What is the best medicine for anxiety attacks?

Hello there, I can sympathize with you over the dreaded anxiety attack! Yes it can really suck. Yes it feels like it will not end, and yes it can be stopped. Could I ask you first if you are a coffee drinker or if you consume anything with caffeine in it? If so, then you have to do yourself a favour and "stop". Because caffeine is a stimulant, and it can have a crappy effect on someone whom thinks too much as it is. If you do consume caffeine and stop, you will find in a day or two that your anxiety will be reduced if not disappear all together. You may be a coffee addict like me and find it a bummer to quit, but if you drink decaffeinated you will find over time it is basically the same. I hate to advise you to use meds for this problem, but if you must then go to a doctor! There are many products out there for anxiety, but we are all different, so do not be discouraged if the first medication you try fails. Just tell the doctor you want to try something else, and he will respect that and offer another variety of medicine. Are you eating right? Do you have enough foods with vitamins and minerals such as "b" vitamins and potassium? I also think it might be good for you to have natural foods as frequently as you are able. There are so many chemicals in our foods now days that you may actually be effected by some. Many people are fine with some "junk" in foods, but others are harmed by it. Many processed foods have little nutrition too. You should buy Bread with Flax...Dempsters in my opinion has very good Flax bread. You night find after eating this bread that you have more of the right substances for your body to function better. Well I hope I helped you a bit with this limited advise. Keep your chin up. There is a way to fix this, I guarantee it. Just keep trying new things, and stick to whatever works!

There isn't any one "best" drug because they are usually chosen according to their co-morbid disorders. SSRI's however are the first line of therapy. This is a summary of Anxiety Disorder Therapeutics Key Concepts - Antidepressants are first-line agents in the management of chronic generalized anxiety disorder. - BDZ good for acute treatment. - Acute lasts about 12 weeks. Should result in total elimination. - Panic Disorder (PD) patients more likely to experience stimulant like side effects. Give lower doses than Depression patients. - Antidepressants should be tapered. - SSRIs are drug of choice based on tolerability and efficacy for social anxiety disorder as well as comorbid disorders. - May take 8-12 weeks for SSRI response. - Anxiety disorders accompany other psychiatric disorders 90% of the time.

Xanax or Prozac

Emmy <3 Ativan

Short term: Benzodiazepines such as ativan. LongTerm: SSRI's.

marijuana

xanax or some other benzodiazipine. or count to ten.