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Week #3 of our trip through ODD land
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 376896" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I strongly suggest keeping some kind of journal or log or diary of his moods. You can find basic mood charts, or just make notes on a daily calendar. A few years back quite a number of us here noticed that for the first few months that our sons were on zoloft they were fine. It helped, esp at first, and things seemed to go quite well. Then a seething anger started to appear. After several more months passed this anger was at an incredible high and present most of the time, esp any time they were not doing exactly what they wanted to do.</p><p> </p><p>The parents who noticed it had kids with all sorts of diagnosis's. Most of us discontinued the zoloft and used another SSRI (prozac, luvox, etc...) instead. We found that anger went away and did not come back. It happened to enough of us, and only on zoloft, that we felt it was significant. My son describes that time as being different from any other time that he was on antidepressants (which is most of the time since age 9). He describes it as being constantly irritated, like being in a bad mood with a low grade headache (not that he had one), with socks that itch and a burr inside your shirt that scratches every time you think you have it removed. So absolutely everything is piled on top of that state or irritation and annoyance and mild anger - making bursts of incredibly anger happen no matter how minor any provocation is.</p><p> </p><p>I am NOT saying that zoloft is a bad medicine, or that your son will react this way. My son did NOT have any physical pain from the medication, the irritation has not ever happened that way before or after, but was pretty amazing. If it had been just us I would not mention it either. It is just something to be aware of. Keeping a journal of his moods/outbursts and any triggers can help if this does become a problem, and if something else is going on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 376896, member: 1233"] I strongly suggest keeping some kind of journal or log or diary of his moods. You can find basic mood charts, or just make notes on a daily calendar. A few years back quite a number of us here noticed that for the first few months that our sons were on zoloft they were fine. It helped, esp at first, and things seemed to go quite well. Then a seething anger started to appear. After several more months passed this anger was at an incredible high and present most of the time, esp any time they were not doing exactly what they wanted to do. The parents who noticed it had kids with all sorts of diagnosis's. Most of us discontinued the zoloft and used another SSRI (prozac, luvox, etc...) instead. We found that anger went away and did not come back. It happened to enough of us, and only on zoloft, that we felt it was significant. My son describes that time as being different from any other time that he was on antidepressants (which is most of the time since age 9). He describes it as being constantly irritated, like being in a bad mood with a low grade headache (not that he had one), with socks that itch and a burr inside your shirt that scratches every time you think you have it removed. So absolutely everything is piled on top of that state or irritation and annoyance and mild anger - making bursts of incredibly anger happen no matter how minor any provocation is. I am NOT saying that zoloft is a bad medicine, or that your son will react this way. My son did NOT have any physical pain from the medication, the irritation has not ever happened that way before or after, but was pretty amazing. If it had been just us I would not mention it either. It is just something to be aware of. Keeping a journal of his moods/outbursts and any triggers can help if this does become a problem, and if something else is going on. [/QUOTE]
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