Posted by SLS on July 20, 2006, at 6:19:55
In reply to Re: Without emotion, posted by Klavot on July 20, 2006, at 2:37:28
> > I was 16 or 17 and I trusted doctors too. It would take a very long time for me to regain that trust.
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> > Linkadge
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> I too was 16 when I began using Zoloft; I've been taking Zoloft on and off for 8 years now. I too feel that my ability to experience joy has been lessened, and that I've somehow lost much of my ambition. I can't say for sure that it was the Zoloft. What does one do about it though? I feel trapped - like my quality of life is poor without the drugs, while on the drugs I seem to become increasingly emotionally numb. What to do? What to do?
>It is quite a quandary.
It is especially confounding that one must take into consideration that depression worsens over time, so it is difficult to estimate how much anhedonia and amotivation/apathy is attributable to the illness and how much may be residual to the use of medication.
- Scott
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