Seroquel has been wonderful WONDERFUL for my anxiety, plus I sleep every night. I'm on 300 mg, and as they're getting you up to the right dose, the side effects are awful, but they DO get better in a couple of weeks. It does cause immence weight gain, but not only can I cope, I can actually function. When my doc took me off the ativan after I'd been on the S for a month, I paniced. Whatever was I going to do in a crowd? But my first time out of the house it was like Fate was showing me just what I could deal with. I faced, and FUNCTIONED in two different situations that day that would have had me curled up in a ball in bed for weeks on the ativan.