I was one to never want to use anything for depression, because my depression was usually short lived. Then last summer i had a very bad bleed one night that changed my life forever.The story is a long oone, so i will get to the jist of it quickly. I had to have an embolization and thought my problems would be over with hemoptysis. Then 2 weeks after i was home ,totally out of nowhere i suffered a true panic attack which scared me so bad i thought i was going to choke. I tried to deal with it on my own till i had another bleed that required another embolization, and thats when i realized i cannot handle this on my own. I didnt want to leave the house, i was in a constant state of fear, i didnt want to drive my car, go to work, anything at all. I was scared to eat or swallow pills,for fear of choking. It was a horrible experience that kept me shaking almost every waking moment. Then i went on Zoloft after seeing a psychiatrist. He said i had post traumatic stress, due to the life threatening experience. It took only 4 days before i started seeing results. It is almost a year now that i have been on it, and i get scared that i may never get off of it, because the bleeding ( much smaller amounts ,Thank God) happen here and there still. I am still plagued by fear, but it is waaaaay more tolerable with the zoloft. I guess if i never had any bleeds again , i would not need the zoloft anymore. I Pray every day that we find a solution to the problem of hemoptysis ( for everyone that experiences it). It is a truely frightening experience when it gets bad. Someday maybe by the grace of God we will find the solution to the problem, until then i think i'll stay on the zoloft<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> ~ Diane ~ 38, cf, diabetes, b. cepacia