u/karklelis

I’ve been on Zoloft for around 2-3 months now for depression and OCD.

I’ve had to consistently increase my dosage every 2 weeks or so (per my psychiatrist’s instructions) because while it was working for my depression, it wasn’t helping my OCD at all. I’m now at 125 mg.

I’ve also been prescribed benzos (common for OCD) which I very rarely take and, more recently, 100 mg of quetiapine, to help with my insomnia and strengthen the effects of the antidepressants. I started it when I was still on 100 mg and it does help in that now I feel less compelled to perform my compulsions and can go longer without doing them; however, it still didn’t feel satisfactory, which is why I had my dosage upped again.

Zoloft has been good to me in that the only side effects I’ve experienced up to this point were sleepiness and emotional blunting. However, now that I’m at 125 mg, I’m experiencing a new side effect (never had it before), which is suicidal thoughts. I won’t go into detail but I came close to acting them out yesterday. I’m aware that’s a possible side effect after a dosage increase but the most I’ve felt after increasing my dose several times before was heightened anxiety.

I guess my question is is this normal or does this mean the dose might be too high? Or, on the contrary, does this mean I might be getting close to the correct dose? There’s also the possibility that it might just be the quetiapine fucking with the antidepressants.

Would like to hear others’ experiences and advice.