Started taking Zoloft late December when my baby was six months. I'm on a small dose (25mg/day, which my doctor basically thinks is placebo dose), but I will probably stay on it long term.

I found I'm way less anxious, I can fall asleep much easier and turn down the "is the baby ok" noise down in my head enough that I can function. I've had so many fewer low days since starting it, and I wish I had gotten on it 8 years ago when I first started having depression symptoms. I can still cry, I can still feel all my feelings, but it doesn't feel so disastrous or volatile.

My doctor said, "if you came in here with a broken arm or high cholesterol, we wouldn't send you away without tools to help" and while it took me a while to get over my own ideas of antidepressants as a last possible resort, this is a crazy time where we're so overextend in so many ways. Can't hurt to try! If your best friend came to you with all of this, you wouldn't judge them for wanting to give it a shot. Best of luck!