I just didn't see it coming, and I read what signs I did see all wrong. Anything more I can say is too personal for this forum.

I've heard bad things from friends that have taken Z. It sucks that it's a luck of the draw kind of thing. I just feel lucky that I got lucky with the pills I pop.

I'm glad you're doing better MEl.

Oh man, totally count me in the Anti-Zoloft column. I was on that back in 1993 for ONE AFTERNOON and I still recall how freaky it was.

All the stimuli of drinking, say, 3 pots of coffee at one go, and the spatial disorientation of not knowing where to look on the Centrifuge Ride at the State Fair.

The only time in my life where I had to tell someone, "I think I just took something I shouldn't have and need to leave now..."

That's the worst part of Zoloft, LT, is no one can predict which bad trip someone will take. When it works, great, but when it doesn't, it's fucking chaos. I have known a good many hardened drug users who said their experience with Zoloft was the worst of their lives.

That sucks, Melismata. I am sure that a short downward spiral is the last thing you needed if you decided to go on Zoloft in the first place. I hope that whatever you try next (if anything) treats you better.

Ugh, what a horrible feeling. I'm so sorry. For me it wasn't Zoloft and I was already accustomed to the fact that for whatever reason, my brain enjoys obsessing over methods of self-destruction, but the day I found myself frozen by the railing of a bridge I had to cross on my way to class, unable to tear myself away from thoughts of being at the bottom of the ravine, was the day I decided to take a break from antidepressants.

I hope you find something that works. It didn't really seem to do anything either way for me. I react pretty strongly to lots of other things, so that's not it.

I found that Prozac worked just fine after my experience with Zoloft. YMMV.

Zoloft was interesting the first three days I took it but then for months it was a wonder drug for me.

Until we figured out it tipped me right into hypomania. (Which looks good on me, actually, but what goes up must come down and all that.)

I have been med free for a couple of years now, but back in the day I was on lots of stuff. I have to admit that Vitamin Z definitely has a real kick to it.

It's *supposed* to make you feel lousy for the first few weeks. If more docs explained this to their patients, I think more folks would probably end up getting the benefit of the drug.