Coaching practices for How Do I Know If Sertraline is Not Working

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• I’ve had a couple of rough sessions in a row and I’m starting to believe none of this is working
• My days have all blurred into one long flat stretch where I’m sure nothing makes any difference
• When I try to calm myself I can’t tell if anything’s actually budging
• I’m weighing myself every morning and letting that one jumpy number decide whether the whole thing is working
• I lie there checking every few minutes whether I’m asleep yet, and the monitoring keeps me wired

Practices that may help

1. Track SUDs across sessions to see your own progress
   Record distress ratings before and after each session so progress is visible and motivating.
   Counter-Conditioning and Systematic Desensitization
2. Activity monitoring: track what you do and how it affects your mood
   Log your activities hourly for a week alongside your mood — to see what is actually helping or hurting.
   Behavioral Activation: Acting Your Way Out of Low Mood
3. Use the SUD scale to track progress honestly
   Rate your distress 0–10 before and after each round to make changes visible and guide when to stop.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
4. Measure how you feel, not just the scale
   Judge fasting by energy, focus, sleep, and your relationship with food — not weight alone.
   Intermittent Fasting, Honestly Explained
5. Apply dereflection to insomnia and sleep anxiety
   When you cannot sleep, stop trying to sleep and redirect attention to something you are genuinely curious about instead.
   Logotherapy: Dereflection
6. Hold realistic expectations for SSP outcomes
   SSP is a promising early-stage intervention, not a cure; knowing what it can and cannot promise prevents harm.
   The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP): What It Is and What the Evidence Shows
7. Track completion signals after each titrated dose
   After retreating to the resource, watch for signs that the nervous system is completing a small processing cycle.
   Titration in Somatic Practice, Made Practical
8. Evaluate the outcome and adjust
   After implementing, honestly assess what worked, what didn’t, and what to do next.
   Problem-Solving Therapy, Made Practical
9. Rate emotional intensity before and after
   Record your emotional intensity (0–100) at the start and end of each thought record to track real change.
   The Thought Record: CBT’s Core Self-Examination Tool
10. Include tryptophan-rich foods to support serotonin production
    About 90 percent of the body’s serotonin is made in the gut — feeding that process starts with dietary tryptophan.
    The Gut-Brain Axis: How Your Gut Talks to Your Brain

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