With tears streaming down my face I have very very reluctantly started taking the Sertraline. I've been up all night with my terrible obsessive thoughts and just cannot go on any longer.
I hope it starts to work quickly.
I feel beaten and defeated.
Please, if anyone out there with OCD knows Sertraline to help with this disorder, please respond.
My thanks.
Magda, please don't beat yourself up about taking the Sertraline, it is not a quick fix - but it WILL work - it does seem to help all aspects of anxiety, depression, & OCD, my consultant said to me that if we have diabetes - we take insulin, and if we have high blood pressure we take tabs for that, there is nothing different about our illness, sometimes we must take medication just to set us on the right path.
You will find great comfort from this site, if you feel you need to communicate I will look out for your posts.
Believe me I have been to hell & back - now I am leading a happy normal life. Sertraline & CBT have really helped, so allow yourself to be helped.
Kind regards
Annie
Hey
I am in the same boat........I have been on sertraline before, and I have just taken my first pill again :-(.
It is sooooo hard isn't it....trying to take control without medication...feeling determined. My health anxieties are just so bad right now that I feel like I am losing touch with what is and isn't important.
I hope the medication kicks in really quickly.....it is supposed to take a few weeks.....but I usually find four days and I start to calm down.
Good Luck
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Hey i feel the same way, i took sertraline about 4 years ago then i was moved to citilphram and i had to take my first sertraline again last week after a while of being off them. I used to feel like i had lost control once i started taking medication but I try not to think of it like that now. I am the same, up all night over thinking everything. I cry and fall weak and I feel so helpless a lot of the time. I just want some stablity. If the medication can help me be calm,its the start of me helping myself, with a calm and clear head.