I was on it for about five months, give or take.

It was not fun. I have what I've basically started describing as a giant blackout in my memory from that period and a few months after. I have a small handful of random memories, but I couldn't tell you what classes I took that semester, I couldn't tell you what the holidays were like. I've heard accounts of things that I did through friends and from facebook that I have zero recollection of.

I do remember pleading with my doctor to let me try a different medication because I was just so out of it. I was also tired literally all the time. I started taking my pills at about five every day with the intention of finishing my homework and stuff, because within an hour I would pretty much be zombied out and then asleep and it was the only way I was able to wake up on time the next day. I gained a ton of weight, but I don't know if that was a side effect of the zoloft itself of just a consequence of how out of it I was and that I didn't have the energy to pay attention to my diet and go exercise. I also don't know if it affected my sex drive at all, because I don't remember if my boyfriend at the time and I ever had sex during that period or not.

I don't think it made me feel better, and unfortunately I had to quit meds all together because my doctor was more interested in accusing me of being on various types of illegal drugs than she was helping me feel better. I was 100% sober at that time, I had even quit drinking and had never touched any hard drugs (Still haven't). One of my few actual memories was threatening to piss in her coffee cup so she could use it for a drug test if she was so skeptical of my sobriety, and I never went back for another appointment.

On the other hand, my best friend has been on Zoloft for about three years now, after trying around a dozen other psych meds and it's the only one that works for her. She's become a much happier person on it and feels that she rarely has depressive episodes now. She still experiences some anxiety, but it is a lot better than it used to be for her.

Psych meds are a whole bundle of weird stuff that you have to try out to find something that works for you. Our brains and bodies are weird as hell, and what might work for one person can cause another person to go off the deep end. Be your own patient advocate and make sure your doctor listens to you and is willing to work with you to try different things until you find something that genuinely works and makes you feel the way you want to feel.