Sertraline observation and feeling very different

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I’ve been on Sertraline 50mg for the last three years. Before that I was always very nervous, struggled with my emotions, over thinking and very high anxiety. It’s helped me so much but it’s got me thinking that I’m nowhere close to being in tears and upset like I used to be. If I read something in the paper or in the internet about abuse, etc. it would really affect me, but now I hate to say it, but it doesn’t always touch me as it once used to.

Can anyone relate? I’m a very empathetic person but have found I can put some feelings in a box and forget them.

I agree completely. Previously I would worry about people and situations and now it’s more of “well, would you look at the, now what’s for dinner”. I found it quite disconcerting at first but I’m getting used to it (I’m 9 months in and on 100mg)

I felt like this after a couple of years on Sertraline. Like a numb feeling. For me that was the time to come off them. They helped me cope during an awful time but I wanted to be able to feel again.

Yes this was my experience of Sertraline too.

I would explain it as like the Will Young song lyric; “But if I lose the highs at least I'm spared the lows”
It kept me level, and for that I was thankful at the time, but it also left me ‘numb’ so I couldn’t really experience pure happiness or joy.
I’ve been off medication for 4 years now but wouldn’t hesitate to take them again if the ‘lows’ spiral again for me.
they can be a good sticking plaster when your brain needs to reset.

That’s why I’m trying to come off them very very slowly. However sometimes my emotions where so intense like how much I love my children and husband that it almost hurt. Can someone relate? Sertraline evens it out but I do get days of numbness now which in turn makes me anxious hence me tapering down very slowly.