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Zoloft

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March 13, 2025

Zoloft by bohurtpotato

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I plant flowers
on the sertraline ashes
of my Alexandrian Library

red and yellow and green
one for each year lost
in grey fog

I can no longer
feel in words
may I at least
weep in colours.

Just one year of Zoloft made me lose around 50% of my vocabulary and give me cognitive damage I've never recovered from, despite years having passed since me being medicated. I'm losing hope I will ever be back to who I was before.

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