# Abruptly stopping my zoloft (unintentionally) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 15, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abruptly-stopping-my-zoloft-unintentionally/592813 "2011-08-15T19:12:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abruptly-stopping-my-zoloft-unintentionally/592813/41 "2011-08-16T13:08:09Z")
Jamie, your reaction to the guy in the gym seemed fine to me. It’s funny. The times you think you are in the right, most people think you were wrong. But this time you think you were in the wrong, and most of us think you were right. Anyway, I hope you get your meds and start feeling like yourself again soon. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abruptly-stopping-my-zoloft-unintentionally/592813/42 "2011-08-16T14:56:14Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Jamie, your reaction to the guy in the gym seemed fine to me. I tend to agree, assuming he wasn’t speaking literally when he “approached the guy and buried the hatchet.” ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abruptly-stopping-my-zoloft-unintentionally/592813/43 "2011-08-16T17:30:05Z")
Ah, SSRI withdrawal. I was in Grade 7 the first time I accidentally forgot to take my pills. It was first aid training day. I spent the day in a foggy haze, feeling like a drunk weaving around. The zaps came too. Somehow, I managed to perform dummy CPR well enough to get my certification. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abruptly-stopping-my-zoloft-unintentionally/592813/44 "2011-08-16T20:36:12Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > As has been discussed, it is extremely dangerous to stop antidepressants cold turkey. I used to be really inconsistent at taking my meds and it landed me in the hospital when I was in college. I’m glad you have reached out to someone, my best advice would be to stay in regular contact with people you trust and inform them immediately if you start to have any suicidal thoughts. Until you are back on your meds and stable you are at an elevated risk for harming or killing yourself, and it’s important that you and everyone around you takes that very seriously. > > Good luck. A very good friend helped me out and went and picked up a few zoloft pills from the pharmacy after I called the pharmacist and explained the situation. If she (my friend) hadn’t offered to do this for me, I probably would not have fixed this situation on my own. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abruptly-stopping-my-zoloft-unintentionally/592813/45 "2011-08-17T00:11:10Z")
I’m glad to hear that! (And hopefully karma will intervene and that guy will drop a dumbell on his toe) Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![okeedopey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3da27b/32.png) [@okeedopey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okeedopey)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abruptly-stopping-my-zoloft-unintentionally/592813/46 "2014-05-29T05:17:25Z")
I am thrilled to find this site. I am going through all this and identifying with everyone. This is like online therapy. It would make a great chat room but be can’t keep up with those so for me no. Anyway you can probably tell I am having an off meds kind of three weeks. I am so happy to find this site. I was looking for ways to get my meds before they run out . I did run out of the sertraline but I could just go and buy a handful. Anyway I’m crazy right now. I’m crying when I’m alone. I feel like that person who thought they were being clear mind ed. I do thought that the other day because I’m on this “why can’t peo pl e respect me” kick It’s like I have feelings! I feel the meds do kill your personality abit. I’m afraid to try herbs because I am still using the lamictal that I have been recently prescribed. I have tiredness pain , itsnlike when you judt find iut yiu are pregnant. Im snapping at people, the crying over commercials and my cousin graduating high school. Stuff I wouldn’t get so teary about.i have to say I’m good on the lamictal with out the sertraline if I was just on the sertraline I’d be a mental, mental case. Anyway. I feel like this group is like al anon. I’m with people who get me cuz they go through this stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abruptly-stopping-my-zoloft-unintentionally/592813/47 "2014-05-29T05:29:58Z")
> [@okeedopey](#): > > I am thrilled to find this site. I am going through all this and identifying with everyone. This is like online therapy. It would make a great chat room but be can’t keep up with those so for me no. Anyway you can probably tell I am having an off meds kind of three weeks. I am so happy to find this site. I was looking for ways to get my meds before they run out . I did run out of the sertraline but I could just go and buy a handful. Anyway I’m crazy right now. I’m crying when I’m alone. I feel like that person who thought they were being clear mind ed. I do thought that the other day because I’m on this “why can’t peo pl e respect me” kick It’s like I have feelings! I feel the meds do kill your personality abit. I’m afraid to try herbs because I am still using the lamictal that I have been recently prescribed. I have tiredness pain , itsnlike when you judt find iut yiu are pregnant. Im snapping at people, the crying over commercials and my cousin graduating high school. Stuff I wouldn’t get so teary about.i have to say I’m good on the lamictal with out the sertraline if I was just on the sertraline I’d be a mental, mental case. Anyway. I feel like this group is like al anon. I’m with people who get me cuz they go through this stuff! yes but those are too many symptoms. i hope you can get regularly medicated as soon as possible. it sounds like it would be stressful to have all of those symptoms at once. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abruptly-stopping-my-zoloft-unintentionally/592813.md?page=2)