Sertraline - please help

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I’m late 30s and suffered with anxiety all my life. It’s been pretty horrendous. Somehow I’ve managed to hold down a job and on the outside it looks like I have my life together. But I have huge bouts of anxiety which tips me into anger and sadness. I’m sick of living like this.

I have always resisted meditation, I suppose because that in itself makes me anxious. I also now have a toddler and I’m a single parent and I worry that taking sertraline could give me side affects which could in some way impact my child.

Ive tried talking therapies, cbt, etc and the worry and intrusive thoughts and anxiety remained.

ive been prescribed sertraline but I just don’t know what to do, has anyone had any experience please?

Hello, I’m just wondering is anyone in the same position as me I’ve been having mental breakdowns like 6 times a day really badly rummation to the point I no longer can live with this been prescribed steraline really wanna know does it work positive stories only please

Yes. I take it. I love how it has changed my life. I thought after 2 years that I just wasn't an anxious emotional person anymore and came off it for 5 months, it was awful, tears, sadness, not wanting to get wash, wearing joggers for days.

I'm back on it 4 months and I had the coil fitted for hormone balance. I feel together again, better than I have felt in years.

Have you tried the coil?

Try the ssri, you'll feel crappie on/off for 4 to 6 weeks, raging hunger and nausea but it passes by and you'll feel so much better. Good luck.

I had the copper coil about a year and half ago, I’ll give these a try for a few months and pray it helps then will look to go down the line for the coil again thank you, did you experience rummition

Hey - I’m on week 2 of withdrawing from it after being on it for a year… I honestly think it saved my life after being prescribed it during a very difficult time. No rummition here (although my husband experienced it on fluxotine.) It helped me to sleep and switch off my racing mind and negative thoughts without feeling “disconnected” if you know what so mean. I’m only coming off it as I feel like I’m in a much better place. I’m taking the odd propranolol when I feel the anxiousness creeping in and am coping. Wishing you well x

@Katelyn1663 sertraline has been incredibly positive for me. I was struggling massively with OCD, depression and anxiety. My sleep was absolutely horrible (I would go days without sleep every single week without fail for months, I felt like I was losing the plot). I’ve been taking 50mg of sertraline and it feels like it’s been genuinely life changing - I just feel a thousand times better (and I did almost immediately). I am sleeping SO well now. It’s really weird because I keep thinking how can this tiny pill make such a big difference? But it really has. I just feel normal, which after feeling so bad for long feels absolutely brilliant.

Side effects-wise I had a bit of a dodgy stomach for a couple of weeks, and I feel a bit groggy in the morning (I am sleeping a bit too well, maybe?!). I can’t really complain about that because I wasn’t sleeping at all so this is infinitely better! The other - most annoying - side effect is that it’s making me grind my teeth/ clench my jaw. But all of those things I can live with.

i am sorry things are so difficult for you at the moment - definitely try the sertraline and keep communicating with your doctor. It has worked for me and a lot of people I know.