever before, I am having thoughts that I would like to break and destroy things. I am feeling so desperate, and so badly want to beleive that this is just Zoloft's last attempt at trying to keep me hooked but am scared that maybe I really do need it.

I am the type of person who likes to do my own research. I have an appointment with my psychiatrist in about 2 weeks. I know she will tell me that my symptoms mean that I need to be on this medicine, but I also know that doctors ge kick-backs from the pharmaceutical industries for prescribing their drugs, Zoloft still does not have a generic form. That probably sounded really paranoid, lol, but it really does happen.

I just need someone to tell me "This too shall pass", and that this indeed the final stages of Zoloft withdrawal. I don't know if there's anyone out there sure enough or brave enough to do that. Maybe it's not even true. I don't know. I do know that I can't go on feeling this way. I don't crave the drug itself. But maybe I need to just go back on it.

I wish someone had warned me this could happen down the line. The doctor made it sound like I could stop whenever I was ready to try. That is probably the biggest lie I have ever been told.

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