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Ive been on 50mg for 5 years n i think they need updose

It's so tiresome that it literally doesn't matter if I do everything right. I have been working on getting my career to pretty much exactly the point I wanted it to be, working out 3-4 times per week, eating healthy and trying to sleep well and I'm not feeling any better than 10 or so years ago when I was out partying half of the week. In some ways it's worse as with the highs and lows of drug use at least there's highs and the lows are temporary. I've been suicidal for as long as I can remember but have been able to postpone it so far. My therapist is going for a psychoeducation approach but the only thing I've learned so far is that I have a pretty bad case and the statistics are not great. Where I live 20-25% of people with double depression end up making at least one attempt, with survival being mostly down to the method chosen. Before I was able to drag myself through life for my partner and pets, but we split up and I can't take care of an animal right now. I'm probably going to spend the next week or so getting things in order and then I'll check out. Best of luck to you. Hopefully you can make something out of it where I haven't. For others reading this: talk to whatever mental health counsellor you have, or get one if you don't. At least once you've scraped the bottom of the barrel options-wise the people around you know you tried. It means a lot to them.

Been trying to get help from a bunch of psychiatrists for years and I’ve been on several medications. Then one day they told me that they don’t know how they can help me with the medication because they are running out of options. I’ve had enough of this bs. I wish I could end my life but assisted suicide is not a thing where I live.

I was just diagnosed with PDD. This is so helpful, thank you!

I have been living with depression for about 13 years, diagnosed with MDD for about 7 years, and will be talking to my psychiatrist on Tuesday about PDD. Since I met the criteria about 5 years ago I think I will see a change to my diagnosis, unfortunately there is not much else to try treatment wise. I haven’t gone a day in the last 5 years or so without suicidal thoughts. I keep looking for a solution or at least a reasonable treatment but no luck so far.

Thank you so much for this video!!!!! I have a loved one in my life that is going through depression due to life circumstances, coworkers, people in their life just constantly beating them down day after day and I could not figure out how to describe what they were going through until I found you and you checked off every single box!

Funny that you gave up alcohol but still drink coffee, coffee is awful for depression and anxiety

Hi Marcus, how much do you take now? 100mg eradicates my anxiety but also negatively impacts my cognition and memory. Now moving down to 75mg. Have you had issues with cognition on Zoloft? Thanks.

Thanks. Currently been upped from 50 -> 75 ( week) -> 100. I’m feeling those side effects

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I took Zoloft for almost a month and experienced the same sexual side effect that you did so I stopped taking it. I might resume taking it, but it’s now been almost a week and I still have the same problem. So I wanna see how long is it going to take?

Thanks for sharing your experience, im 40 and just started on Zoloft.

I’m two weeks on sertraline now yet no side effects. What does this signify?

What I call "IDGAF" Mode. When it kicks in full mode, I just don't care. At 56, I went undiagnosed for 30 years. I just thought life was shitty for everyone. When zI was diagnosed, it was still Dysthymia. The Psychologist who was diagnosed me was the state of Florida's Psychologist who evaluated serisl killer Ted Bundy.

I resonated with all the symptoms you talked about, especially the feeling of hopelessness, it's not easy to live life having those feelings around, and it's hard to achieve anything because of it because you cannot find a reason for everything, having suicidal thoughts and you can't explain why when you're just a kid. By the way, I just got diagnosed with Dysthymia today, and I still feel stuck. I was shocked when I learned about it and I was having this since I was just a little kid. I still haven't got an email response for the medication treatment from my psych.

My wife recently asked me how I was feeling mentally and about my self esteem. I replied "I actually feel pretty good about myself.... but it's like 'so what. I don't care." I've since been diagnosed with dysthymia.

Ive got this. Its hell. Life is completely pountless and meanibgless. I spend most of my life in bed with the curtains drawn. It soothes me..I have no desire to do ANYTHING. People just dont understand. Pills make it worse. I drew the short straw.

Thanks for sharing 😊 do you weight gain with Zoloft?

Zoloft/sertraline changed my life period, I would never comment on things like this as I never told anyone the way I was….. to the point of any bad side effects I was willing to push through to try to keep on going …. Few bad side effects for 2weeks or so (racing thoughts / stomach pain) then after 3-4weeks don’t have that ‘weighted dread’ of day to day life , able to cope …. But I have suffered with emotional suppression which is not a bad thing I don’t think

My side effects ARE PRESENTLY crappy!! 😣😩

YES!! No matter what you do, YOU CAN'T ESCAPE IT. Enough said.

I take maximum dose sertraline every day for past 15 years. I find this essential to counter my depression.I use several other 'natural' techniques every day which reverse my depression greatly, however these techniques only worked after I took antidepressants. In taking sertraline and with each increase in dosage I found after 8 days I would feel much worse like all my depression rose up to the surface and I was fully suffering it. After a few hours to a few weeks of suffering these awful depressive symptoms quickly faded out after which I felt much less depressed and consistently persistently good. For me, medication is the answer.

I think persistent depression very easily evolves to a treatment resistent depression. It is genuinely so annoying that I know nothing really works because there is not 1 concrete cause. I had some hope for rTMS, but it did nothing for me 😢. With my autism I feel like I will have to live with this depression, which is just depressing in itself.

I am on 100 mg setraline on a day 😢😢😢

Hey Marcus, thanks for making your videos they helped me when I started Sertraline. I have stayed on 25mg mostly but am looking to get off it because I have had weight gain, concentration issues and slight apathy. I also have hypothyroidism this was diagnosed before I started Sertraline though. How are you getting on? My main issue is anxiety.

Very sleepy , so he went from 1 in day 1 at night.

My Dr. Has me on 200mg.

Ah balls to that then! This sounds likes it going to effect my work and really can’t afford that, even it’s for a short time.

Like a big hand gripping you, squeezing you, ever so slightly, but all the time.

I think when the Doctors charge to higher doses the body reacts in a weird way. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I was about to stop taking it without consulting my Doctor.

Thank you bro I’m new to this and have finally found that this is what was happening recently Same exact position and you helped me out make me know there’s others literally who feel exactly what I feel I appreciate that g

My first introduction to antidepressants was Zoloft and due to the nature of my anxiety disorders and OCD I required a higher dose, I was titrated up to 200 mg’s within a 8 week period and extremely treatment resistant. Around the 3 month my Dr augmented with high dose of BuSpar and within a month I reached full remission BUT bipolar type 2 was undetected at that time as I went in for treatment while in the throes of a very deep depression and I didn’t know I was also experiencing hypomanic thoughts. It actually took about 13 years before I was diagnosed with Bipolar type 2. I suffer from C-PTSD, Bipolar 2, OCD, GAD, ADHD, and Major Depression, also on the autism spectrum. One psychiatrist had me increase my Zoloft to 400 and it didn’t do shit for me. Over 13 med trials later, 70 rounds of TMS, 32 bilateral shocks, 1 month of Ketamine infusions and NOTHING. diagnosed as TRD/Refractory which spelled out zero hope left and soon to exit. Landed inpatient and out came the MAOI (Phenelzine/Nardil) after about one month Dr augmented with low dose Ritalin and by the 6th week in 90% remission with some breakthrough hypomania/anxiety. But very stable and able to resume life and live again. Global shortage hit for one year in 2020 and relapse was inevitable and dangerous as there was no known date for its return. I somehow managed to persevere but not without strong Active SI present 17 hours out of each day, I landed inpatient again but washout was derailed by my assigned psychiatrist that urged me to do a trial of a tricyclic which did lift me up and out within a 2 week period and was maintained for one week and everybody was calling me smiley and measures where being taken to discharge me until it suddenly stopped working and all the active SI returned as if it was just some cruel joke. Washout had to begin from scratch and I elected to leave even though I was no where near being safe from myself if not I was actually worse . I hung on to dear life while making daily visits to my exit location and once my washout was completed I resumed Phenelzine and within three weeks the agonizing torment of the severe anxiety and fear started to lift and by the 4th week I was nearly in full remission again. Hope was restored and SI vanished but remained as a traumatic memory which is the case to this day. I could benefit from a mood stabilizer but Trileptal and Lamictal give me a severe rash and I’ve shied away from lithium and depakote because of the side effects. I might reconsider doing another attempt with lithium just to see if it prevents me from having slips and some breakthrough anxiety and depression.

Thank you for doing these presentations on your journey through depression. Very helpful. I like how straight forward you are. And I like you that you talk about men and depression and how hard that is for so many of us to deal with depression. Men are notorious for not wanting to talk about their feelings or thinking they are weak if they do. I hope you plan to do more videos on this topic. You've mentioned you are an avid reader. Maybe do a video on books on depression that you've found helpful, those that were not.

Thanks for this video! I just read and enjoyed video selling formula and will try to implement some of the techniques next week in sales meetings. I also started antidepressants three years ago. I remember feeling like all the colors of the world were suddenly more vivid and saturated. It's crazy how depression will make your eyes see the world in muted colors. Happy to hear that it's working for you!

What about sleeping did you face any problems with it ?

Really yes your family should support you, unfortunately ive been trying to reach out to my sister in law . She doesn't answer my text or phone calls at all not even to say hi. Its so disheartening. Im so messed up. I actually never needed medication. Unfortunately i took one that messed me up then another then Benzo, i so messed up. Im thinking of trying Zoloft . I guess i have nothing to lose.

Just started this medication, only on day 2 and having trouble sleeping and staying asleep. I am now changing the time of day to take it from evening to mid day to see if that helps. Thanks for the video, I really hope this one works for me too.

I have PDD, GAD and somatic symptom disorder. Lots of fun, meds never helped me. Seeing my psychologist weekly is helpful

It’s so nice to see the sun through the clouds when those days come

Very helpful info

This is very truly valuable information, thank you. But I’d like to ask, how long have you suffered from dhysthymia? Now I have been Suffering it since 2015 until now. At first I experienced Insomnia for a year, after that my mood started to decline. I have never been feeling happiness anymore since that time. I lost of interest of things that I ever enjoyed before like hearing music, playing games and etc. I felt just like gloomy everyday, my life was not happy but not sad either, it just flat. In 2023 I started to get to Psychiatrist, he prescribed medication a Setraline but not Zoloft Brand. He said if nothing change in a month after taking the setraline, he will change to another medicine. After a month has passed, there is no change of my mood, no progress of my Medication on my treatment, then I returned and take another kind of medicine. My question is should I take setraline for two months for the real result as you said, you felt better on day 57? Should I tell him to prescribe medication to me again a straline for 2 months? Or Zoloft is the best brand?

But, what if you have seen a professional and take anti-depressants, yet still feel the same?

I have dysthymia and bipolar. Yes, maybe it's hard to believe? Tell me, is it possible? It is possible, but it requires a lot of talent, you must have talent and the conditions will complete the story. Sometimes I am ecstatic and the rest of the time I am uniformly depressed And this is a permanent and unending situation. Despite trying to live a normal life, I'm practically stuck, I can't stay in one job and be compatible. What's normal like? I have no idea what it's like. People who don't have physical or mental problems are the happiest people, even if they're not successful, you're happy because you always feel You are not miserable. And I haven't had this simple and ordinary happiness for years I miss sleeping one night and not having a dream I miss reading a book with concentration Missing to play an instrument and be able to concentrate I am surprised that someone asks me how I am, and when I say I am fine, I don't have a conflicting feeling inside Longing for one day less obsession I would like to say that a month passed and my pillow was not wet with tears I long for my mental to work better one day, and believe me, I tried my best for it and I am doing it But I don't see any particular result. This is an unequal war, an unending war. My shoulders are tired of bearing this situation and I am just continuing in vain because of mom and dad. Other people have no understanding of it and how alone I am. How alone I am in the midst of all this crowd. The feeling of being different from others bothers me a lot. By others, I mean the circle of normal people around me. Are you saying that there are many like you? I have not seen them around me. How unachieved I am And how much without experiencing normal things. Tired of enduring so many years of illness and tired of not being able to talk about my feelings. If you have a peaceful sleep You are fine during the day You can have fun even if you don't have the job you want You are lucky and you should be thankful every day. This is a gift that many people don't have and they have to work twice as hard to get it.

Yeh you are the 1st one I've watched on this thanks...I definitely always said I had the big 3 because of abuse...ptsd, anxiety, depression but suddenly today I realized that long term depression was the main one...so when I googled long term depression this came up...and after hearing your video -Bingo! You were describing my life also. Because actually now after almost recovering from divorce, and things are good- still feel down...so your video really helped pinpoint the problem and will talk to my Doctor. Thank you for helping me and others.

Wow nice to see a video about this condition it definitely resonated with me especially your description. I had this all my life till my 30s then had a depressive episode a psychiatrist diagnosed me with it i just felt relieved and after the meds kicked in i began to feel oh this is what normal ppl feel like like a dark cloud that was covering me whereever i go had lifted.

Dangerous drugs

I needed to hear this.

Love the review and editing. It's a masterpiece just like Paul's book.

This actually made me cry with relief. I’ve been struggling to be happy and keep up a good mood for 6-7 years. I tried everything but I never felt like any of the labels like just “regular” depression. I have for months just these heavy suicidal thoughts and they just keep coming back but I never got any help for it. I just thought that I was moody or something since I was able to just keep on going. But I have had this constant feeling underlying even when I’m happy that life just is meaningless. Kinda like passive suicidal thoughts, I don’t really care if I live or die has been my motto for the past years even though I’m able to do things like school and socialize I always feel like I just struggle to do the basic things. Things like showering, it takes so much effort but I just have to keep doing it. That’s kinda like what my life has felt like for years. Like life is just too much effort for what it’s worth. But this video just made me feel very seen and I just felt like the final puzzle piece clicked. Thank you truly for this🙏🏻