I just wanted to share in case anyone can relate. When I was 16 I started getting panic attacks. They got me on lorazepam, birth control, Zoloft, vitamins, all kinds of different things. I went to therapy.

I kept telling everyone around me that I didn’t really feel anxious, I was just experiencing anxious symptoms. When I was somewhere loud or bright or when I was driving I felt so over stimulated I’d get sweaty hands and feel dizzy. 

I also happened to have high blood pressure. 

My doctor got me on propanolol recently and it was like the symptoms just stopped. I feel like the last decade my entire body has been on edge and now my fight or flight / nervous system is just… calm. 

I drove on the highway this week for the first time in years and was able to listen to music and sip some water and comfortably look around me without feeling disassociation. 

Could it have been this simple all along? Am I still living in a placebo haze??? Either way… if this keeps up it opens a whole new world for me of not being afraid to have new experiences.