Please Help

[jimmyd1978]

For the past few months I have started and stopped Zoloft 50mg I am currently back on it and have been taking it for a week. I have a fear that somehow from doing this I have given myself a brain tumor. Could I have? I am very scared. Thanks

[xjxexsxsx]

I once felt a lump in my head, which I'm sure everyone has...and I to convinced myself that I had a brain tumor. I was obsessed over the situation to the point that I was nauseous about it, I thought I was going to die. It sounds to me that staying on the Zoloft is probably your best bet, I know that medication helped me.

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

There is absolutely no possibility that you have given yourself a brain tumor by your use of Zoloft....

[sparkeler]

No don't worry about it.  Stay on the Zoloft for now.  It seems you may suffer from a bit of OCD/anxiety.

[megansett]

gre: the brain tumor, it is impossible to generate a brain tumor from taking zoloft - re-assure yourself.  perhaps you had this underlying fear all along re: the brain tumor.
I had the same fear starting when I was 12 after reading "Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther, written as a memoir for his son who was a student at Deerfield Academy and struggled with and eventually died of a brain tumor.  

I was asigned the book in english class and became so wrapped up in the details that i convinced myself that I had a brain tumor also - It wasn't until i saw a psychotherapist in my junior year of college  (8 years later) and admitted that i thought I was dying of a brain tumor for the past eight years that I was able to dismiss the whole 'crazy' thought.
best wishes..