A Survivor Speaks Out

2003

This is Survivor Story number 52.
Total number of stories in current database is 77


10/20/2003

Thoughts of Harming Myself on Zoloft

Antidepressants

"They are NUTS---not habit forming?!"

Hello-I have been on Zoloft for two and a half years. If I had known the side effects of this awful drug I would have never started on it

My doctor prescribed it for depression related to job and family. I felt really good for a small amount of time, then the hand shaking started, my lack of desire for an intimate sexual relationship with my husband, extreme anxiety and panic attacks.

I tried to switch to another mediation that my doctor suggested and within a week I was having anxiety worse then normal, thoughts of suicide, chest pains, blackouts. My husband called in sick and went to work with me on one of my worst days, as he feared that I would harm myself.

I had to go back on Zoloft and it took several days to feel normal again. I want off this horrible drug--the company that markets it says that it is not habit forming. They are NUTS---not habit forming!! These drugs are given out like candy by doctors and the patients are not told what can happen to them.

Someone has to help us and protect those innocent people out there that are the next victims.

dlwood2@bellsouth.net