Dear Becky, Thank you so much for your beautiful compassionate reply to my other post, it helped me through this dark night and gave me hope. You sound like you know what I am going through, I am going to pray for you also. I took Zoloft for about a year, I am now weaning off, 12.5 milligrams in the morning is how I started, I never had real bad side effects, a little loss of appetite, and some agitation, but taking it early helped that so it did not interfer with my sleep, Zoloft is good for most people, I took Paxil and it worked so good for my panic and depression I just gained so much weight on it my nurse took me off it, please do not be scared to take the Zoloft if you start very slow it will be fine, I started very slow and am weaning very slow, Paxil worked better for me, but most people do better on Zoloft. I will e-mail you I would like that. Thank you again for your kind kind words, they came at a time when I needed them the most. GOd bless you. Debbie.