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I have an excessive obsessive fear of aging and dying. I ruined my life completely. I see no hope. I cannot function and I feel in danger and impending doom. I fear the future. I am all alone with an empty life. I have been on 50 mg Zoloft for one week and 100 my for one week so two weeks total. Everything is wrong in my life. I am 51 and feel that it is too late now.

When will the Zoloft start working??

Drugs.com has an informative write up. It says some effects in 2 weeks, full effects in 4 to 6 weeks. I guess, try to find some little joy in life. I hear you on the i messed it up.

I need it to work. It is my only hope.

I’m sure this isn’t exactly what you want to hear but it takes time for the meds to work. so patience is so important. You could also contact whoever prescribed the meds and tell them what’s going on with them and get their opinion.

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I can relate to your feelings. It’s incredibly scary to feel like this. As part of my wider health anxieties, getting older and facing the future terrifies me, and it can be all consuming to the point where I am unable to function. I have lost count of the times I have been convinced I am dying. It is a terrible thing to experience.

Having said that you are on medication, presumably you are therefore in discussions with your doctor, which is a really positive thing. One of the important features I find is putting my trust in the health care providers, accepting that I need help, and then allowing them to work with me.

Has your doctor suggested any form of counselling? Whilst I fluctuate in the severity of my anxiety and depression, counselling does help me. I’m working back through all of the things I worked on with my counsellor earlier this year, and it is helping. It’s not perfect, but sadly there’s no “silver bullet” solution for these things.

As an aside, I am a great believer that there is no such thing as “too late”. 51 is still incredibly young, and you can, with help, find a way through this, no matter how bleak life seems. Never give up hope, even on the darkest day.

I hope your medication starts to give you some relief from the suffering over the coming weeks.

Reading self-help books improves my state of mind. I recently read Russ Harris’s “The Happiness Trap”, within which I found some really useful stuff.

Best wishes, Jeff.