I've been on Zoloft twice. I started taking it the first time about 5 years ago and it really helped a lot with my Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Attacks. After several years it seemed to be less effective or, at any rate, my GAD and Panic Attacks started flaring up again. So I came off Zoloft with the intention of trying something else. But then my psychiatrist said that I should have stayed on it and tried a higher dose! So now I'm back on it again and I'm meant to be going up to 150 mg or 200 mg daily.

I've been back on Zoloft for about 4 weeks and at the moment I'm on 100 mg daily. At first I didn't think it was working at all, but for the past few days I have definitely been feeling considerably better. My anxiety has decreased quite a bit and I'm having fewer panic attacks. Aside from anxiety I also have depression/dysthymia and Zoloft helps me with that too. I am nervous about increasing my dose because when I tried to do that the other day it made me more anxious. But now that I feel more stable I might try again to increase the dose.

Anyhow, I would say that this medication is helpful for me and I really hope it helps you too! Are you in therapy as well? I've recently gone back into therapy because the combo of meds + therapy is supposed to work well in the treatment of Anxiety and Panic Disorder.

Good luck to you and let us know how you get on!