Clinical Depression Journal. My Zoloft Journal ?
Q.I've decided to start this journal as an unbiased log of my experience on Zoloft. I'm a 29 year old male who has been experiencing chronic depression and social anxiety for the last 11 years. My doctor prescribed 25 mg of Zoloft for the first week, then 50mg after that. On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the worst, I would rate my overall level of depression at an 8. I would say my overall anxiety rating is a 7.
A.The day to day stuff was way too much to read, so I'm just reading the basics. It's good. (Also, I don't take Zoloft.) I too get enough help from meds that they make a big difference. And I also find that I'm no where near "normal"; a lot closer to disabled. I take a smallish amount of Serzone to deal with the anxiety part of my depression, in addition to other pills. Works well on it. I saw your reply to the Xpost to ASD-med, and since I haven't seen a post of yours on ASD-med in ages, I am just replying to say Hello, and how nice it is to see you continue to do so well. My depression has just kept on keeping my thinking down. That's down as in slow, not so much as unhappy. Actually, Happy hasn't been much a problem for me. I am happily married to a joyful man. It's the mental exhaustion the bites my butt. Sometimes I think depression effects us the same way as tiredness does a 3 year old. You know how they get tired, cranky, weepy, and you just can't get through to them? (I have a 2 year old grandbaby!) Clinical depression is no longer my problem. . I haven't taken an SSRI's or any AD in two years now. Sometimes I find myself slipping, mood wise, but I know what to do, diet, nutritional supplements, exercise, and behavirowise to avert free falling into clinical depression nowa days. My residual, and perhaps my core problem seems to be symptoms commonly diagnosed as ADD, including some sort of f "intention deficit", where I have no goals set to achieve, and these symptoms of ADD are ones I cant seem to lick via my my vitamins, diet, lifestyle choices. etc.
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