Hi everybody,

Please excuse my whining but I know if anyone will understand it is the lovely folks of NMP

I have been on sertraline for anxiety and severe depression since last October - 50mg for the first 8 weeks or so, if I remember correctly, and 75mg since then. While my anxiety has much improved (although it has not disappeared completely), the depression remains.

I have been waiting for counselling and have finally got my first appointment next week, so maybe that will help things, but in the meantime I am still pretty desperate. I have been seeing my GP regularly but I do not see the point in going back except to get more prescriptions as I need them, because I don't see what else they can try to do and I do not want to waste their time.

I am wondering whether it is still possible that sertraline could help me at all, given that it has not affected this depression thus far, or whether I should give up on it. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

to you all,

Stella