When I was in high school and had panic disorder, I took a med called Zoloft to help with the panic attacks. I have had people tell me I can't be on the med forever, and that I should deal with it without the meds, etc. Yet when I tried to go off them, and I had a panic attack as the result, they would say things like "How could you let this happen again?" Clearly they were not understanding the role of my medication. I just put it off as them being ignorant and have let it go now.