Hi everyone
Could you all please tell me when sertaline started to make you feel better just so I can compare
Thanks
Long and slow and not there yet. Been since early march 
For me, it's taken about three weeks on 200mg, more so after I changed from night to day. Interfering with stomach a lot though.
O how I wish 3weeks fixed me! Supouse I improved in this time. I'm now on 100mg and Dr wants to increase to 150mg but I'm scared coz a increase really unsettles me again but lower doses only work for a bit and don't keep me there
2-3 weeks after I started Year's ago at a much lower dose.
I dont understand why they have left me on this 3 1/2 months and I'm still depressed if others are better within weeks. I'm seen by home treatment weekly so I should Bevin good hands I seem to be getting there then drop again.
Rachel
i so understand. Had a low day myself. Tmrw I do my increase to 100 but I decided if I don't see a drastic improvement. I will switch. So frustrating.
lynda
Everyone is so different . All these anti depressants are like shooting a gun in the dark and hoping to hit something. The dose, the time of day, the persons own make up mentally and chemically. When I said 3 weeks, I'm not over my depression , but am getting a bit calmer at times. I've had depression since I was 18 in 1992 and been on so many I forget.my brother is also bi polar bless him, and he is in a state. He has tried to take his life 3 times, and has been in a psychiatric hospital for several months at a time . Guess there could be a family conevtion with self and depression
Sorry to hear your brother is unwell. Mental illness is awful and no one understands the pain if uv not been there. R u bi polar too? Yes ads do calm me that part works. Iv often wondered if I'm bipolar but I don't have any highs just go from normal to depressed.
No, I'm not bi polar although I too have wondered. I've had many cognitive behaviour counselling in past, and got a review with a psychiatrist as I thought I must have something as it seemed whenever anything went wrong in life, I become very stressed and breakdown. Psychiatrist said at most he thought I may have borderline personality, and that was that. I go through months being ok, then bang, few months of being very low and zero self belief. Father of 4 and husband to amazing wife, it is hard. Dr is now thinking I may have p t s d from my major. r accident in 1992 .
Its very hard. Iv boys 5 and 9 and a baby to care for who I love so much yet I feel I fail (although I know I'm Ill) I had postnatal depression after my other kids too with serve anxiety and some ocd to complete the hell. I get better for a bit well 90% and then boom I start feeling disconnected again and numb where nothing seems real (flat nothingness) can u relate? Im seen by the mental health team and the Dr is coming tomorrow. I just want me back ! I hope u recover and thoughts for u brother
I feel I have o c d but I'm told it's more like perfectionism . I'm always in the go and have to get everything in my mind completed .
I can relate to the flatness , but over time I've learnt that really, if possible, just go with it at times. I've read a lot about depression, anxiety etc, and read that these feelings are feelings, like happiness , and to not try to avoid or get upset having them, but try to be with it?? If it was so simple it'd be great hey . Have you looked at mindfulness reading aswell?
Good luck with Dr tomorrow! Keep us posted . Keep pushing in! Do you worry a lot? I do and not sure if this is the suspected p t s d or not, I'm learning that to worry constantly is a total waste of mental energy. Best of luck Rachel.
Worry me haha?? Yes and i make a small thing huge. I'm a loving happy person so how I ended up like this I don't know (Dr says it can strike anyone) I was a totally nut job at one point, my anxiety was like a 24hr panic and I couldn't sit still. I'd become dizzy and disconnected. If I stop and think back iv come along way its just awful how it's not all up hill
I started to feel relief at 8-10 weeks. Keep in mind everyone's body is different
Thanks fir your reply
What mg are you on ?
What did you notice when you first got better ?
My p Dr tells me coz iv had some improvements I need to just keep increasing and would only switch me if it had done nothing. Iv been were I can't function at all. Never suicidal just desperate for it to end. My life is special my children are my world ! I will not let to take me
Hi Rachel
another low day. What is with these meds? I didn't increase to 100 because I have things to do today and tmrw so will wait until Saturday. Just feel like crying. So frustrating. Just venting.
dear don45258
wish this words find you will, well it depends on person let me tell you through my reading to ppl posts at this website and other web sites i fond out human body respond to this med diffrently for some ppl it take a week or tow to feel beter for other it take 4 to 8 but the everage are around 3 to 4 weeks befor they get real benifit of this med , any how i want you to be strong and stick to this med cuse u gonna feel beter ,,
much love
Many thanks it's people like you that realy help us get though this thanks
Much love to u xx