Hi everyone! I'm brand new to this website and am just looking to start some discussion on a few questions I have had about anxiety medications in general. Due mainly to the adjustment to college in the past two years I have experienced some pretty intense chronic stress. As a result I have experienced pretty severe sleeplessness and anxiety (General and social) and depression. I have been on paxil now for a couple months and at my last doctor's appt my doc added on Busperone in addition to paxil.
This honestly would probably help me a lot but I decided not to start taking it. I am skeptical about starting this specific anti anxiety med because I worry it might change me as a person. It's hard to describe and I'm probably worrying a bit too much but the best way to describe it is that I don't want it to emotionally "numb" me or anything like that so that I'm just walking through life like almost sedated or brainwashed. I dont know. I have heard these worries from other people as well but wanted to see if I could get some more opinions.
Thanks for readin and let me know what you think!