>I experienced pupil dilation, extreme fatigue, difficulty thinking, shakiness, horrific disturbing nightmares, a sense of disconnectedness and of the stumpification of the tree that was my soul."
"Stumpification"? Oh please.

I have taken Zoloft for over a year. Out of these, the only thing I've experienced was the pupil dilation. Big deal -- I'm a computer geek, I spend most of my time in semi-darkness anyway.

The shakiness, horrible nightmares, et al., are things that have plagued me for most of my life. They decreased markedly once I started Zoloft. Didn't go away -- I only wish they had -- but I think that would take something more like Thorazine.

>James describes the difference between being depressed, and being on Zoloft as a solution to depression:
>Depression and drug-induced numbness are two different things. When you are depressed your eyes are wide open, and you see blackness and desolation everywhere - death, disease, misery - the world the way it is without hope. But when you are numb you cannot feel at all. You are a machine. This makes it easier to be a slave in this world of slavery, but it also prevents you from being anything more.
<snip a bunch of crap grade-school-quality poetry>

Bullshit. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

Zoloft does NOT induce numbness. Trust me -- I'm as emotional as I ever was. They're just different emotions, which is *not* a problem for me, considering what I had before.

Without drugs: you can't feel anything except the pain. You're cold, so cold, and you can't get warm no matter how you try... I used to cut myself just to make sure I could still feel.

With the drug: uh-huh, yeah, I'm real numb. I laugh with people, I participate in class (which I almost never did before), I write more than ever, I've got great friends and a wonderful boyfriend and I love them all to distraction, I'm finding myself opening up to new people and experiences where before I was too afraid even to look anyone in the eye.

As far as I'm concerned, Baron, you can take that David James stuff, fold it so it's all sharp corners, and stuff it in your...
...recycling bin.

See? I'm not violent at all :) Lianna Skywalker SP4 "When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read." -- Dr. Hannibal Lecter

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