Three weeks ago I started taking an antidepressant. I started feeling great after the first pill! Its now 3 weeks in, and I an sleeping...well...a little too much. I used to sleep for only 4 hours per night when I first started on the drugs, but it leveled out about 2 weeks in. I dont know if its the antidepressant, or my own efforts of "interrupting" negative thoughts by saying I Like Myself I Like Myself, I Like Myself, everytime I start to think negative or worry.

I started thinking about stopping, so I took one day off the medication. No effect, I didnt feel any different - except I slept 18 hours straight. Something else I noticed is when I take zoloft, I tend to "feel" tension in my jaw a LOT more than usual, but I dont do anything about it unless I am sleeping. When I wake up my mouth is bleeding, cheeks chewed up, tounge bleeding, jaw is sore and my teeth itch.

Yea, I said my teeth itch, from all the grinding the night before they itch. Its weird. I have noticed I dont really worry about anything anymore, and I am more free spirited. I normally am really self-conscious and self-depricating. Tearing apart things I have done in the past, present, and making them negative somehow. Sicne being on the AD though, a lot of bad things have been happening to me.

Let me give you some examples - I got into a car accident, I ran over my ipod with a forklift, I dont think about anything like I used to, my short term memory is gone, sometimes I have night sweats, I grind my teeth worse than before - I always had bruxism but now its horrible.

I feel like my old self in a way as well though. I go to the gym like I used to, and I find myself enjoying it more. I am more action oriented - I dont think so much about stupid little things, 50% more decisive, and I am much much more positive and worry free. I dont know if its the AD working, or the other things I have been doing. I listen to ThinkRightNow! Audios every night, read positive affirmations frequently, and always interrupt negative thoughts that I dont want to have anymore with "I like myself, i can do it!" I just repete it in my head until the negativity subsides and all I can remember is my affirmation.

Any thoughts on this? I guess the reason i am posting this is mainly because I want to start achieving some goals in my life right now, and they require some learning. I cannot get myself to read anything without forgetting it, or my mind wandering to something else.