Dear Nichole:

I was prescribed Zoloft myself and took it for a long, long time before getting off it and all  other psychiatric drugs more than five years ago.

Being numb really is the brain taking a break from distress, shutting down. So  don’t worry about not feeling empathy at the time. Empathy gets shuts down in the brain’s effort to not be distressed, as in: I don’t care, so I don’t hurt.

I  don’t understand the trip to Arizona. Is there a way that once there, if you feel badly around your brother and his wife, that you can get a room in maybe motel 6 or  so? And for how long will you be there?

anita