Dear Nichole:

You are welcome. If you do take psych drugs, it will be a slow process: the doctor will prescribe a small dosage of a drug, Zoloft, let’s say, then have you call him or visit after a week or two (and a third, fourth call/ visit to follow), ask how you are feeling, side effects and so on, then either keep  you on the same dosage or increase the dosage or prescribe a different SSRI or add another drug.

After some time you are set with one or more drugs of certain dosages. Over time if you feel worse, the type of drugs and dosages will be reconsidered, this one  lowered, that one increased, and so  on. Getting off the drugs is always difficult, gradual, same process, lowering, checking after a week or two, sometimes taking yet a new drug as you take less and less of the existing ones.

Regarding the visit to AZ, will you tell me how the visit came about, how your brother in Michigan brought it up to you, what he said about it, and what communication you had with the brother in AZ since the molestation and recently?

anita