Today I went to Student Health to pick up a prescription of Klonopin for anxiety. I had a death in the family recently and I have to return to the funeral home that my mother's service was in. Needless to say, I'm a wreck. This has nothing to do with my question though.

The doctor told me that she'd been considering putting me on long term medication for anxiety because of my stress. Now, I am the first to confess that I am a stress case. Little things will stress me out to no end. I find it to be more of a control issue than anxiety, though. If things are out of my control, I stress and stress and stress until finally I accept that it's out of my control or I somehow manage to get control of it. An example of this is my test anxiety (I'm a college student). The first test I always fail because I stress out about not knowing what will be on it - and I shut down and don't study. However, I'm not so severely stressed that I can't function day by day.

Anyway, I was wondering if going on long term medication sounds like a good idea?