mother issues... depression... zoloft? SSRI fears

[bipolartist]

So I rarely take a break from work, for any reason, but especially not to write in my LJ, but this is a special occasion.  I don't like change at all and over the course of the past two days I've been faced with two changes.  First, yesterday, my mom sent me this insane e-mail saying that she thinks I sleep to much because of my meds, among other

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...confused

[bipolartist]

Oops, I did post to bipolarsurvival, I thought this was a support community, didn't know it was artistic.

Re: ...confused

[catseyecordelia]

You're confused. She did post to bipolar survival. I don't know what you're getting at, but maybe you confused her username with a bipolar community elsewhere.

[10acgirl]

I used to take Wellbutrin and I noticed that it made me extremely anxious. Once I stopped taking it two weeks ago..i feel a lot less anxious. I didn't have any sexual side affects though...although I wouldn't know either way because I've been abstinent for over 2 years.

[the_living_end]

it made me anxious too. i took xanax a lot while i was on it.

[sayitlouder]

This might not be particularly helpful b/c I've never been on a combo of drugs that included Zoloft, just on Zoloft itself. I'm an ultra rapid cycler, and Zoloft intensified my ups and downs and made me swing more rapidly btwn the two. Basically I felt like I was being torn in two until I finally crashed.

I was told by the person that I was with at the time that I was increasingly disinterested in sex. This is probably true, I was just becoming too mixed episode-y to notice.

I've very much against SSRI's, but that doesn't mean that they won't work for you. I'm prone to depression and I know that my psychiatrist is interested in putting me back on Zoloft to treat it. I'm the one who adamantly refuses.