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Severe anxiety and panic attacks

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Dec 3, 2025 | Replies (45)

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@daveshaw Pleasantly surprised by the likes. Anxiety, depression and insomnia can make your life miserable. If the right combination of drugs can fix that why do people fight it so hard.
For many depression and anxiety can be genetic much like arthritis and other diseases.
Life is too short to fight it. Be grateful that modern science has come so far and the stigma of mental health is finally lifting.
For anyone looking for a good movie to see this Thanksgiving weekend I highly recommend “Road to Nowhere “ which covers a time in Bruce Springsteen’s life when he fought crippling depression and anxiety. He got help and became one of the most iconic singers of our time.
Simone Biles is another example of someone that overcame her anxiety to become the perhaps the greatest gymnast in the history of the sport.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on this site.

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I have a very odd story. I have a sister-in-law who took clonazepam for 18 years. Her anxiety stopped just last year (long spiritual story) and she just stopped taking it cold turkey. No withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. Although she is still on other meds for bipolar so maybe that’s what she was able to stop with no bad consequences. Very strange.