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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
neechoudai
neechoudai

I just want to say something quick: there’s a lot of stuff on the tag where people are sharing more bad experiences with Zoloft/sertraline than good ones. That’s fine, of course! But it can be concerning to people who are just starting out. Case in point, me. But if you’re about to start taking this medicine and are scared of the side effects, know that it’s not all going to be bad! It might happen but it might not. I personally have had none of the side effects I feared.

My counselor once told me, “the reason why there’s so many negative posts is probably because the people it works for don’t post because they’re feeling better now.” So I figured I would be the positive voice and let y'all know that it’s not always as terrible as the tag leads us to believe. As someone who had an anxiety attack for twenty four hours about getting the courage to take the pill, it has been great for me. Again, no side effects, and I have been noticing it is becoming easier and easier to get out of my anxious thinking and depressive episodes.

I’m not discounting people’s bad experiences. Sometimes one med works and another doesn’t. I’m just trying to show some reassurance that there are good experiences, and it’s not only bad.

Good luck, and best wishes to everyone! I hope you find the treatments that work best for you! :)

thatsmybluefondue
biscuitsarenice

“Here in the Pacific, 200 metres down, we enter an alien world… This is barreleye a fish with a transparent head filled with jelly so that it can look up through its skull.” - Sir David Attenborough

Blue Planet II

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Remember that we used to think they looked like this:

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Because they were known only from dead specimens whose jelly-heads collapsed at the surface

simhealing
simhealing

Everything is terrifying, but humans are so strong. 

Societies at my university are doing food bank drives. Italians are singing on their balconies and cheering health workers that go by. My university originally wasn’t going to close so lecturers took matters into their own hands and cancelled their classes, and now the university IS closing. When the government response isn’t strong enough, people are cancelling mass gatherings themselves and isolating to limit the spread. One of my friends is streaming to her self-isolating friends. My mum is going back to work tomorrow in an NHS reception. The Australian Grand Prix got cancelled and now 10,000+ people are watching an esports game version of the race on Twitch and making memes about it. All over the world, people are trying to cheer each other up.

My biggest problem with apocalypse movies, with zombie tv shows, has always been the way it portrays a world post-disaster. When humans were living in caves and hunting for survival, they drew art on the walls and told stories that were passed down in oral tradition. When London closed for the plagues, theater troupes would go around the country performing for the smaller villages instead. The human drive to create, to entertain, to adventure, to see and do new things, has always been and will always be unmoved by a crisis. 

So yes people are panic buying, yes employers and governments are being selfish and cruel. But more than ever this has highlighted that, that is not what humans are. It’s something we’re pushed to be by this society, actual cruelty is an outlier.

I’ve been clinically depressed for a long time, so it feels bizarre to say: I love humans. I am overflowing with how much I really, truly, love us. Humans are silly, tender, hopeful, and social creatures. Even something as small as a long train journey, delayed and late at night, is enough for humans to take up solidarity. No matter what happens, what state the world is in, what alterations we have to make to our lives, we will never escape being recognizably, inherently human. Thank god.