Well I have been getting good nights sleep this year, and waking up very sprightly feeling rather good.

I put this down to not smoking pot this year. I have been a large user for a fair old while, and this did me no favours in the energy department.

I love the effects of it, and having been on my own for a long while now it did help to relieve the boredom. But again, being an older person, I need as much energy as I can muster these days.

Having stopped the pot has given me a new wave of energy, the kind that I had long since forgotten, so that's a really good thing for me.

Don't get me wrong, if I am somewhere where it's happening I will happily indulge, but I haven't bought any this year and I don't have it in my house.

I tend to drink more when having breaks from that stuff though. They say that we swap one addiction to another. I'm not a complete piss-head, I abstain a couple of days a week , and only have a few up at the local midweek usually.

The weekends are a different matter though, I do not deny this.

I have always been the type to sleep off any hangover at the weekend. Weird thing is that they say as you age alcohol causes bigger hangovers, and as I said this is not happening to me.

That could be a bad thing 'cause I could do with discouragement :)

Also, I think I was on Zoloft, it rings a bell anyway.

How long have you been on them ?

I hope it goes well for you and I hope you get to a point where you can stop using them.

If you do come off them, take a few months to do it.

I went from a full one, then down to 3 quarters, then a month later half, then only did a quarter for about a week or ten days to zero. Going to zero actually had an awful effect on me. I cannot even describe it but I was in a horrible place. I was determined to get off them though, and have been really good ever since, so that's great.

Cheers buddy, good luck.