lilian123

I do not have first hand experience with Paxil, but my sister's husband went on it for anxiety. She said he really mellowed out but for some reason he decided to no longer take it and whew-wee, she said he actually went through withdrawal and was quite short tempered. Her son was on Zoloft and he pretty much went a little paranoid coming off it. You might ask why they are all on anit-depressants; well it's because doctors dole it out like Pez candy. I believe in researching any drug before taking it. I still don't understand why doctors cannot differentiate between depression and anxiety; there are drugs for each. However, and here is my point, as you do your own research, see how many times the description indicates that they do not really know how the drug works. "They don't know how it works"?! This is what FDA approval buys us as consumers ?!
A week ago, I would have said give me an anti-anxiety med; gee, in fact I did. My doctor suggested Effexor, an antidpressant, because "anti-anxiety drugs are addictive." What a doofus, so are anti-depressants ! I saw enough negative info about Effexor to say no. I've since decided to try very hard to deal with the anxiety head-on without drugs. I did internet searches on anxiety and I learned that ,as it is, I am anxiety prone as I am somewhat of a perfectionist/control-freak. I don't know if you are a religious person, but I also actually searched for God and Anxiety and found some things that were helpful to my mind. We'll see how it goes.