I don't plan coming off it but I plan to keep down my dosage more. I do notice I have issues with short term memory and forming new memories on a too high dosage. I usually take 0.75 mg but it is too much and I will strive to be OK on 0.25-0.5 mg. And use the med more PRN compared to how I have the last years.

I also have a long history of anxiety, back to when I was around 6. I think it's then children start to learn they are not safe in the world (if they had decent parents like mine and no accidents or trauma), noticing people get sick, suffer, die, how much unfairness there is out there, how life actually always hangs in the balance.

I was quite sensitive so those things freaked me out, I think I basically freaked myself out just by looking at the world. I don't think any adult guidance could have stopped this, I would just have seen through it if it had been a lie. I wasn't badly treated or anything.