Sorry this might be long. I have had anxiety specifically health anxiety and fears surrounding my daughter since her birth 2.5 years ago.
I took sertraline for about 6 months and the world mellowed, not perfectly but enough to go about my life. I also briefly had CBT which I am not finding helpful anymore.
I have been increasingly getting more anxious again for the past year but trying to avoid facing it. I look for excuses for the anxiety like - oh it's just flared up because of whatever event and will pass - and try and use distraction and relaxtion techniques to work through it which isn't helpful long term. I think I want it to just be a post-birth problem and move on with my life because accepting that my brain is permanently broken is scary.
But I have had a really really anxious awful few weeks and I can't do this anymore. I think I have to face that this is just me now 
A few things that I am taking into consideration, we are trying to conceive, are SSRIs safe? I gained 20lbs on sertraline and have only been able to lose half of it so I am worried that going back onto the same med I will gain more? The GP did say at the time that sertraline is not one that causes weight gain but I was the same weight from my teens until that point. My libido also vanished which is obviously not ideal when TTC.
I don't know whether to ask for sertraline again because I know it works for my anxiety or ask for a different one because of the above symptoms.
I want to see my GP tomorrow would I be an arse to make an emergency appt for this? Usual waiting time is 2 weeks for a standard appt and I am thinking 2 weeks plus 2-3 weeks for it to take affect and I will have jumped in front of a car
Can someone talk this through with me please?