Good morning everyone. I have been meaning to ask this for a while but haven't gotten around to it. I will try to keep it short. TL;DR at the bottom if it ends up being too long.

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Backstory:

Long story short, my anxiety started in a toxic relationship around 4 years ago as well as the stresses of starting college and taking harder classes. The realization of my future really hit me for the first time ever, and it was the first time I had ever felt depression/anxiety about my own life.

The anxiety manifested itself as me getting axious whenever I feel stuck (physically or figuratively). The first thing to really go was driving. I used to drive by myself everywhere without thinking twice about it. Then I started not really wanting to go as far. Fast forward and at my worst about a year ago I couldnt drive down the street to pick up some flowers for my GFs birthday. Thats when I started going to therapy.

The next thing to start happening was I started feeling very nervous/anxious being home alone until the point that a few times I had a panic attack and high anxiety when my parents left. 

I could go into more detail but essentially those are the two biggest problems I have and they limit my life severly. I have been seeing another therapist for the last 7 months and while a lot of progress was made, I transferred from community to a university and it caused me more anxiety than anything else I have been faced with before. The stress of getting in, if im going to be able to pull off the workload, etc. It is possible this also was on my mind way back when I started community because I knew it was coming down the road.

Of course the home isolation and pandemic stress / dog dying / girlfriends parents getting divorces / her dad getting in an accident didnt help any of this. Needless to say its been a hell of a few years.

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The point of this post TL;DR:

Regardless, my therapist finally told me that perhaps I should consider going on Zoloft because, while  I am making progress, it might not be as fast as I want it to be given that I have to go to college in person soon and a lot of oppertunities will suffer because of the way I feel. The thing is I dont feel this way ALL the time. There have been many occasions I will go out by myself (in the immediate area though) or stay home by myself without my anxiety going above a 6. However the mornings are usually hard for me. I get stressed easily, tired, irritable, and the day feels like too much to deal with. This usually fades by 4pm but losing the first half of my day isnt right.

Should I honestly give Zoloft a try? I am concerned about side affects and feeling worse than I started out, but if it makes everyday feel like the few days  I have had where I feel productive, motivated, and confident it will be well worth it.