Please someone help me Please I need help

[Caitlin82694]

Somebody please help me, please. I am 14 years old almost 15. I have been suffering from depression since I was 9 and got treated at ten. I have been taking zoloft this whole time. I have been tapering off for the past few weeks and took my last pill two days ago. I feel horrible, I'm feeling sick, anxious, fatigued, I have a headache, I have been moody, and I get these horrible electrical zaps about every twenty seconds. Blinking is all it takes to cause one. I feel horrible, I need some answers or help or somthing. I read these withdrawl symptoms can last up to a month and the earliest I can see the doctor that gave me 150mg of these horrible pills is Monday. I just want some help, some way to ease these horrible symptoms. I have been crying for the last ten minutes and I don't want to spend the rest of my summer this miserable Please help me, please. I don't know what to do and I feel miserable.

[92852]

You've done the right thing to reach out to this forum.

I also am wondering about your doctor.  Maybe you need a new one.  Maybe you don't need to be on drugs at all.

I'm also wondering why you were put on drugs at such a young age?  Did you try physical activity and getting involved in school  or church activities and clubs?  That is what makes people happy.  There are ;probably summer Rec programs available in your town.  They offer classes like volleyball and swimming and babysitting, etc.

Peppermint and chamomile tea will help you headaches.

Life can and will be better for you.

[chickamin]

First I must ask if your doctor told you anything about what would happen if you withdrew form your medication? Sounds like he is not the right doctor to be prescribing anti depressents if he himself is not fully aware of what they do. Have you tried finding someone in behavioral health, a psychologist and NP or both who can help you deal with this, they will know what is best to help you. Look in the phone book under mental health or behavioral health and call to explain your problem. Also have you talked to your folks, surely they can help. It does'nt have to be that bad. For now though, try going for a walk outdoors, nature and walking is good for depression any way. I had this same experiance where a doctor put me on effexor for two months and told me it would help to calm me but he never said to come back, get more nor nothing about withdrawals. I started getting bad electrical feelings in my head and my eyesight started to effect me bad.Plus all the other bad feelings you get with it. Yes I went through it without help with out even knowing that there was help. Eventually it went away and I spent alot of time outdoors as that helped. Try to find the right help as there are doctors out there who deal in nothing but this  sort of thing and who do care to help you with the depression also. Good luck and hang in there you will get better. Do things to take your mind off of it, things you like doing.

[Caitlin82694]

i wasn't daignosed with major deppression just depression. I am on another medication that is working wonders and I feel a lot better just taking a shower. I read that this drug had a very short half life. WHy would somthing with a short half life take 5 weeks to get over?

[Hensley258]

First thing....I will assume that since a doctor prescribed you Zoloft in the first place that you were diagnosed with Major depressive dissorder?

Did your doctor just seem to think that this depressive dissorder would magicly go away?
If he is taking you off meds I can only assume this is what he is thinking.

You are suffering from what is called Antidepressant withdrawl syndrome.
I get it everytime I switch antidepressants. The good news is that it will pass in about 5 weeks. The bad news is that during that 5 weeks it will not be fun. When you turn your head or open and rotate your eyes it will feel like your brain is falling out of your skull.

I must also be honest and tell you that now that your off your antidepressant that there is a very good chance that your depression will return. It almost always does.