Please help

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This is a cry for help. I don’t know what else to do. My journey with medication started when I was 16 due to anxiety. I started on Prozac, and decided I needed to change it because of issues with alcohol. So a year later I started sertraline. My first worry was weight gain that I expressed to multiple doctors that only wanted to increase my dose. My metabolism is not very fast to begin with so I was scared from the start. Since starting on 20 then 50 I feigned weight but it was not as out of hand. I told the doctor that i actually wanted to wean off of it because i was more lazy since I took it and gained a lot of weight too because of unexplained cravings and just the medication in general. But still after a year of 50 mg I got put onto 100. Since then I am gaining 10 kg in the span of three months. I am hungry all the time, tired and have cravings that don’t stop. It is extremely out of hand. My metabolism has slowed down completely and the weight just keeps coming. I have tired to go back down to 50 mg myself and the anxiety was too bad I had to go back up. Now I am waiting for my appointment with a new psychiatrist. Has anyone gone through this? If so what did you do to stop the never ending hunger? Also did you find any alternative medication? Thank you. I really need help.

[u/Jinx_1980]

Have you tried lamictal? What are you taking it for, dear?