My fiance has been getting anxiety attacks for years, but up until recently, they didn’t happen very often and generally weren’t very severe. For the past year or so, however, they’ve gotten much more frequent and MUCH worse. Now he has a severe panic attack just about once a week or so, and sometimes they’re so bad that he has to call out of work because it takes hours for him to calm himself down.
He is somewhat mistrustful of doctors, which is why he hasn’t ever seen a doctor about his anxiety, but recently he has realized that he needs to see a doctor in order to obtain treatment for his anxiety problem. He has tried breathing exercises, which help a little bit when he’s having a panic attack, but it still usually takes him hours to calm down and “recover” from a panic attack. We both agree that he needs to get on some kind of anxiety medication in order to treat his disorder, as his anxiety is really affecting his life and impairing his ability to go to work regularly. He’s scared of getting on Xanex, though, because he doesn’t want to get addicted to anything (and Xanex is highly addictive).
So what type of anxiety medication do you think he should get on?
And also, could he get a prescription for it through a regular M.D., or are these types of prescriptions only prescribed by psychiatrists? He has health insurance through his job, so he was just going to make an appointment with a local doctor.
I took Xanax for years and I didnt become addicted to it I actually stopped using it become I dont get the anxiety attacks anymore.
