It has been a long time since I looked at this site and read what everyone has remarked about drugs. I took Prozac for about 15 years and the Dr. took me off of it gradually as he said it was time. I didn't take Prozac for years after that and tried didn't meds to keep my anxiety level down. I was on Xanax for a while and it really helped me. I believe it was in my head though, that if I had Xanax in my purse, then I would be all right. It worked. The only problem was I was getting addicted to it and would panic if I had one or two pills left. I wasn't on any med for a while and then I started again with the panic attacks. I did end up in a hospital in the Psychiatric ward as I went totally crazy and wanted to do all kinds of things to end my life. It was such a terrible time for me as I felt I didn't belong with these weird people. I did get to feel differently about them though. Anyway, I was put back on Prozac. That was some time ago. For the past four months, I have slowly been getting myself off the Prozac and I succeeded in doing this. Prozac free for about two weeks and bang there was the anxiety coming back. So I am back on 40 mg. a day and I am feeling pretty good. I really do believe now that I will be taking Prozac for the rest of my life. The anxiety and panic attacks are so terrible, aren't they? I too have been diagnosed with General Anxiety Disease.