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I want to thank you for taking time to read this. I just want to share my experience and I hope it helps someone and gives hope. I started taking anti-anxiety meds when I was 19. The day I started taking it was the worst day off my life and didn't even know it. It started off with 1 prozac a day. I was fine for a while but then I noticed it wasn't quite working as good as it did so my dr. increased my dosage. The next 14 years of my life were a nightmare. I increasing became totally out of control. I was diagnosed as bipolar, anxiety disorder, ptsd, ocd. I attemped to commit suicide twice and was hospitalized so many times I can't even remember. These are a few of the drugs I was on prozac, lithium, abilify, paxil, wellbutrin, topomax, risperdal, zoloft, effexor, clonapan, xanax...the list goes on and on. I had tried many times to get off but I would end up in the hospital. It had gotten to the point that I was on effexor, abilify, risperdal and 4 xanax bars a day. I was taking the whole pharmacy but it wasn't controlling the thoughts that would never ever ever end. I started drinking with all these meds. I felt like it was the only thing I could do to get just a glimpes of peace. When I drank and took these meds I would just do totally ungodly things. I had gone for 115lbs. to 240lbs. My mother a total sold out believer since she was 12 years old I think had even given up. I meet a lady named Mary and she told me that I didn't
have a mental problem I had a spirital problem. She started praying for me. I'm going to continue but I think I'm out of room.