Reassurance needed 🙏🏼

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I'm a second-timer and restarted 50mg sertraline mid-November for 2 weeks then upped to 100mg. It was horrific for the first 3-4 weeks. My anxiety was through the roof, I was restless, couldn't relax, was terrified of having to be responsible for my young son, signed off work, mornings and days were so long. After this, I seemed to get "me" back in the evenings but the mornings were still bad. This past week the anxiety seems to be gone completely which is great but I've been left with such a deep depression that I'm really struggling with. Does anyone have any similar stories with positive outcomes? Positive only please because I'm so sad this is my life now 😭

Sertraline helped to calm me down so that I could cope with counselling and that meant I was able to come off it the following year. However, this was after I'd taken Citalopram, which hadn't worked for me at all and was just making me numb - my point being that sometimes you need to go back to the doctor if it's not working and ask to try something else.

I feel bad for you. That sounds upsetting.
It might also be worth considering what else was happening at those times though.
For a lot of people, even without mood disorders, the run up to Christmas is super stressful, and then the first few weeks of january can be rather grey and depressing.
Could that be a part of it for you?

Quietiptine is meant to be a really good for mood stabilizer... try asking for that its also an antidepressant