So I was recently taken off of zoloft and prescribed lexapro. I didn’t think zoloft was working because I still constantly felt like shit and have a few attempted suicides recently. It’s been 3 days since I took zoloft last and I’m now taking lexapro. I’m starting to think that zoloft must have been helping me because right now I feel the worst I’ve ever felt in my life and I just keep thinking about depressing things and killing myself. Hopefully this lexapro will kick in soon and actually help me more than zoloft was but I just feel so fucking bad right now that I don’t want to wait.

Switching can indeed be a precarious thing, i don’t know how long you’ve been using Zoloft, but anti-depressants are always to be taken with caution. There’s a whole scala of side-effects and if you take them and still feel bad, then the experience is definitly not so nice. I hope you take good care of yourself, also know that there is no pil for every problem, anti-depressants are symptom suppressors, not problem solvers. I therefore truelly hope you are working together with a theraphist to work on the root of your problems. If you feel like venting you can post your entire story here too.
The source of my depression is my inability to make a close connection with people. I go through phases where I’m very outgoing and make friends but then suddenly I get overcome with the feeling that everyone hates me so I isolate myself. I recently became friends with a girl who was the only person that I never though hated me after talking to her for a while. I recently ruined that friendship and now I’m right back in the same place thinking that everyone hates me which in turn makes me hates me and want to just slit my wrist. I don’t know why I can’t escape this feeling especially since I’ve had many people telling me that the other thing about me that bothers them is me asking them if they think I’m annoying. It seems like a self esteem issue but when I think about myself I see no major flaws. I think I’m funny and know others think so. I don’t really look all that shabby. And I’m semi-smart. But none of this matters because I feel that no matter how "good" of a person I am everyone still hates me.

You are bipolar II. I know, I am and I go through the same thing. Lexapro is > zoloft, I’ve been on both, but you need a mood stabilizer.

after my parent came up to school to talk to my doctor and she found out I’ve been hurting myself she mentioned that i may be bi polar. I don’t know all the in’s and out’s of bi polarism but I’ve never wanted to hurt anyone else or anything. I don’t have sudden burst of rage around people. When I’m interacting with people I always try to be outgoing. It’s when I’m by myself that I get all emotional and what not.
Today I feel like I’m completely spiraling out of control. I can’t focus on my school work at all. I just keep having very bad thoughts over and over and over. If lexapro doesn’t start working soon then I’m just going to give up on taking pills. I was feeling depressed for quite some time before I started taking any anti-depressants but it wasn’t until I started taking them that I started feeling like killing myself.

If you are bipolar antidepressants will make you swing out of control. If you are feeling like this you need to see a doctor, you most likely need a mood stabilizer such as lamictal or depekote to go along with it.

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