What is the best antidepressant for anxiety and panic?

people are mixing up antidepressants with tranquillisers  Ativan, Xanax, valium are all benzos, ie tranquillizers. They help anxiety for some. THEY DO NOT HELP DEPRESSION. THEY ARE NOT ANTIDEPRRESSANTS. IN FACT THEY WILL OVERTIME INCREASE DEPRESSION.

Daxid sertaline is a good antidepressant. It may be only started after a shorterm treatment with Lonazep and franxit. These are given for mild to moderate anxiety disorders.

Marijuana! try it!

Xanax is about the worst drug for anxiety. It has an extremely short half life which means the effect wears off very quickly. It is for this reason that it is HIGHLY addictive. Working in the field of mental health I have seen many a patient suffer needlessly trying to come off this horrible drug.

i have suffered from depression all my life it has gotten so bad I cant seem to work outside the home and we need the finaces in the worst way my nerves are shot I am taking viibray and have taken all the ones u have talked about i feel worthless and a burden to my husband .I am at the breaking point. camilla

Leah26, I can really symppthise and understand your Panic and Anxiety Attacks. I have suffered with them for about 8 years now. I was mugged and robbed and have never been the same. I have totally become a recluse and do not leave my home. I have missed so many doctor appoiontments that I have had several quit seeing me. And I have been on several different meds to try and help but have yet to find anything (anit-depressent or anxiety meds) that help. And 6 months ago I suffered a severe injury to my right arm, wrist and hand which on excerbated my situation. And along with this I have CFS/FM. Most meds seem to make my FM pain worse. My physician put me on Prozac and Klonopin a month ago and after two weeks, I thought I was dying. I became so nervous, shaking, weak, headaches, and cold sweats, and severe weakness, as well as, the panic and anxiety actually got much worse. . Two weeks after I began this new regime, I told my doctor and he wanted to increase the meds and give it a chance to work. But, I have had the same reaction with predninsone, the doctor thought I have not given it enough time to get into my system. But, I was so ill. anxiious, could not sleep, think or even read, that I knew I coudl not contiune. So, I stopped the Prozac and had withdrawal symptoms. Finally this week my doctor realized I needed to try something else. So, I just started, taking Buspar and Xanax. But, of course it has not had time to work and I do not know how I will respond. I have taken Atavin but it stopped working and I am back on Xanax which I have taken before. It is a little help but does not last long in your system and I cannot take 4 a day as prescribed. I have such a low tolerance to almost all mediciations these last few years and am praying my new meds will provide some relief soon. No one understands just how debilitating anxiety and panic attacks can be and now I am experience severe depresiion, which was under control with Viibrid until I was taken off and put on Prozac. So, I pray with time the new meds will work. I am so weak and depressed in addition to the anxiety. I am housebound and have not driven in 8 years. I am feeling pretty helpless at the moment but know know it will subside once the medication takes affect. My Specialist in Charlotte, NC at the Hunter-Hopkins Center recommended Paxil but my doctor thought Buspar was a better choice. I just hope it works. It is not easy trying to get anything to work and changing is so hard on my dysfunctional immune system. I wish I did not have to take anything but I would be in the hospital without any medication. I am also guilty of not taking the prescribed amount and think I can cut back so I will not become addicted. But, I am sure I have not helped myself by doing this. So, I am trying to adjust to my new regime and pray it will help. I am not sleeping well at night and cannot sleep during the day either since my my races all the the time. It is difficult for me to relax since I had this recent problem with the side efffects from the change of meds. I took Prozac for many years and it helped but cannot take now with the anxiety and panic attacks since it only makes me more nervous. I have never heard of the medication you are taking but I pray it will work for you and please let me know if it does. Treating the anxiety is much more difficult than just depression..And I have ever symptom you mentioned and more. I feel like it cannot get worse and I am praying for help so I can get back out and function in the real world. I have made myself a prisoner in my home and created an unhealthy comfort zone but do not know how to overcome this nightmare life I am experiencing. I just beleive their must be a combination of medicine that will work if I can just survive to find it. I will be praying for you and good results as I understand just how severe our illness is and others think we should just be able to "Snap Out of It' but we know we woudl have if we could. So hang in there and keep getting out so you do not end up like me. I am totally dysfunction right now and it is freightening.

LOVE this ... wish and pray to feel the words you wrote....at some point...

I had anxiety and panic attacks , I never used medication what I did do was see a physcologist every week to talk about my past and also my attacks I was also recommened to a naturopath , because anxiety can come from your head but it can also come from your physical body , so I had a Vega test at the naturopath , which involves your hormones,your brain /thoughts and your organ function and how that effects you emotionally , it is amazing what they can tell you about yourself . I was given homeopath medicines to help my anxiety and change myself , it worked I don't have anxiety anymore and now I look back I'm so glad I tried this option or I would never know how my life could change and be in a new direction in life

Cipralex is great but I found that taking vitamins also helps B complex, vitamin D, Omega 3,  and I use L- Theanine            

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BS. It is a chemical imbalance and has nothing to do with feelings. Let me ask if you have ever experienced depression or a panic attack.

Anxiety is not good for health. It can affect on mental health. Over use of Xanas is also not good for health. People having this type of problem must take treatment from any good rehab center.

Psychologist charges close to $200 a hour plus you have to goto months sometimes years for it to work. Walmart and Target have antideprants on there $4 drug list. What good does therapy do if you can't afford it? Most people with mental illness don't have health insurance or can't can't afford therapy. However they could afford $4 a month for antidepresants. A family Dr charges around $100 a visit. Two visits a year plus a year supply of meds. $248 a year!

WTF..and your point is? Because you are just all over the f*****g page

You nailed it..wish it were legal EVERYWHERE

I understand completely! I also suffer from severe anxiety and I have anxiety about taking antidepressants! Anyway I finally went on Celexa which helped me so much! After a year or so of taking 20 milligrams I slowly weaned myself off with no problems except that 6 months after being celexa free, my anxiety was back full force and I am now slowly starting it once again beginning with 5 miligrams. I wish you well!