I just spoke with a behavioral health consultant for the first time about my anxiety she asked me questions and came to the conclusion I have just bad anxiety.

She said anxiety and depression but ultimately said only anxiety because I was getting depression symptoms about how bad my anxiety was getting. She told me to take an SSRI for 6 months and gave me time to think about it and make a decision (this is after I told her I tried zoloft one time and it messed me up bad).

So my question here is, what SSRI should I look for? I have GAD, and sometimes panic attacks but not really as much as just constant anxious feeling and stomach sinking feeling, racing intrusive thoughts and just general being scared of something.

I took zoloft 1 time and immediately had panic attacks and shaking and super scared and took a few days to die down.

Should I have stuck with zoloft or is there another type of SSRI I should look into that possibly has less scary side effects ( scary to me is like depression and suicidal thoughts).