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by coffee_beqn 1439 days ago
My anxiety was “manageable” for most of my life but this year it boiled over. I would get something like panic attacks multiple times a day with a racing heart and was constantly distracted by catastrophic thinking the whole day so I knew I couldn’t manage basic life by myself anymore. I’ve been quite happy with SSRIs but I wouldn’t mind going off them once my life and the world settles down.

Basically I felt like I didn’t have the mental energy to fight with just active methods like meditation and needed some passive baseline help from medication