zoloft and anxiety

[AnxiousAndie]

I am back on Zoloft after 2 years of being off. I'm 32 and I've been off and on them for 13 years. I had a very traumatic incidents in the beginning of March. I went to jail over a $16 bounced check that I did not know about. About a week after that happened my anxiety has been full blown. I started taking the Zoloft 4 or 5 weeks ago. I have seen the psychologist since then and she increased my dosage to 150 mg. My problem is that I feel zombie like. Maybe it is a bout of depression that is going along with it. Has anyone else had this issue? I also take .5 xanax at night to sleep.

[AnxiousAndie]

I lowered my dose last night. I've been on the zoloft for 5 weeks and I'm frustrated because I feel like I should already be feeling somewhat better. I'm still anxious and feel dread for no reason. I don't feel like me.

[BluCrystal]

Zoloft has a long and dreary record for making ppl feel 'weird' at first.  If you can tolerate it, give it another week, as you can DROP the dosage back down anytime.  I recently had to do this myself - I have been on 100mg zoloft for years, had some crap go on, and doc raised it to 200.  Maybe that was too big of a jump for me, but I did NOT feel good, so I went back to 100, and now I feel fine.  I've yet to tell my psych that, but i will on my next appt.