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