I've been on tranqulizers before and pefer not to be on them.

The reason why my anxiety is so high right now isn't just because of the food anxiety i've been getting quite often but because my current medication that i'm on just stopped working for me, tried to up the dose to see if that helped, it didn't... so time to ween myself off of it and get onto Effexor. But since i've been on meds that hasn't helped me for about 3 or 4 weeks now I haven't been doing so well.

I am also can be really senstive to side effects etc, and so that's what I'm experiencing now in a sense. This morning was the first morning I woke up feeling ok since I went down to 30mg of remeron, took 3 or 4 days though..so now dropping down to 15mg, and i'm not too happy about that because now I just assume i'm going to feel like crap tomorrow.

It's just really frustrating because sometimes now the anxiety is too much but i'm handling it as best I can with reading my don't panic book again, relaxation/abdominal breathing and self talk.. and if I am having a terrible time I can call my psychiatrist.

It's off and on and that's fine. Not so much really panicky, but I do get symptoms daily, but I did anyways, thats GAD for ya... but at least I was still able to go out and do whatever I wanted, but now since I've been feeling like this I haven't wanted to go out and do anything...