Struggling with anxiety after increasing sertraline dosage!

[TrySleepingWithABrokenHeart]

I’ve increased my dosage of Sertraline from 50mg to 100mg and I’m feeling dreadful. Will this be down to the increase in dosage?

Anyone?

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Yes it’s likely to be, one of the side effects can be a temporary increase in anxiety. It should settle down again before too long x

Yes it probably is. I'm on citalopram but when I started it my anxiety went through the roof it was horrendous.
Once it had settled though it really helped.
Try all the breathing exercises and stuff to get you through these few days

Thank you both. I had some of this in the beginning when I started on this medication. The medicine has helped me massively although I do still have some very rough spells, hence why I’ve upped the dosage. I’m just feeling so so low today. I really hope it passes soon.

Be kind to yourself while it settles in.

Is there anything you can do today to distract yourself?

Hot bath, a good cry and prayer if you're a believer. If you're not, go and get soil on your hands. Worked for me when I started SSRIs.