Is it possible to effectively treat anxiety or another mental illness with meds?

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1. cahz h says:

   March 2, 2010 at 9:23 pm

   clonazopam or klonapin saved my life. after major open heart surgery they put me on xanax to keep the ventricular tachychardia from killing me. I was in 24/7 panic mode. The xanax was too strong so when another group of cardiologists tried to wean me off of it (they assured me it would be alright because she was going to wean me off over a three month period) thirty hours after i took the last little tiny piece of zanax i died- for real- my cardiologist in lancaster ,california spent a long time bringing me back- and they put enough electricity through me to wake up frankenstein ( it left a big round burn mark on my chest and on my back) i was not supposed to live through the night. and spent two months in 2 hospitals. they had to put in an AICD to control my heart and put me back on xanax for life, but if i didn’t have one every six hours i was sicker than an old heroin addict. finally a psychiatrist told me that they had found that you could go straight from zanax to klonopin with no side effects. i jumped on that. and the klonopin stays in your system for a long time- it has a half life of 6 weeks. but eventually if they cut you off of it you get the panic back and get real sick. so my psych. wrote that they could never take my klonopin away from me again. anxiety is bad enough, but to have 24/7 panic attack is living hell. I am also a borderline personality- the psychs don’t have any idea what to expect from us (borderline personality) we could go in any direction- they have no understanding of us so they are most afraid of treating borderline personalities. Good-luck. it’s a tough life having mental disorders- people like to say we are crazy. no weare not crazy, just really messed up.
2. Reoriented says:

   March 2, 2010 at 9:23 pm

   Big improvement, but not elimination. Depression, not anxiety.