I have been seeing this therapist for SIX YEARS. During that time, I have been through some enormous personal stress (marital problems, financial setbacks, drug addicted stepkids living in my home, etc.). We are still undergoing some financial issues related to trying to get the stepkids some help.

I am only taking .5 mg of klonopin to control the anxiety. It helps some, but I don't want to up the dose too much. I am actually thinking about going back on Effexor even though it was hell to get off of it because things were better when I was taking it.

I have a lot of physical symptoms as a part of the anxiety (stomach trouble, chronic pain, etc.) and I find this type of therapy useless in preventing this from happening. It's like they are triggered by a part of my brain that is more primitive than the part that controls rational thought.