Dear Scott:

The anxiety you suffer from drains a lot of energy from the sufferer. It is the biochemistry involved, draining one from energy. If you suffered less anxiety, your energy level would go up and your motivation much improved.

Regarding Zoloft, I may have shared it with you before: I used to be on 400 mg per day for years, then 300 mg. I successfully went off it a few years ago. At times, many times while taking Zoloft I thought I was feeling better. Yet, looking back at the 17 or so years of high dosage Zoloft, my functioning in life all through those years declined.

My subjective feeling at times was better (how much of it is the placebo affect, I don’t know), but my exhaustion remained, my anxiety was on, and my functioning steadily declined.

Managing and healing from anxiety, that draining biochemistry, is your best bet. And it is possible, although it takes that initially … draining attention, or mindfulness, a different way of being.

anita