I have panic disorder, severe depression, and generalized and social anxiety disorder. I have been on Xanax for four years, antidepressants don’t really help me, and I take Gabapentin to sleep. Dependent on it. Before I get pregnant I want to be off all of this but I have read that anxiety can negatively affect a growing fetus. I am terrified. My anxiety is very hard to get under control without medication. When I was unmedicated I had panic attacks CONSTANTLY.

Has anyone here taken ANY meds while pregnant? What was your personal experience with that and mental illness during pregnancy?

Thank you.