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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Let me clarify a few things.  First and foremost, I have been on an SSRI for 20 years.  I am not against them.  I am saying the warning is there for a reason.

My understanding is depression / anxiety is complex.  In DD's case, I am betting that what we saw with the higher dose was a reduction of anxiety.  She was much calmer.  But, apparently, it did not help the depression.  She was not fearful of the results, but she felt bad.  And she hit a very short term deeper depression -- she wanted the pain to stop.  So, she tried to stop it.

I thought the zoloft was working, because we were not seeing the anxiety outbursts. But it just took care of the anxiety, and not the depression.

She is down to a minor dose of zoloft, and will probably be off it within a week.  Something will replace it.  She is also on Ability (very low dose) to help those really short term deep depressions.

And she is in an IOP multiple days a week, to try do get her better coping strategies.

I could have lost my daughter because of a documented side effect.  I wish I knew how it was manifesting in her before it got critical.

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