If Setraline worked for you, please read and join the discussion???

Treatment and medication
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Hi everybody. So this is my third post in two days about Setraline. I am in week four right now. The entire time except for this week, i thought it was awful medication that just added to the problems ive already been having. In this week my TON of side effects almost completely dissapeared and i'm finally feeling the need, the urge to keep playing this game we call life

Please share your positive stories about setraline. Because like i did, many other people are just starting it, and are thinking and feeling its a dead end street.

And nobody deserves to feel that helpless. Everybody needs to have hope. I browsed the internet for days on end about positive setraline stories and each time i found one i was happy and hopeful, and i think thats what made me continue it. Those few positive stories. I'm so happy to say i now have a positive story too

Here is how setraline positively effected me.

First of all - on my time of the month depression and anxiety hit me a million times harder than usual. I had thoughts about suicide, kept crying, couldnt get out of bed. On Setraline in my fourth week my period started. And to my amazement, i got out of bed. I was in the mood to do things, get out of the house, laugh and make jokes. So that right there is already the BIGGEST improvement i made in two years.

I also feel more calm - not the scary and zombie sortof calm, just an inner calm letting me know everything is okay.

It also took me a little out of my own head. Before i was overthinking everything. Me and a friend could have gotten into an argument, and i overthinked every word he said to me for days. He already forgot about everything that was said, and i still hammered on it, being mad about it.

Setraline got me excited about small things again. While i was under a cloud of extreme depression and anxiety i was completely happy with sitting on the couch the entire day watching movies or reading. Now i actually want to go outside, i want to be part of life and things that are happening in it. Things that felt like chores are now quite fun, like going to the salon, shopping, cooking, spending time with my family. Laughing...laughing seemed like the biggest chore, and now i laugh and its wonderful. I even bath my dogs and have more fun than they do.

My head is quiet for the first time in so long, again, not the scary zombie sortof quiet, i'm not unable to think or feel anything. I'm just more calm, like inner calm.

Everyone in my life is stunned by me this week, on my fourth week on Setraline and may i also add again, on my period Because that's usually when it hit me the hardest of all. And what i'm feeling this week will make me continue Setraline and encourage others to atleast give it a fair try. You are welcome to read my other two posts on the side effects, i had them also, very badly. But it was worth it for me to wait them out.

I am a 23 year old woman who has never in 21 years experienced extreme sadness like depression. I am ashamed to admit i didn't even believe it was real. Yes, i was one of those people. I tried for two years to snap myself out of it, thinking i'm a a stong person and it will not last forever. I even went so far as to think it was all in my head. But there was help out there, there IS help out there.

And i would love to see other people's positive stories aswell, so that we can help those who are feeling like we felt.

Thank you so much, and much love. xxx

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Exactly, the word needs to be spread that this medication works very well for some people.It definitely needs time.

I have been taking sertaline for 3 years, there has without any doubt been obstacles to over come durren this time.Sertaline without any exaggeration has saved my life and allowed me to work and support my family.The same can't be promised for everyone, but it's definitely worth trying to get through the first few weeks to see if it's the one for you.The grey cloud and the hopeless feeling has been lifted.

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Hi ChristineRoss,

I have used sertraline on and off since my 30's. Now I am 56 and know myself very well and my doctor works well with me ok. Many times my depression has improved to the point that I can stop taking the medicine with my doctors blessing and guidance for the tapering off.

Right now I have been on it for several years and am so thankful for this medication! What has been my challenge is trying to discern between situational depression and depression disorder. And when I know it is the latter, I ask my doc for an increase in dosage until I level out again.

I am well beyond embarrassment about my depressive disorder and accept the responsibility of seeking treatment for it. Still though, people judge and place stigma upon those who suffer depression. My response to them is that everyone has some kind of problem but those I fear the most are not the ones who seek help, but rather the ones who never do.

😃 Dawn

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Hi Dawn, first of all you dont need to feel embarrased. For the first 21 years of my life i really thought depression is just an excuse for people to be sad and mope all day. I was really an awful person for that, because when it hit me i was shattered, i was the lowest i have ever been, the lowest i ever thought i could be.

But yes, it is a very real thing i discovered the completely awful way. So imagine me having that mindset for so long, the full impact my friends and family had it. When i had to tell them i'm thinking of suicide and cant get out of bed because everything in the world makes me want to die i felt the most embarrasment i had ever felt.

They understood and supported me, and they know now aswell depression is anything but a joke or a crazy person thing.

I am so glad you're doing okay on it. I still get my off days aswell, but that's atleast a sign that this medication doesnt zombify you like so many others do. I would completely freak out if i didnt occasionally get an off day hehe.

It was amazing to hear from you Dawn, keep on posting about how you're getting on. Much love,xxx