Thanks, guys, for your posts. I did end up getting in touch with the pdoc and in fact got in to see him the following day, took the day off work to do so. Due to my distress the evening that I wrote, I ended up rummaging through my med drawer (I don't throw away old psych meds, unless of course they are expired, because in the past couple years they've been changed so much, you never know when I'll go back on something again.) I ended up deciding to take 25mg Seroquel, which I had been given samples of almost 2 years ago (surprisingly not expired...good thing, b/c it's expensive) for sleep/anxiety but ended up not tolerating well. I know I shouldn't have taken something that wasn't officially "prescribed" at the time but my rationale was that I had been given it legally, it can be used to treat acute bipolar symptoms, and it was better than potentially doing something stupid/self-destructive. I told pdoc what I did, and he was okay with it-- in fact, he was thinking of recommending Seroquel to at least get me through the Zoloft taper. So now I am taking 25 mg Seroquel at night (and it has gotten more tolerable each night I take it...much less grogginess) while still at the 25 of Zoloft. I'll soon go down to 12.5 mg Zoloft, at which point I'll take 50 of Seroquel if needed or just stay at 25. I'm not thrilled with the idea of taking Seroquel long-term (although I will say, I have done pretty well in the 4 days of taking it...haven't cried once when it had been numerous times a day before that) I am comfortable with it for now. I'll be seeing pdoc at least once a week until i'm completely off the zoloft, and I guess we'll just be taking everything one day at a time from there.