hello snow, I have just been diagnosed with GAD this all happened on Dec 8,2006 my whole life changed I had my very first major panic attack,it woke me from a deep sleep, the most terrifiying thing ever I called the ambulance thinking I was a having a heart attack. Anyway I lived in constant fear that a attack was going to happen again it really made me look at my mortality,it's amazing how things can happen so quickly. Saying all that I went to my dr and just started on Zoloft reluctantly, but I also found that by reading books on GAD and meditating or at least trying. Cognitive behaviour therapy that I learned about has really helped, they say we control all our own thoughts and that we can control our own levels of seratonin without meds, it's a behaviour that we have to change on how we think and by being positive in our thinking is the right route to controling our chemical imbalance. I have been really trying to retrain my thoughts I allow my thoughts to come and I look at them and acknowledge them and tell myself it's my anxiety and I then think of something positive and it passes, thank-you for reaffirming my thinking, I know this is the way for me.