Best way to deal with emotional blunting on sertraline?

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Hello,

I started sertraline a few years ago after the birth of my DS, as I was feeling very overwhelmed and anxious.

Late last year I decided to come off as I felt like my emotions were numb. I wasn’t overly bothered about close relatives being unwell for example.

However, I have been off for some time now and the feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, anger and low self worth have come back 😔. I am thinking very negatively about the people around me and about my life. I am not sure whether to go back on sertraline but at a reduced dose (I was on 100mg before) or a different anti depressant. I really don’t want to be emotionally numb either though. Would be grateful for opinions and experiences of similar pls.

I found sertraline really killed my motivation, but citalopram was much better - I still had my drive but was also less depressed.

@LittlePurpleClouds thanks for that.
the GP did actually suggest switching to citolapram but I am worried about starting a new one, what the side effects will be like. Also that citolapram is quite difficult to come off?

I’d definitely follow your GPs suggestion in the first instance. I don’t think citalopram is supposed to be worse than sertraline to come off- I have to say I just stopped sertraline with no issues twice.

Yes deffo worth trying a diffeeent one . We are all very different
I was in sertraline for ages and it helped me but then anxiety became the issue not low mood and I switched to venafalaxine which worked better for both anxiety and depression .