So, I recently had to get a script for painkillers for an unrelated injury. For a little back story, I have suffered anxiety my entire life but have never been able to get a prescription for Xanax or Klonopin because obviously it is a highly addictive and potentially dangerous drug to put someone on. I also have ADHD and OCD which only furthers my already constant anxiety. I would say I have panic attacks at least a couple times a month, sometimes more. However, after getting this script for pain killers, I’ve come to realize just how well something like Xanax would help to improve my life.

I have been getting compliments left and right at my job for how well I have been doing. It has been slowing my mind down to where I can actually finish things I need to finish without jumping around due to my ADHD. My obsessive thoughts have decreased significantly. I don’t have a knot in my stomach 24/7 like usual. I am able to converse with people much more easily. I just overall feel like a normal operating human and I am in love with this feeling. I obviously don’t want to become addicted to anything but I have yet to try a medication that helps me as much as Xanax or klonopin has. And yes, I know those and painkillers are not the same but they hall have that calming effect for me.

Sadly I have to go to our community health center due to having no health insurance so the chances of getting prescribed something similar is next to none as they are very suspicious of everyone’s intentions. Is there any other medications that can help like this that I could ask about? I am currently on Remeron and it has done nothing for me. I am just an average person, a mom of a little one and I have a good job. I don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t take drugs. Yet I keep getting looked at like an addict when I suggest this might be beneficial.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!