Zoloft soldiers?
Two articles this morning on the incidence of US soldiers in theater taking psychiatric drugs, anti-depressants, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, etc. (Telegraph, Time)
Time Magazine cites a number of "about 12% of combat troops in Iraq and 17% of those in Afghanistan are taking prescription antidepressants or sleeping pills."
Is that outside the normal population?
Time Magazine cites a number of "about 12% of combat troops in Iraq and 17% of those in Afghanistan are taking prescription antidepressants or sleeping pills."
Is that outside the normal population?
posted by mikevotes at
5:48 AM
2 Comments:
If this is accurate -- and I am not sure it is -- then the military percentages are disproportionately high. But caveat emptor.
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Lex Alexander, at 12:20 PM
My name is Stephen Long and i would like to show you my personal experience with Zoloft.
I am 40 years old. Have been on Zoloft for 2 years now. Zoloft certainly got rid of my depression and anxiety. It also helped me with sleeping and I did not gain any weight like others have. However I was younger when I tried this so perhaps my metabolism worked differently then. It was impossible to reach orgasm on this drug so I would sometimes delay taking my drug to give my body a mini wash out period and this helped. However, if I waited too long to take the tablet, I endured severe headaches and had to lie down. Fortunately, this was reversible as soon as I took the drug again. I eventually tapered off this drug thanks to my doctor's plan which worked perfectly. The main reason I gave up Zoloft is because at the time there were reports saying that long term use of it was dangerous.
I have experienced some of these side effects -
Sweatiness, loss of libido, EXTREME headaches if forget to take drug.
I hope this information will be useful to others,
Stephen Long
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