Im suffering with Anxiety

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Hi, Just wanted to share and to see if anyone my have some helpful tips for me. My story is. I have always had slight anxiety but not enough to take over my life, it seemed to have gotten worse when i move to a new city. i started this new job that was stressful, i had to wake up at 4am every morning to get there on time, the boss was not a nice person always taking advantage of me and the work i did. i was perfectly fine and feeling normal until about 6 months after working there. My jaw started to hurt to the point that i could not eat, i went to the doctor and they said i had TMJ from stress so they prescribed be Lorazepam not knowing when i really needed to take it they didnt explain to me how often i should be taking it so i took 1-2 a day and slowly i began to feel depressed and i have never been depressed before so i knew something wasnt right, i became depressed and started to have thoughts of suicide that was the darkest time of my life. i stopped taking that and was so depressed i couldnt eat, i lost 14lbs and still managed to get to work at 4am but would cry all day. I started a antidepressant and was taking 5-htp and st jhons wort at the same time, not knowing that was a BAD idea. After i stopped the antidepressants and 5-htp i had short term memory loss, and and had a few seizures. I now suffer from GAD, OCD, Panic disorder and i have extream fear all the time. I feel less depressed then i was before but now i have all these other problems and i wish i could be my old self like i was before i moved. Does anyone know if Lorazepam has anything to do with this?

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it sounRAB like you had that Serotonin Syndrome. Which i hear can be quit catastrophic. I doubt the lorazepam would have caused any of the depression. I take it, and never have problems like that.

Have you started on any other SSRI's?
 
I have not got on medication yet. I'm a bit scared to try anything just cause the past experience but i am taking 5 htp again, just by itself. I'm taking 100 mg grams but it knocks me out so i'm going to try a 50 mg dose have you tried 5 htp before? i heard good things about it. About the serotonin syndrome will it stay with me for the rest of my life? Thanks!
 
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