Anyone had this happen on antidepressants??

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I've been taking sertraline for around 6 weeks now. I'm gradually feeling better than I have done in years! it's such a relief.
One thing ive noticed though that's quite strange, memories keep coming to the surface, things that i haven't thought about in years that i had pretty much forgotten about.
Its mostly negative things or bad things I've done over the years, even going back to when I was a child I'm not meaning to think these things, they just pop into my head.
It's really odd, I don't feel bad about them and accept them as being in the past with a more "well that wasn't very good was it new?" Or I cringe about them but other than that they're just there.
Has anyone had this happen??
I'm wondering if it's all part if the healing?
Like I've suppressed these thoughts for so long as not to make myself feel worse as I couldn't cope with it but now I'm feeling better I'm I'm processing my past as a means to move on?
I'm not dwelling on the same stuff, it's like a reel and once I've thought and processed one thing, up pops the next
Thing is, I'm not meaning to do this it's like my brain is doing it itself!
Can't brains self clean? Is this supposed to happen!?

I had this but not negative thoughts. I randomly remembered toys I'd had as a very young child which I'd forgotten about! It was quite cool.

That is cool!

These thought aren't really distressing me or anything, I'm just finding it off that they're all bubbling to the surface.
I'm also getting loooooads of deja vu

Maybe you're processing things that you'd kind of buried?
That would make perfect sense to me - in that you couldn't deal with those memories before, but now you can.
I'm no psychologist, but I hope that helps.

Thanks I'm.thinking along those lines too!
Another theory though..
Part of my mental health issue was intrusive thoughts. So idk if it's that trying to work it's mischief.
I dont really feel anxious anymore so I'm not having them now (thank God!!) So Idk if its my brain seaching for things to feel bad about as it's been my default state of being for so long its not working though I'm just shrugging them off when they pop in

Hmm, not as you describe but it gave me crazy dreams!

I've just come off it recently and tbh I feel way better, so perhaps it just isn't quite the right drug for me

This is what I'm going through now on week 5 of Citalopram! I thought it was just me.

A lot of horrible memories from my childhood that I'd pushed out my mind for years keep randomly popping in to my head, it's horrible.

I just assumed that the increased neurotransmitter levels were firing up some rusty brain pathways.

Ah yeah max that'd make sense!
It does feel like that.. like my brain is having a spring clean