Hi everyone, hope you're well. I've been having a rough go the last couple months w terrible anxiety and panic attacks. I've been on medicine a few years now. Most recently taking lexapro at 5 mg, buspirone at 10mg. The buspirone has only been a few weeks not long enough to form an opinion on how it effects me. So the last week I've reached a breaking point. If I could be hospitalized I'd be all for it. I just don't feel safe within my own body. I get these episodes where I'm suddenly in a state of thick impending doom, can't think straight, faint feeling. I usually  think I will pass out. Nearly every day there is some degree of this, and at least 4 days the episodes will become unbearable.  I'm in therapy and have been over a year. Mostly every other week yet with this new development I've been pushing to go every week. I brought up wanting to be hospitalized to my psychologist yet she still thinks this is just panic attacks, anxiety. 
I also at this point reached out to my prescriber to ask for a benzo. They are reluctant to provide them for concern over addiction,  but I spoke with him and he agreed on low dose of clonopin as needed for panic (.25, can go up as high as .5 if severe). I also applied to the Institute of Living here in Hartford, Connecticut to participate in their intensive outpatient therapy for panic disorder as well as their iop for ocd. When I spoke to the prescriber (aprn) he suggested that the best thing to do is find an appropriate SSRI, since lexapro hasn't helped. He prescribed me Prozac which I've never been on before. I'm doing everything I can to get better, making all my appointments,  doing what they say,  exercising,  eating healthy, trying to relax as necessary etc... yet I feel nearly hopeless,  I'm so worried that it is something medical,  when I get in these states (the most severe), they seem to happen out of nowhere and it seems like I'm losing consciousness.  Have any of you gotten better from this type of issue? Anyone with experience with Prozac? I'm supposed to start it today. Thank you for taking the time to read my long post, I don't really have friends who understand this, or family for that matter. I appreciate all input. 🙂