u/OkBasil9945

I have tried to switch 3 times and failed. You would think since Ssris work similarly they would work. Even high dose Zoloft did nothing for me, no side effects either besides crazy eye zapping but that's gone away.

The only thing that does anything is Paxil, but the most common side effects yes I have. Yet it's the only thing that works. The side effects are the most out of anything ever though has anyone tried something that has worked for them well?

I am going back to my paxil and instead of 20mg I'm going to 10mg, tapering off my 100mg of Zoloft. I've already noticed it takes longer masterbation wise for the first 3 days of taking it, but I am so excited to start feeling calmer again.

Paxil is the only ssri I've ever felt calm on, the reason I quit it is it has the most side effects of any Ssri I've ever taken, like wild dreams and more sedation. But damn does it make me feel so much better, calmer, not as tense. The dreams aren't nightmares, they are generally good dreams and make my day 1000x better since I don't usually have them, it's odd. Idk how to explain this ssri either, it's just strong compared to anything else I've taken.

I have had a super good week, then a shit week ( I blamed it on starting a new job) a great week, then now I'm back in the shitter and for no reason at all. I feel like I was eyes wide open, actually not depressed anymore. Like there was actually life in my eyes and they have gone back down. Like randomly I just want to quit my job and sleep all damn day. I haven't had really a shit week either. Idk if the Zoloft is working for me as it makes me feel better, but for some reason I have shit weeks in between.

I finally put my two weeks in. Walgreens is not the worst job I've had, actually the best at the other location i worked at that got shut down. I have been working at a new one that is in the middle of town, and it is the busiest Walgreens I've ever worked at.

When I first started, people would constantly do drugs and steal stuff in our bathroom, so they put a code lock on the door and we have to go back there everything to open this damn door. Every time someone has to use the restroom we have to open it. And this door is right next to pharmacy and in the very back of the store, yet the front has to open it. When I tell you this door goes off every 2 minutes. Between that and the Chime.

Chime is probably my biggest issue with working at Walgreens. Every time I walk away from the register someone has to load 1000 dollars on chime. They treat us like a bank so when people's cards don't work they hold up customers in line, and often people claim we didn't load it on there to try to get free money out of us. It causes a whole mess of issues and i feel like a ping pong going back and forth. Sometimes I will have a super long line and someone will legit say they are about to piss themselves and i have to let them in the bathroom now. Chime is so fucking ridiculous though and it's the worst part of our job. Yesterday we did over 10,000 dollars worth of chime alone, and had more people doing chime than actual customers. People get angry when they can't load over 1000 dollars, or come in and use our atm to load it on their chime 24/7. It's not something you would expect to be dealing with more than actual customers, and management does not understand how much because they do not work evening shifts at all.

Overall I cannot wait to be free of that place. I would have stayed if the bathroom and chime wasn't such a damn issue. I do not hate working evening shifts but with chime somehow getting more popular over the 2 years I've worked there it's just become such a nightmare to deal with.

I didn't even mention the fact that Walgreens does not even trust their cashiers enough to let them load over 350 on chime or cards in general, so they have to have a shift lead or manager scan their badge and count it. This means when it's just me and my shift lead (which is 80 percent of my shifts since I'm in the evening) I legit have to call him in the car and force him to come in every time someone wants to load 500. They asked me a year ago if I wanted to be a shift lead, and I told them no because I don't want to be forced to come in every 5 minutes on my lunch. The shift lead I work with is very irritated with it too, and he probably gets 20 minutes instead of his usual 30 due to the amount of large chime amounts people put on there. It's just such a shit system and if Walgreens wants to operate as a bank or service desk type of thing they need to trust the cashier operating it, shift leads do not have the time to come to the register every 3 minutes for a chime card. I might as well have my manager check everyone out and be the cashier while I do everything else, which is a dumb system.

I've went from 50mg to 100mg and have been on the 100mg for nearly 2 weeks now. Reminds me of being a little bit wired like the wellbutrin but not as overstimulating. I have not felt depressed this week at all, actually just feel "better" overall which no antidepressant has done. 50mg didn't do much but 100 I have been feeling the best I have in a minute, and I hope it isn't a honeymoon phase or anything. The only side effect i have is eye twitching, and I don't feel nearly as sleepy as I did as Paxil, and not as anxious as I did on Prozac and wellbutrin.