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Panic attacks feel like I'm not part of reality and losing my mind

Ever since I stopped zoloft my panic attacks got worse but I'm here on this site and I'm in need of help, so I'll explain please I'm really in need of help , I've been as of recently been feeling  like reality is slipping away from me and  for example me my girl want out today on a drive cause I suffer from something called agoraphobia about a month an a half ago by my therapist and she recommended I be put on a antidepressant cause I had depression to with panic attacks but back to today so my girl drives cause I don't have my drivers licenses and I also get panic attacks in cars due to a accident I was in when I was a kid , so my girl drove cause I needed to get out of the house and I needed to found my new primary care doctors address and we did, so we drove around for about a half an hour longer and went back to the house and as soon as I got back to the house I felt like it never happened that we didn't go out and I couldn't remember for some reason  and this has been going on for about a week an a half so far. If anyone here seen my lost post you'll see but I just felt like I'm gong crazy and I'm scared and was crying cause I'm losing it and my girls elks me that your not going crazy or losing ur mnd but to me it feel like it does. I even get this feeling that I don't know where I'm at when I'm having a really bad panic attack. Please anyone one this site .i know if anyone one of you can't really help but it's the fact that I see and reply back that makes me feel better cause I know I'm not the only one going through this.
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You may very well be suffering from withdrawal from quitting too quickly, which is why I asked.  It also might be the case you haven't resolved any of your problems in therapy or otherwise, so you still need to be on medication or pursue some other form of treatment.  Quitting these meds abruptly can lead to some pretty weird and intensifying problems, so if it hasn't been that long since you stopped you might want to go back on the Zoloft and taper off slowly if that's what you want to do and then pursue alternatives.
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This all only happened after the zoloft and the reason I quit cause of side effects, tried calling and making a appointment to my psych but never in so I called the pharmacy and I just quit which was not the best idea.
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Why did you stop the Zoloft?  And how abruptly did you quit?
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