Social Anxiety Support

LStambaugh85 · 11-01-2009, 06:15 PM

I recently got off of Zoloft because I hated feeling blah all the time. I started missing the highs of life..just felt that it kepe me in the middle all the time. Today I have a full blow panic attack and am now realizing I probably need to feel like blah in order to function. Anyone else hate their medication and then hate being on it?!?!

MavenMI6Agent009 · 11-01-2009, 06:18 PM

ya, I was doing good on zoloft mood wise but than I stopped the med thinking i could improve on my own boy was I wrong. Ive been trying to find the right drug for two years and no luck yet. Im weaning of zoloft though and changing to lexapro. good luck..

Vini Vidi Vici · 11-02-2009, 12:48 PM

same thing happened to me with Paxil...super hard to get off of. i hated the blah feeling, no emotions or anything. MAOIs (parnate) work alot better for me with alot less emotional blunting...i can still feel and enjoy stuff.

arth67 · 11-02-2009, 12:49 PM

maybe get back on the zoloft, dose range is 50 to 200 so experiment with dose, may help to take just before bed

when having a panic attack, relax, accept, dont tense up or fight back and do breathe deep and slow

Forza Italia · 11-03-2009, 12:35 PM

What does 'blah' mean ?

Nex · 11-03-2009, 06:40 PM

Yeah, I'm on Celexa and stopped taking it for a while, and was MAJORLY depressed. Ever since I started taking it again, life is just..life? It makes you feel indifferent about everything, so even when times are tough, you don't have any emotion to it, if you get what I mean. It just makes you into a robot. I don't know how to explain it. When you're off of it, though, everything hits you at once, and it overwhelms you. I'd rather feel nothing than overly feel about everything. Thats my opinions and experiences, of course.

meyaj · 11-03-2009, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Nex

I'd rather feel nothing than overly feel about everything. Thats my opinions and experiences, of course.

eek I can't relate to that at all. My pdoc put me on a few antipsychotics which remove emotion to the extreme and it was really the worst experience ever. Frustration is an emotion I could do without, but for me there's something gratifying about even just being able to feel emotional pain and sadness that makes a life without emotion really seem like a life not worth living.

11-01-2009, 06:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
LStambaugh85 Status: SAS Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: CA Gender: Female Posts: 26	Off Zoloft I recently got off of Zoloft because I hated feeling blah all the time. I started missing the highs of life..just felt that it kepe me in the middle all the time. Today I have a full blow panic attack and am now realizing I probably need to feel like blah in order to function. Anyone else hate their medication and then hate being on it?!?!

11-01-2009, 06:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
MavenMI6Agent009 Status: Cook Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: EL Crapo, Tx Gender: Male Posts: 13,633	ya, I was doing good on zoloft mood wise but than I stopped the med thinking i could improve on my own boy was I wrong. Ive been trying to find the right drug for two years and no luck yet. Im weaning of zoloft though and changing to lexapro. good luck.. __________________ "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." (Henri Nouwen) -------------------------------------------------------

11-02-2009, 12:48 PM	#3 (permalink)
Vini Vidi Vici Status: altruistic philanthropist Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Minnesota Gender: Male Age: 18 Posts: 275	same thing happened to me with Paxil...super hard to get off of. i hated the blah feeling, no emotions or anything. MAOIs (parnate) work alot better for me with alot less emotional blunting...i can still feel and enjoy stuff. __________________ Please don't take or trust any medical advice from me...Consult a perffessional. meds taken for extended period of time: zyprexa, zoloft, risperdal, klonopin, temazepam, xanax, agomelatine, ambien, adderall, metadate, EMSAM, selegiline, paxil, lexapro, wellbutrin, seroquel, trazodone, clonidine, tramadol, remeron, vyvanse, concerta, Lunesta, Parnate. Current Meds: Parnate 30 mg, Diagnoses- Major Depression, OCD, Social Anxiety, GAD

11-02-2009, 12:49 PM	#4 (permalink)
arth67 Status: SAS Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: austral;ia Gender: Male Posts: 217	maybe get back on the zoloft, dose range is 50 to 200 so experiment with dose, may help to take just before bed when having a panic attack, relax, accept, dont tense up or fight back and do breathe deep and slow __________________ life is not a dress rehursal

11-03-2009, 06:40 PM	#6 (permalink)
Nex Status: SAS Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Dublin, OH Gender: Female Age: 19 Posts: 68	Yeah, I'm on Celexa and stopped taking it for a while, and was MAJORLY depressed. Ever since I started taking it again, life is just..life? It makes you feel indifferent about everything, so even when times are tough, you don't have any emotion to it, if you get what I mean. It just makes you into a robot. I don't know how to explain it. When you're off of it, though, everything hits you at once, and it overwhelms you. I'd rather feel nothing than overly feel about everything. Thats my opinions and experiences, of course. __________________ "Is it the rising roof line that makes me feel so swallowed whole? Or the way my body barely pricks the sky..."

11-03-2009, 12:35 PM	#5 (permalink)
Forza Italia Status: SAS Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 16	What does 'blah' mean ?