Per the title.

I've know that I have a clinical anxiety problem for years.

In fact, I believe that I was first prescribed an SSRI five freaking years ago.

Unfortunately I was irrationally terrified of psychiatric mediation. Especially SSRIs. I'm not exactly sure why. The stuff I read about withdrawals. Brain zaps. Changing my brain. It all sounded scary. 

On no less than two occasions I believe I filled my family doctor's script only to throw the pills in the bin.

It took me - no exaggeration - five years of procrastination to finally try an SSRI. In the meantime, I tried absolutely everything to help my anxiety. Therapy, exercise, herbal medicine, yoga, meditation. You named it, I tried it. It all helped a little. But none really put enough of a dent in it that it stopped impairing my day to day life.

So that's where I am now. I'm a guy in his mid 30s. I think I've probably been "clinically" anxious since my mid teens (at least). And I waited almost 2 decades before finally working up the courage to let a frigging antidepressant pass my lips.

Any other latecomers out there?