re: Anyone have Zoloft experiences to share? Good or bad?

I've never taken one but I've had some unpleasant experiences nonetheless. When these pills first became common in,say the mid-90s mid-00s I was travelling with the pipelines and living the party life pretty hard. There would usually be a group of us that would hire on a job together and if we were four or five states away the occasional long weekend wouldn't be enough for a trip home so the wives/girlfriends would load up and come to us. Usually sans kids. Well, it seems that a good number of girls have trouble "finishing" on these drugs but they would be right on the edge for hours or even days so it really didn't hinder their sex drive so much as kick it into a frustrated overdrive. So when they were planning a weekend trip to see the boys they would lay off the medication from Mon or Tue on in order to get some good sex. Now combine that with hard liquor and probably the more illicit fuels as well and you'll see a rare fricking level of crazy. Fistfights, shattered windshields, 72-hr coroner's holds, girls who had seemed like responsible wives and mothers just leaving a bar and state with some random stranger and not answering the phone for days. I quit bringing any serious girlfriends up to see me and usually tried to skip town when the group was coming. I'm probably lumping zoloft, paxil, prozac and others all together here because I don't really remember who was taking what. I've got no first hand experience with men talk ng it. If anyone I know has they never mentioned it and they never had any psychotic episodes, (or at least none that I found out of character). But I think most people these days are aware that you either take that shite or don't take it, a five day break will very often cost you 72 hours and possibly criminal charges afterwards. I know lots of people do take it with no problem and it does seem to help them keep that even keel and function as an adult. And I should mention again that there was drinking and sometimes more involved in those episodes.


But sunshine and any kind of exhaustive physical activity are very effective mood enhancers and I would definitely try those before playing around with my brain chemistry, or that of anyone I cared about.


Drive-By-Truckers - Zoloft