any antidepressants out on the market are also used for controling anxiety too because they work on both depression and anxiety. for example paxil is an antidepressant but also works on anxiety. so does the antidepressants prozac, welbutrin and many others.

Any and all medications can become adicting. Heck even soda, chocolate, potatoes, you name it no matter what it isin this world people can and do form an adiction on it. I have an adiction to music. I need music in order to go to sleep at night, to calm myself when in panic and so on. I started to form an adiction to over the counter allergy medication, years ago I was adicted to Dexitrim diet aid you buy in a store. A friend of mine is adicted to slim fast shakes.

An adiction is just something that a person MUST have in order to function.

I know many people who no ifs ands or buts MUST have their morning coffee or their day is in ruins, Many people with OCD have all kinds of adictions from having to wash their hands so many times or have their room look a certain way. Adictions are everywhere about everything. Not just medications, drugs and alcohol.

As for medication adiction - the key to NOT forming an adiction is using them at the supervision of the prescribing doctor and being 100% honest about how the medication is working, side effects and so on with the prescribing physician.