For the past several years I have cycled in and out of depression and anxiety, and thus far have been unable to find any lasting fix. When Tage was almost three months old, I started having panic attacks and general anxiety that all but sidelined me for a couple of months. I was extremely fortunate and got good treatment that included talk therapy with a wonderful psychologist, and started feeling better relatively quickly. It took me a while to realize, however, that although the anxiety had tapered off significantly, the depression was still there. <\/p>\n
With winter looming in the not-so-distant future, I have been able to feel myself going into a down cycle again, and I can hardly bear the thought of another winter like last winter. In an effort to stop this downward trend in its tracks, I started taking the anti-depressant Zoloft on Saturday, and I’m very hopeful that it will help me get back to normal and stay there. It’s too early yet for me to feel any positive effects, but I am having some side effects (headache, nausea, dizziness, tiredness, and just an overall weird sensation in my head that’s hard to explain). It’s a bit annoying, but nothing major, and in a strange way I welcome the side effects, because they feel to me like proof that the medicine is working in my body. I’m not exactly sure what to expect and when to expect it, as far as the “real effects” go, because the only other times I’ve been on anti-depressants I didn’t take them long enough for them to work their magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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