Rebecca
I'd say the most important thing is that you've taken control of your own mental health care. I wish your parents could be more on board with it, but if they're like mine and Leed's, they're of the "suck it up" generation. My dad could benefit hugely from talking to someone, but he can easily revert to basically being angry and drinking instead.

As far as the meds go, I guess some people find one that works and stay with it for a long time, but I don't think it's unusual to try a bunch of different ones until you find the right combo. I'm probably more in the latter camp. I don't think it's "a bit much" either.

School's obviously important, but you can't do well if you don't feel good. You can drag yourself to class, like I've done, but I don't want to do that forever. At some point, I want to look forward to it, and not feel nervous about it all the time. The stress isn't going to go away. I guess we just have to figure out how to handle it. The nature of school, and work, is that you're doing stuff you've never done before. If you had, it would be no problem, but then you wouldn't learn anything. Every assignment I have, even just reading something, makes me go, "AAAAHHH! How the hell do I do this?"

I don't know if that sounds familiar to you or not. I don't want to ramble too much. Just hoping you feel better.