ULPT: If you want to call in sick and need a certificate from the doctor, you can often triple the duration of your certificate by telling the doctor that you're working in the food industry.

I went off Zoloft cold turkey last year after been on it for over a decade and a half. Quack doctor got me stuck on them because I was going through some big changes suddenly (single parent household, moved to a new city, grandpa died of alcoholism (more specifically liver failure), had a new step parent with suddenly 3 additional siblings) and was only 12/13. Shit fucked me up so hard emotionally I went through school fine because I was so indifferent to everything like I didn’t care if I lived or died I only was able to motivate myself to get straight A’s in higher classes and a couple AP classes only due to smoking green everyday all day, then when I graduated I found I could bring my emotions and social skills back with alcohol but the combo of antidepressants and alcohol makes it feel like you’ve drank way more, so I blacked out during some important to me life events and fucked up a lot shit due the bare minimum of a mickey a day. Now a ton of my shit is fucked and after an accident (not vehicle related) and a bad dui... well I felt it was the end and started drinking even heavier

Long story short I cold turkeyed Zoloft and in an alcohol fuelled rage and blackout almost killed myself from the withdrawal. I’m no longer a daily alcoholic and I just quit smoking green and cigs and I’m way happier than I was taking antidepressAnts (although I still feel withdrawal sometimes and I know exactly it as how you described, dizzy, hallucinAtions(saw little black dots everywhere). Although I recognize this medication is different for different people and for other reasons, please no one ever put your kids on this shit until all other options are eliminated...

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