so I finally admitted defeat.
wife has left and were going through divorce. After three failed attempts at suicide, I’ve today been prescribed sertraline. Does anyone have good or bad experiences of this?
Also anyone here survived divorce. To put mine in context my wife of fourteen years was my school sweetheart and left with my two young kids three months age due to my depression and anxiety. Any tips on how you moved forward?
suicide is on my mind constantly still. My new life in front of me fills me with further depressing thoughts.
I hate my life.
hope you’re all feeling as good as you can be today!
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1) survived Divorce
2) I fucking hate pills but they are the only thing that got me through #1.
I’m sorry you’re going through something so painful. Sertraline didn’t really have any effect on me, but neither did any of the medications I’ve tried so far. But I’ve heard a couple of people say it really helped them, so I hope you’ll be one of those. 🙂 I don’t have any experience/advice on divorce but I know plenty of people here have been through it, so I’m sure you’ll get some great advice. Try not too much about the future when you’re this suicidal already. For most of us those thoughts are lethal.
I was given it when I was in the hospital, but it didn’t really do anything for me aside from put me to sleep. Might be because it’s meant to be used for bipolar and I’m not, but I’ve heard that at higher doses it’s supposed to help with depression in some people.
Nothing like off brand rx experimentation to make your fucking day.
Right? Funny thing is, the entire three weeks I was in the hospital, they didn’t put me on a single antidepressant even though I was there because I had tried to commit suicide. I wonder sometimes….
Some of the biggest asshats I know have M.Ds and PhDs.
Oh! So sorry, mistaken Zoloft for quetiapine!
Err.. Zoloft, I tried it. It worked somewhat for me, but in the end whatever led to me being depressed (the root of my problems) was not being fixed, so I ended up falling back to depression. But it did work, so I hope it helps you!
Sorry for the confusion haha
Ah, Zoloft. Yeah I tried it for a short while. I thought its dopaminergic neurotransmission effects showed promise, but I had an irritating side effect where I would start to sneeze (ah…ah…ah…) and not finish (no choo!). Seriously. Like about four times a day. Switched to Paxil.
My wife of ten years was some nice random woman with a kid I really loved. She caught the gay virus (I Joke!) and left me for another woman. (Another?) She left me for A woman. She would have left our son with me but only she had a cage big enough to hold him. I think I was sad for about two weeks. Closed my consulting business, sold all the furniture, books, electronics, and sex toys. Then I got on Plenty of Fish and Match dot com and dated as many women as possible until I found a gullible weak-minded hard-body aerobics instructor, who I had a relationship with for 5.65 years.
If my wife had an issue with depression she would have dumped me after two years, but she was pretty tolerant. She had her own issues which I was tolerant of. There’s an old saying: Don’t marry someone you love; marry someone you can stand. That described us pretty well.
Sorry you are having to deal with this. You may not want it but you are being handed a golden opportunity to reinvent yourself. Do it with a degree of grace and humor and you will be teaching your kids a priceless lesson that will make them more capable adults.
God this makes me want to sell everything and take my chickens on a tour to cheer up terminally ill children and old folks.
I really like chickens that can play tic-tac-toe.
YEEEEEEEHAAAW! (sorry, just had to)
My chickens would agree, including the one that started crowing this month.
Sertraline did help my mom with depression, but did nothing for me (for some reason we always get opposite/negative results on meds). I’m really sorry about your divorce, i do hope that you find what you need to carry on or to do whatever you want to do.
Divorce allowed me to invent myself into someone I now kinda get a kick out of living with. It took fucking years to learn this though.