Hi all, I'm on 20mg of fluoxetine and have been for about 10 years. It's really helped with ocd, mild depression and extreme generalized anxiety, so much so that I live a relatively normal life now.
I have a weird type of agoraphobia where by I have "safe zone" of about 10 miles in a couple of directions so I can still go to work everyday, shopping, nights out etc. but I haven't had a holiday in 15 years. Not even in the UK!
I've been researching meds to take in a crisis should I want to try and push myself like propranolol and the drowsy antihistamines but ideally, I don't want to even get to that point! And I don't really have bodily panic, it's all internal and in my mind.
I just want to be able to drive on the motorway to a nice UK break without having such extreme anxiety that I end up disassociating and being in a state Of depersonalization (trauma reaction to panic) because this can last for weeks.
I suppose my question is an increase in meds going to help or has anyone found any as and when meds that calm the mind thst are not benzodiazepines?