Wow thank you so much for responding Nowuccas. You really seem to know your stuff! I am so grateful that you have provided me with so much research material. I honestly just want to know and practice what is best for my body and seek the correct treatment. I'm beginning to think these long term ssri's are just not worth the risk the more I read about them! My father always told me to not doubt the professionals but I always do. I can't help it. The thing is, I have never had severe depression. My main illnesses are Severe anxiety and panic attacks. Why are these medications used to treat both illnesses? I am not a doctor so I do not understand the correlation between anxiety and depression. I was wondering if there are medications just used to treat the anxiety and the closest thing to that has been benzos which already have so much controversy around them. Although Klonopin does help me sometimes as previously stated and I would never abuse the drug.

I appreciate you taking the time to suggest more natural possible treatments like more vitamin D and multivitamins or supplements. I'm not sure what ubiquinol is but a doctor gave me something called dimethyl glycine or DMG when I was 16 which didn't really help with anxiety at all but I took it for months. Again thank you for such great sources of information I will look through these. I have never been to a clinical psychologist and have never went through congnitive behavioural therapy or exposure therapy. I have never been taught any breathing methods. I have never heard of progressive muscle relaxation but the accupressure sounds interesting. Are these all things a clinical psychologist can do?? I am just so uneducated on these things. The mental health industry hasn't exactly educated me or helped me too much these past years out of the numerous psychiatrists I've been to. I will definitely not be taking the effexor tonight, instead I will talk with my psychiatrist before I possibly endanger myself from discontinuing my lexapro without tapering as well as commiting myself to yet another long term medication that I might not be able to ever get off of. I definitely need to look into a clinical psychologist and I need to educate myself more. Thank you so much