Make that 17 years - and I can answer with a YES, ALL DAY, EVERYDAY ! During the last 2 years of that 17 year stint with anxiety/panic, I was on a med that would give me about 4 good hours a day........and I thought that was wonderful ! Then I got on the right med, with the right therapy, and it has been gone for 15 years. I had to work HARD in the therapy tho, a 6 weeks stay in a psych hospital........2 different therapists each twice a day, group sessions, and to overcome the agoraphobia, I had to leave the SAFETY of the psych unit on outings several times a week, until I got to the point I was beggin TO go out, not beggin NOT to go out. Did I mention it was HARD WORK ? Even after the new med started working, I was not CURED. It took away the constant 24/7 anxiety/panic, but I had built up 17 years of STINKIN THINKIN, I had to retrain my brain to think rationally. I read great books, became affliliated with a great Support Network called ABIL (Agoraphobics Building Independent Lives), and each day I got better. Then I might have a day of little or no progress, or even a day where I took a step back, but that did not stop me from working HARD. I wanted a life........and I got it !

I still take medication - and have explained about it somewhere in the Drug section. I took a special test called a "sodium lactate infusion" that showed beyond a shadow of a doubt I would need medication for the rest of my life. (You can read about this test in a book called "Panic Disorder:What you Don't Know May Kill You" by Dr. William D. Kernodle. .......he was the psychiatrist I saw who got me on the right meds , and the therapists who worked with me, were his employees). And I dont CARE if I have to take medication every day of my life - because like a diabetic, I cannot function without my medication.