I feel for you! I suffered with general anxiety and full blown panic attacks for over 13 yrs. Years I will never get back. Yes, I spent many an hr. in the ER, and lived back then in a small town where everyone knew everyone..and some of the nurses I actually went to school with. How embarrassing..me siotting htere out of control and crying like a baby. Telling anyone that would listen that I was about to die. I was so desperate for someone to just understand this horrible, life altering thing that was going on in my body that I had absolutely NO control over! I cannot beging to tell you how many times I have left full shoping carts in the supermarket, because I was so lightheaded, shaky, sweaty, heart racing, and my eyes would actually dialate. I was a MESS! Listen, if I can overcome this, anyone can. I was put on an seratonin reuptake, SSRI called Luvox generic is Fluvoxamine~( usually prescribed for people with obcessive compulsive disorder, although I don't have the had washing type..just obcessed over my health too much I suppose) i started taking this 6 1/2 yrs. ago. I was such a wreck. I thought there ws no one else inthe world that suffered like i did. I had to plan every single move I made. I had to sit on the back row in church "just in case" I may have to BOLT for the door. I dreaded my daughters school functions so much , but still went, not knowing how I was going to put one foot in front of the other. I took Xanac and stil do. Just not the same dosage. I don't know if anyone is TRULY ever cured, but it is manageable. I haven't had a panic attack ( what a major, major milestone) since I started the Luvox. I do know that my life is so much better now. I do still suffer from extreme PVC's with my heart..that is on another thread on another board! Good luck to you. There really is light at the end of this sad, lonely, hellish nightmare of a tunnel. Mimi :) :wave: