Current Events > I'm having an issue and I need help, please. Mental health; Zoloft

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So I've been on Zoloft since January, and while it's helping, right now I'm having a really bad episode and literally everything is making me upset. Like right now, I almost hit my keyboard because I keep hitting the wrong fucking letter. My mind is going a million times an hour and just can't settle down

I don't know what to do. I can't calm down and I'm waiting for my medicine to kick in

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go outside. look at trees, birds, and squirrels

Were you prescribed it for depression or anxiety? Do you find it makes you hyper?

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Zoloft has weird side effects, insomnia being the most common.
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Compress yourself. Pillows, sheets, whatever. Curl up tight for a while, block out light.

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eat a peanut butter and cheese sandwich, always settles me

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Right away: Look around you. Find 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell, and one thing you can taste.

idk if this helps but every other article looked worse

https://projectlets.org/emergency-action-for-panic-attacks


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I also was on Zoloft early last year and had the exact same issues youre describing. I cant say I have the best solution but what I did was just grab something like a towel, squeeze that fucker as hard as I could, close my eyes and just wait it out, let all that bullshit anger run its course even though everything seems like its all going wrong at the moment.

It still sucks to go through and isnt instant, but eventually the episode goes away after some time. Kind of lame advice I know, sorry for that, but thats how I kind of dealt with it.

I just did some crunches and push ups

Feeling a bit better, but still my mind is going 100 miles an hour. I'm not getting upset over literally nothing now, though

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Maybe look into some tea like chamomile, lavender, or kava. When I was quitting drinking and experiencing severe insomnia from the withdrawl, I was having trouble calming my racing mind, and it was keeping me awake for 3-4 days at a time. I scoffed a bit at the idea of tea helping, but it honestly did mellow me out a bit and helped out with getting my brain to shut up so I could relax. It's just an idea, i'd make sure drinking something like this is okay to mix with Zoloft, your doctor should have a better idea.

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I had a coworker on zoloft once. He was super chill but like acted kinda dead inside but got good about some political stuff (he was furious about his home state, Iowa, passing homophobic legistlature for example)
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^ I do drink some tea, but it makes me pee a lot, lol. It does help, but THAT is what keeps me up having to keep getting up to pee. The medicine doesn't keep me up at all. It just doesn't really calm my brain down. It's just too quick

I don't think Zoloft is what I need, but with my social anxiety it's hard for me to call a doctor [I don't have an actual doctor, I just book whomever is available the quickest, and that's only like 3 times in the past 5 years]. It took me a LOT of courage to call and get help with the Zoloft this past January for me.

They only gave me 3 months and when I went to order again, it said it's waiting for the approval of my doctor, which I don't have. So I'm down to just a few more pills until I'm out

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Asmr videos

tote_all posted...

How long have you been taking Zoloft exactly?

January of this year

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I'm feeling better now

Thanks for letting me vent

=x

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tote_all posted...

Have you noticed anything besides this episode? Being too talkative, impulsive, extremely high levels of energy, diminished need for sleep?

This is exactly how one of my ex's found out that she was bipolar.

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tote_all posted...

Have you noticed anything besides this episode? Being too talkative, impulsive, extremely high levels of energy, diminished need for sleep?

Are you doing therapy? Antidepressants are nearly useless without it.

Eh, how to answer

When I take the Zoloft I feel "better", but that's only because I can't "care" anymore. For example - When people tell me to go do something at work, I'll just say Okay and quickly go do that. But I can't, because they have to explain themselves.

Them - Could you move those boxes into the cooler, please?
Me - No problem.

*I go to do that*

Them - I don't know why the delivery man put it there. I've asked him to put it over there a few times now, but. . ."

*And they just keep talking, preventing me from doing what they asked of me and quickly getting it done so I can go and get other things done*

It's the same when I'm working with people and they have to stop working just to talk. Then they think I'm being rude when I continue to work because I can very easily listen to your entire rant/story/inflated BS and continue to do my job at the same time.

So when it's two of us, once they stop working to talk, I can't keep doing my job because I have to wait for them to do their job. For example, they put something into a bag and I have close it up and put it into a box. The job would go a LOT quicker if it was just me doing it, because it's easy to bag, close up, and put food into a bag. It's harder with the other worker

So if I'm not on my medicine, I get annoyed and irritated because they can't do something as simple as talk at work at the same time. I might ask them to hurry up, and then they get upset, and I feel badly about it. But it gets them to work faster. Well, until they do it again in a few mins, because it's not their fault they can't do that. Everyone I work with can't do that. They all have to stop working to talk.

And if I'm on my pills, I'll just sit there, saying nothing, and I'll get behind on the other things I need to do.

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That's how I feel getting high tbh^

but if it's producing that sorta other side effect, yeah -- time to phone in that shit, no and ifs about it :l

I second tea, just sitting outside with a good warm cup and tuning out to traffic or the air at least has helped me alot.. music on, y'know

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^ I do drink tea, but it makes me pee too much, lol

And it's not just that, it's a lot of things. All social issues.

I'm afraid to ask people questions because it just leads to rants and inflated answers. Someone I know works with someone that tested positive for COVID and they had to stay home for 7 days. After the 7 days where up, they went to work, but got sent back home.

I asked why they got sent home after the 7 days, I just wanted the answer. But I really didn't care, I was just trying to be social because they seemed to have expected me to ask. So I did, and regretted it. You see, the answer was simply, "Their union says it's only 7 days, but the other union that also works there, they say it's 10 days, so they didn't want them around before the 10 days were up."

Simple, right? That's all I wanted to know.

But no, I had to listen to them go on a rant about what everyone said, how many people were there, where it all took place, around what time, ect, ect, ect. I just wanted to know why. That's it

But that's what being social is, talking. I don't know how to do that. Someone asks me a question, I give them the strait up answer. i don't go into details unless pressed more. So that just leads me being left out, with nobody talking with me because I'm not an active talker.

But I'm a great listener, but that's an issue as well. People tend to say that same thing over and over and over and over again, often in the same conversation. It's like when they run out of something to say, they can't not talk, so they just bring it up again and say the same crap again

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tote_all posted...

You seem to be under the impression Sertraline has an immediate effect (it doesn't) and you don't seem to be taking it properly.

^this right here

zoloft is an antidepressant in which you are supposed to take daily, discontinuing it can give you some problems (especially once you really get it going). It also takes a few weeks to feel the effects, its not a pop it and feel it in just a bit kind of drug

Maybe try stepping away from the computer if you can and just chill, do something that you usually do that brings you peace. I've never been on anti depressants but I dunno, felt like this was a serious topic that needed a post.
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tote_all posted...

You seem to be under the impression Sertraline has an immediate effect (it doesn't) and you don't seem to be taking it properly.

And what did I say that lead you to believe that? I'm taking it exactly as the doctor told me to. I started off with 1/2 a pill for the first week, and then 1 pill a day. That's what I've been doing. I haven't missed a day. I haven't taken 2 a day.

My issue is that if I take it during the day, I start to get bad at night. If I take it at night, the day can be hard. If I take it during the day, I don't talk at work and can't get stuff done as quickly as I would like because I'm not "rude" and tell people to hurry up. If I take it at night, then I get things done a work, but only because I have to sound mean and ask people to stop talking so much and work.

DavidZ2844 posted...

It also takes a few weeks to feel the effects, its not a pop it and feel it in just a bit kind of drug

I've been taking it since January. This is the third time I've said it now. This is the sort of stuff I'm talking about. I tell someone something, and they just don't hear it. They tell me something, I hear it, and they say it again and again.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Maybe try stepping away from the computer if you can and just chill, do something that you usually do that brings you peace. I've never been on anti depressants but I dunno, felt like this was a serious topic that needed a post.

As much as I'm here, I really am not a big computer person. All of my issues are being social and then my brain working quicker than anything around me

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Bad_Mojo posted...

As much as I'm here, I really am not a big computer person. All of my issues are being social and then my brain working quicker than anything around me

You made the right call to vent fwiw - you couldve decided not to but ya did

Really I dont know about that medicine but as far as people go I think you sorta have to accept people will try to talk to you.. if theyre disturbing your ability to do your job then you have to find ways of excusing yourself to do x

Im kinda blatant with it - if someone handed me a trash bag and said take it to the first floor and they were talking to
me Id tell them are you gonna come with me down there? give me one sec Ill be right back

and if they start saying hey or something I just say real quick

sometimes I get so lazy with a reply irl Im like well Im just gonna go now and they can make whatever of it - those times have definitely have happened where Ive just peaced out

thats just at a basic level though, I dont know where you are with that - therapy could also help you in that regard as well if you havent checked that out


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I didnt take Zoloft but my doctor gave me Lexipro last October; said it was easier on the stomach in comparison.

Like other said, itll take a while before it kicks in and youre gonna either be hyper alert or hella sleepy. Either way, itll help immensely but of course you gotta consider what behaviors you could change in order to avoid riling yourself up.

I stopped taking it because I ran out of refills lol, but honestly I think Im okay now without it. YMMV of course

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Late to the party, but this will always help:

Find your heartbeat.

Now match your breathing to it.

In for four, hold for two, out for four, hold for two.

If your heart is racing, double all of that, 8 and 4.

Just focus on doing that for a few minutes.

It'll calm you down mentally as well as physically.

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RedJackson posted...

I think you sorta have to accept people will try to talk to you

I don't mind people talking at all. I love listening to people talk. Here are my main issues with people talking to me -

• They have to talk with their hands and can't keep working. I don't care if they don't work. It's f'n easy and we have a lot of time to get it done. If you want to talk and talk and just stand there, that's fine, get the fuck out of the way and let me do both jobs, get it done, and pay 100% to you and remember everything you say at the same time, and when I feel the need to get info you haven't provided me, I'll ask a quick question and let you continue. But then they don't. They stand there, holding up the work. So that in turn makes me not get to work, and have to do nothing else but stand there looking at them while they talk. This is an issue for me, it causes me to get nervous in a way, and then I can't focus on what they're saying.
• And since I'm such a great listener, and remember what people say, it really irritates me when they keep telling me things I already know. But I don't really let that get to me too much unless it becomes extreme like, for example, one of the workers is getting moved to a new location next week and they're upset about it because it's not me. They keep saying things like, "This is my last week here, so. . ." In that passive-aggressive way. I finally had enough and told them it wasn't my fault and that it was bothering me, they apologized, and then the exact same thing 4 more times in the last 2 days.
• And again, because I listen and remember so well, I'm good at seeing how people interact with each other. Two of them are always chit chatting with each other and working [they're the bosses], and the other one and I are either working alone or together. When one of the two bosses and me are alone, they talk shit behind the other two's back. How bossy this one is, how annoying this one is, and then I watch them get right back into treating both of them just like they treat me. So, of course they're talking about me as well. Why would they do it to everyone else, but not me? PS - One of them even tells us all the medical history and personal stuff about family, so why would I even think about opening up to them?

RedJackson posted...

and if they start saying hey or something I just say real quick

It's my boss, lol. I have to sit there and let them go on and on about why I need to do something instead of just letting me do it.

RedJackson posted...

thats just at a basic level though, I dont know where you are with that - therapy could also help you in that regard as well if you havent checked that out

I tried to get that set up. Back in January I finally called and talked to a random doctor at my clinic on the phone. They were great and helpful, and I got proscribed 3 months. I was told to get therapy and was given a link to go to in order to book an appointment.

But then it asked me all sorts of questions I didn't know how to answer. Who was my primary doctor? I don't have one. Things like that. So I got nervous, did my best, and never heard back from anyone. Now my 3 months is up and when I tried to do my online order it says it's waiting for my doctor's approval, I don't have a doctor.

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What dose are you on?

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Ooooooranges posted...

What dose are you on?

1 pill, lol

First week was a 1/2 pill, and then a full one. But I'm sure you mean how "powerful" it is, lol

25MG, I just had to look

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