I had worked my way through education over many years, after working in heavy industry with my hands, only acquiring high school level qualifications in my early 20’s, and I secretly felt inadequate in my new work environment. These were nothing however to the social anxiety I felt working around very domineering and confident people, as I was secretly a person with very low self esteem. I decided I needed to test medication, to see if my problems were neurological rather than psychological, though I was totally opposed to psychiatric medication in principle, having been subjected to other psychiatric medication forcibly as a teenager.Īt the time of my experience with Sertraline I was employed as a trainee solicitor in London, with considerable demands of time and performance on me. I had been seeing a clinical psychologist for about 2 years before trying medication, with huge benefits for my insight into my condition, but without impacting sufficiently on my symptoms to deal with an increasingly stressful work situation. In 2014, at the age of 24, I was prescribed Sertraline 50 mg which I took once a day to deal with a longstanding problem with severe anxiety and social phobia, including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) elements, experienced mainly in my work environment, stemming from years of trauma as a teenager. A lot of memory for instance is caught up in muscles and there is a lot of serotonin in muscles – it may be just coincidence but Tiger Woods appears to have lost his golfing touch around a time when he took medication. Effects like this don’t necessarily occur in the brain. The author initially figured his problems were linked to memory but is now not so sure. There is no doubt people can be left with permanent dysfunction after a short course of SSRIs, or permanent depersonalization, so a permanent change of identity is possible and even likely for some – but features nowhere in the books. Editorial Note: This post reflects a probably not uncommon reality.
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