Hi everyone, I’ve been a sufferer of anxiety since a young age and it particularly peaked at age 14, leading me to self medicate with drugs and get prescribed a number of antidepressants up until the age of 18. Due to some errors in transferring me to adult services, I had to stop taking my medications which at the time were sertraline 100mg and quetiapine 25mg at night. I have also tried fluoxetine and mirtazapine in the past with not a whole lot of success.

Finally, after seeing a consultant psychiatrist because of my worsening anxiety, I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder with clinical depression secondary to my GAD. In the next week or two, I will be starting a regime of medications he has prescribed me which include duloxetine 40mg daily, quetiapine 25 mg in the morning and at night, and finally diazepam 10mg for the first four weeks of treatment, reducing by 2mg every week until it stops.

Does anyone have any advice for a newly diagnosed person, and does anyone have any experience or success with the medications I have been prescribed? I’m also on buprenorphine 20mg a day which will go alongside the other medications. I don’t have a lot of faith in SSRI like antidepressants but I’ve heard that I can take a while to find the one that works for you.

Thanks :)