I feel depressed mostly in the mornings when I recently awake. Is this common among depressed people?. After exercise, breakfast and a shower...I feel much much better and even depression dissapear.
I'd advise against diminishing both at the same time. I'd also advise that, if you don't really need it, use benzos only as needed, not every day. They're an addictive drug, and quitting them can be really really hard. The real question here is, why are you on the meds? If your problem is temporary and the doctor already knows you can quit taking them, are you sure you need them at all? Usually, at least in the old days, people were sent to therapy before trying medication, because all medication can be difficult. And if you needed medication for mental problems, you were sent by your general doc to a psychiatrist. Nowadays, if this site is any guide, general docs are trying to work with drugs they really don't understand very well and don't know how to manage that well. Not to say all general docs are inadequate and all psychiatrists are wonderful, quite the contrary, both are usually not that well educated on medication, but psychiatrists do specialize in using them and helping you stop using them. On the other hand, the fact he has already said you would slowly diminish them shows he understands you have to taper off these drugs slowly so that shows some understanding of them. Here's the rub -- when you start two drugs at the same time, you never learn whether just one would have done it, and of the two, the Zoloft, although no picnic to stop for some people, is by far the easier to stop taking and if it works it works all the time, not just for the relatively short period of time benzos work for.