Margaret

[Guest guest]

Hi and welcome to our group.... You sure had a great doc telling you

that due to your 'kind' of depression, you would need life long

drugs.... Oh dear, what a fool.... guess he needed to pay for his BMW

or something.... a breakup of a 17 year marriage is enough to hurt

someone for years, but not a need to be drugged with mind altering

drugs for life..... myth number two.... have you heard that most

folks on ssri drugs gain weight... 40-80 pounds... duh, so you gained

weight, did they not ever tell you it could be the drugs????? This

hurts me everytime a new person comes on and we hear the lies... so

glad you are here, hugs

> Hello,

> I am so happy and relieved to have found this group.

> I have been on Zoloft 50mg since 1997. I was put on medication

> because of a very difficult time I was going through due to the

> breakup of my seventeen-year marriage and a subsequent breakup to a

> man I thought I was in love with. I was told by one psychiatrist

> that the type of depression I had had would probably require

> lifelong medication (due to delusions). I tried stopping Zoloft 1

> and one-half years ago, but wound up going back on. Recently,

> because of medical problems (I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis) that

> have caused weight gain, swelling of the legs, eyes, abdomen, etc.,

> I have stopped taking it. I already feel much more energetic, have

> been going to the gym, have been taking greater interest in life,

> etc. I have experienced mood swings and sleep disturbance. Is

this

> part of withdrawal? What else should I expect? I have thought

that

> if worse comes to worse I can always go back on or take a Xanax. I

> am going to start therapy to help (but I can't go every week

because

> it's too expensive).

> Thank you all for listening.

> Margaret