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Carsu, I know what your going through. My son was secretly taking Zoloft for 2 weeks. Then committed suicide. I'm trying to find out where he got them from because they were free samples. He was trying to get help and they ended up killing him. I am so angry that something like this could actually happen from just trying to get help.

Did your thoughts in your head start when taking zoloft? Zoloft also contains alcohol. If the drug is bad it is possible to go of it. But stopping taking it without a withdrawelplan in cooperation with your therapist is dangerous. Antidepressives and neuroleptics must be redused slowly, otherwise you can get bad reboundsymptoms like medical inflicted psycosis.

I know the situation of being depressed. It is like to be in a dark tunnel, but in the other end it is a streem of light. I have newly been in a long period when I have not managed to do anything. I felt small things were a hardship.
But I have good friends and an understanding family.
Do you have some friends around you?
I feel and care!
I wish you all the best 8)

Babygirl, if your taking Zoloft you do need to be worried. They are putting a label on it now for anyone under 18 not to take it and a warning about the suicidal tendencies. But it can be anybody not just 18 and under. My son was 23 yrs. old. He was still taking it. I'm still trying to find out where he even got them from because they were free sample bottles. A two month supply! I don't want to scare you but I have heard to many horror stories since my own nightmare has begun! You might be one of the ones that it will help but I would be real careful because there isn't any way of knowing why it helps some people and kills others. My brother (43 yrs. old) was taking it before and his wife made him stop. She said he was like a walking zombie without any emotions at all. He could care less about anything! Good or bad! It doesn't just take away any bad feelings (depression), it takes away ALL feelings! So they could care less if they live or die. They don't think of the pain that they are going to cause everybody else by their actions because they aren't feeling the emotions that they should be feeling. My son was his younger brothers protector. He would have never hurt them this way if he was in his right frame of mind. My son would have thought of the devastation and pain that this would cause everybody and not of been able to do it. He would have felt pain just from thinking about it. But the Zoloft made him feel nothing or think nothing of the consequences. He had over 200 people at his funeral on all three days. He had to many other options. He had so many CLOSE friends that he grew up with since 1st grade and so many people that loved him. It just doesn't make any since! Sorry to go on this long. But if you continue to take the Zoloft be careful and don't forget that you have two little ones that I'm sure need and love you. So know matter how you start feeling and thinking, don't let yourself forget that THEY NEED YOU!!!

Well just be careful Babygirl. Like I said it works for some and not for others. Just keep a record of your side effects so then you can decide if it is worth taking it or not. It doesn't make since like you said for the same dosage for two people so different in weight? My sons' was also 50 ml. I don't know how long you have been on it, but they say that the people who have or have tried to kill themselves are within the first two weeks of starting it or a change (up or down) in their dosage.So just be careful and keep track of the side effects. I'm glad to here that you do have someone close around to watch you.
Be careful of confusion. The night before my son did this, he told his cousin that he felt confused? Were not sure exactly what he meant when he said it. But now we will never know.
Good Luck!! Maybe it will help you with whatever it is your going through.

P.S I don't doubt that you love your husband and kids enough to THINK that you could never hurt yourself. But don't forget my son would have walked on water for us, especially for his brothers. We are all very close. Everyone knows that he would have never done something like this. He was a very strong, good head on his shoulders person. He started taking this because he was having a "socializing problem". Not wanting to be around people. He got where he just went to work then after work he just wanted to stay home all the time and his fiancee started complaining. So he started to take this to help him. So when he did what he did, I guarantee he wasn't thinking about everyone that loves him or everyone that he loved. So please be careful because it altered his mind.

Several years ago I got something called Edronax i. e. Reboxethin, an antidepressive agent. I felt quicker immediatly. After some weeks I started to swet and began to feel uncomfertable. I am a calm person, and I began to get aggressive outbursts. I understood it was induced by the medicin, and stopped taking it. Nobody ever told me to stop slowly by a controlled withdrawel. I did't know what was happening to me. I got sick and my temper was flying up and down. This lasted a forthnight, and suddenly I was the old me.
I found out I had to grasp the challanges that life provides. I had to find the answers to uncomfertable questions and stay responsible for uncomfertable choises which are parts of life.
I haven't taken medication for several years and I cope with life. I have a meeningful job and friends and I am glad that I cope in life without medicin.

I am very sorry to hear all of the situations regarding suicide. I think you have to consider the persons personal situation at that time in their life, before you decide that the drug is or was at fault.  I myself have been taking Zoloft for years and it has helped me.  Also, it takes weeks for Zoloft to take effect in your system.  I don't think it could possibly make a difference in a short period of time.    On the other hand, I am not so sure about Cymbalta, which I have been taking a little over a year.  I need to look into that because I have been having sleep problems since taking it.

Not sure what you mean by "I feel like a Robot" ...  maybe you should think about all natural medicine and find a clinic for that.  Either that or find another doctor...

my sister is on zoloft 50 mg and im worried about her because she has gotten into drinking kinda heavy all my family worries about her we ask her when she is sobber that if she is stressed or going threw depression that she needs to drink. She just tells us that she likes alcohol but i dont think that is the reason why she drinks i feel that zoloft if messing her up and her releif is to drink im just so worried if she is taking zoloft and alcohol at the same time.  Know her doctor wants to up her zoloft to 100 mg and i tell my sister to not believe the doctor 100 mg is to much i see how the 50 mg makes her look and feel. So i dont no if its the zoloft that she takes makes her wanna drink to forget everything or if she really loves the alcohol.

SUICIDALITY and HOMICIDALITY caused by Zoloft

http://www.network54.com/Forum/182310/message/1103632216


"Extract of correspondence from Professor David Healy to the UK drug regulatory body, the MHRA.


"...Reports on these trials list patients who have committed suicide, and list those patients as being of a certain age and as having committed suicide at a certain point during the trial, when the patient in question has a very different age and the event in question happened at a completely different point during the trial".

"Miscoding of suicidal act as emotional lability."

" Lilly have resorted to treatment non-response and a range of other headings to code what happened..."

"...records on Prozac, Seroxat/Paxil and Lustral/Zoloft, you will find cases of homicidality coded as nausea for instance..."

"Discontinuation of patients from studies for primary adverse effects such as nausea when in fact there has been a suicidal act;..."

"But it is also worth adding specifically that this has been a feature of all trials of Zoloft/Lustral, Seroxat/Paxil and Prozac throughout, as far as I can make out... "


[manufacturers PFIZER, GSK and ELI LILLY respectively] "

Pfizer's 'Zoloft Defence Manual' given to prosecution in cases of zoloft-induced homicide, with their arguments to protect the drug and ensure the person committing homicide while under involuntary (Zoloft) intoxication gets convicted and nothing comes back on Pfizer.

This is also a pdf file.  Obviously this doesn't happen in suicides - which are a more common effect than homicides, but it does give a clue as to how they work. At the end of their document a few points have been added to show at least a bit of how they twist things and fail to add things that would go against them.

http://ssri-uksupport.com/files/pfizerzoloftdefensemanual.pdf