M.S.
Age: 25 | Czechia
"It all started in 2016 when I was 18 and got prescribed Trittico (trazodone) for sleep problems. I took it for 1 or 2 days and stopped as I didn't see it helpful. But I was lucky enough to get severe anhedonia and probably other symptoms of PSSD that persisted for 1 or 2 months. But as I had no idea the problems could be related to trittico, I thought I had depression and couldn't bear it.
I went to a psychiatrist and got prescribed Zoloft (sertraline), and I became delusional and overall very bad PSSD. 2 or 3 months on Zoloft, and I ended up at the psych ward. After a few weeks there, when I was at 100mg Zoloft, I quit cold turkey and left all psychiatry as I started to realize how bad the pills made me and how clueless psychiatry truly is. As I stopped taking Zoloft, I got some relief, as I was not as delusional and did not have as vivid suicidal ideation (they still persisted but not that intrusive).
I have stayed clean for 3 years, tried to live as healthy and reasonably as possible, but nothing really got better. For 4 years, I have been experimenting from herbs to diets to drugs to meds, and I am just amazed at how insanely it changed the body system to not be able to react to hundreds of substances.
So here I am, 7 years later since I TRIED Trittico for sleep. Not able to love, think, numb, empty, exhausted, and diminished.
From a life full of experiences and passion to just working hard to keep myself alive.
Doctors will just throw every symptom at stress and depression and so on. I am getting zero help from the medical system."