I started taking Paxil around two months ago and it’s…kind of helping? It helps with some forms of anxiety, but not others I feel like.

For example, I’m in college, and I used to be deathly afraid of speaking in front of anyone in class. Like couldn’t breathe or speak properly, voice was hoarse, I would sweat etc. However, I’ve noticed that although I do still get a little nervous, I can speak pretty easily in front of my class now which is a huge relief.

However, I still get super anxious about random, small things. For example, I’m ALWAYS concerned about like how I’m walking or something. Like how you walk without thinking about it, but if I walk by people it’s like I forget how to walk and start to hyper focus on it. Or sometimes I get really anxious about whether or not I’m breathing to loudly and I’m ALWAYS tense, like I can never relax, especially when sitting close to other people.

So, it seems like the Paxil has helped with the “presentation” type of anxiety, but not really the social anxiety part. I also find it very difficult to talk with other people, not as in like a class, but approaching one person and just talking to them without getting anxious.

Do I keep taking Paxil, or try something else that might fix both, but could potentially be worse? I really don’t want to have to take more than one anxiety medication at once.

Of course I’m going to talk to my doctor about this, but I figured I would ask here as well.