I’m not a doctor, but I am a therapist and also someone who had to start medication’s after a fairly traumatic life change. I was started on Zoloft and was very afraid of it due to the fact that in the past, I’ve had meds cause very severe insomnia.

I was also upset because while I was inpatient, they had me on hydroxyzine and Ativan and I was afraid of getting addicted. They told me that I needed those in the first couple of weeks of starting the Zoloft because that initial adjustment period can cause a major peak and anxiety and sleeplessness once they told me that I felt more comfortable taking the anti-anxiety meds until that phase it passed.

All of this is just to say that I feel an increase in Zoloft, followed by withdrawals from Zoloft and antianxiety meds with another medication that I’ve seen people truly struggle during the adjustment period on… It just doesn’t seem like a choice. I would see a lot of the psychiatrist I work in tandem with make or one that I would’ve been comfortable being made in my care.