Social Anxiety Blogs

I am 22 years old. I am so out sync with myself. Medication and depression has just thrown me throw a loop the past few years. Tonight I had an anxiety attack that was so bad. I couldn't calm down. I think it is a side effect of the 3 medications on on. Xanex, zoloft and serequel. I just started serequel, but I think it is the xanex which the new psychatrist said was not good because it was addictive and can damage your brain chemistry. I want off these medications. I am calling my therapist tomorrow to let her know what is going on. I will go to work and hopefully things will be fine. I feel calmer now. I am going to my regular doctor on wednesday and going to tell her how I feel. So either with the psychatrist or my doctor, I am going off this meds slowly. Either way I'm not staying on xanex. I want to try without the medications because I feel like it is the cause of my problems now. I can't live like this. I'd rather go back to how I was when I was 13 b/c at least I was able to live peacefully at night and being in my house. Now I am so on edge all the time, I can't tell the difference b/w side effects and just my regular social anxiety, which is very severe in itself. Antidepressants are supposed to help us, not keep us bad.