How does sertraline (generic zoloft) work for anxiety and panic?
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at
4:38 am
I need some good meds for anxiety and panic and was just prescribed to sertraline (generic zoloft)….how goood does it work for anxiety and panic?
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In English: Seratonin is a "chemical" in the brain that is responsable for a sense of well-being and helps regulate sleep.
In your brain, these chemicals are released, float around for a bit, and then re-absorbed by the brain. It is while the chemical is "floating around" that you feel the effects of it (well-being, calmness). If your body re-absorbs the chemical, seratonin, too fast you may feel anxious and have a sense of feeling anxiety or non-well-being.
What Zoloft does is it prevents your brain from re-absorbing seratonin too fast so you can feel the effects. I take it and it seemed to help a lot with my anxiety but didnt change my personality at all.
Hence the reason it is called a SSRI: Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor
it makes you get more seritonin
If you don’t like zoloft (which can cause sexual dysfunction) try either celexa or lexapro. I had better results with those.
The action of this drug is that it decreases the uptake of serotonin in the CNS which will increase the activity of serotonin. It decreases panic attacks, decreases ocd behavior, decreases feelings of intense fear helplessness or horror, decreases social anxiety and decreases premenstrual dysphoria. It depends on the person. Each person has a different reaction to drugs so its hard to tell whether how good it works. I know someone who was on this and hated it and another person who loved it so…..
it helps your brain but its not an anxiety medication you need to talk to your doctor