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I don't want to further complicate my health. My doctors are somewhat appalled at the idea that I want to get off the sertraline but in my other burnouts, I didn't need it. Granted, I'm definitely more overwhelmed in young adulthood than I was by acknowledging other kids; yet, I think I'm taking too many meds that are causing weight gain and I've gone up a bra size. I was told the minimum time I would have to be on sertraline is a year and it didn't speed up the process of my burnout like I'd hoped it would. In my adult life, I need to establish an emergency savings fund for when I burnout and need to bounce back if I can't prevent the burnout altogether.

The doctor's office has a new woman who tried to talk me down from weaning myself off it. . . by calling herself a somewhat expert because of her work with ASD in her internship. That's bogus to me because she isn't my attending physician and doesn't know that I've been trying to address burnout for a while and my physician didn't know what it is. I understand the need for confidence, but does anyone else have issues with people constantly offering "professional advice" despite being an infallible human? How do I deal with it? Taking medicine I don't need is dangerous for my health and I need to articulate that today. I eagerly await your responses.

Have you discussed all of this with a mental health professional or just your family doctor? If not, it might be helpful to gain a fresh perspective.

Burnouts are not inevitable. It’s a good idea to try to organize your life in a way to keep them from happening. I realize that that isn’t always possible.

Meds don’t have to cause weight gain. I’m on two that cause weight gain, but I’ve lost weight through being vigilant about what I eat.

I have. I'm seeing a psychiatrist. He's nice. The meeting went well. I'm decreasing my dosage and seeing how things plays out. But yeah, I've been coming out of burnout for the past month so I feel myself feeling more than a little fatigued even though I started BC over two months ago.

Judging from the weight gain, I think I have to trim things out of my diet that I've been eating since before the meds. I started birth control and I have a lot of extra water retained. The thing is that I am vigilant, it's just I have to put in more exercise to balance it out but I'm always too tired...

Much of the medical profession is horrified by any drug-free condition. It threatens both their income and prestige. They are constantly being brainwashed by the for-profit drug companies that also cheat on the tests. Withdrawal can be tricky, and could use more support. Meditation usually helps.

I take medication because I also have bipolar disorder, and when I'm on medication I can handle things like stress in a better way. I tried stopping and it was a disaster, stressful situations were too much for me and I ended up having a nervous breakdown. As soon as I started taking my meds again, I felt better, after 1-2 weeks.

I hate admitting I depend on meds and that I'll probably have to take them forever, but if they help me cope with stuff better then why not? I'm not "normal", and even though it causes various issues in my life, I learned how to accept it and live with it.

In drug testing, they don't test to see if a new drug is better than the one in use, they just test to see if it helps at all. They give one group the drug, and give a control group a placebo, usually a sugar pill. In testing for psychoactive drugs, the control group knows which they are if they don't feel a bit different, so a few testers don't use sugar pills, choosing something that produces mental effects with no known therapeutic value. In those tests, the drug shows no advantage - either one is just something that convinces the patient that this is a good time to try a new behaviour, due to the things people say about it. However, if you have learned how to cope with your chemistry altered, there is a new learning on how to do it naturally.