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All I Want for Christmas Is Zoloft
After a few weeks on the antidepressant, my self-critical inner voice decreased to a whisper
If you’re looking to shake things up this holiday season, may I humbly recommend some Zoloft? Sure, you may suddenly develop a ravenous desire for sugar at all hours of the day, but it turns out that not being irritable and anxious all the time is actually pretty terrific!
A few weeks of taking the antidepressant the birds will chirp a little louder, and your self-critical inner voice will decrease to a whisper. Professional and personal setbacks won’t feel so monumental; you’ll find yourself smiling and laughing a whole lot more. At least, that’s what happened for me.
The only downside to Zoloft for me is that I didn’t start taking it 10 years earlier. Certainly I did myself no favors by waiting, and letting stigma get the better of me.
Like so many people my age — especially those of us who have parents with immigrant roots or who were lower-income — I grew up in a family where depression and anxiety weren’t thought of as real issues. Parents who thought that therapy was a “rich people thing,” that if you had food in your belly and a roof over your head you really didn’t have anything to complain about. I had a job and…
