I have a long history of anxiety and depression. My original diagnosis was acute and chronic anxiety with hyperventilation. Over the years not much has changed. I started out on Librium, then Valium, and now Lorazepam. It started way back in school in the fifties and sixties. I was in bad shape then and also had to be hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. In the seventies I was in Germany where I was started on lorazepam 2.5mg x 3 times a day. That was way too much so I went back to Valium. When I returned home after living in Germany for ten years I was put back on lorazepam 1mg x 3 a day. I am comfortable with that but now my most doctor wants to wean me off of this and I'm a bit apprehensive as I feel like I will be returning to the dark ages. I also had a severe reaction to an antidepressant that led me to a full course of ECTs. I am now 77and do not feel like going back to my earlier life.
Sorry this is so long but this is just the highlights, or maybe the lowlights? Thank You.