Anxious *non*-depressive here — what treatments and medications are available and effective?

I get a horribly anxious reaction to the thought of interactions that I need to have as part of the normal course of my job. It’s plain, irrational fear, and I know it’s holding me back. But I’m generally otherwise happy.

Asking directly as I’m struggling to find posts that don’t have depression hand-in-hand (my heart goes out to you all). Thank you and take care everyone.

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Lexapro has worked pretty well for me. 10mg, 1x daily.

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Lexapro for me too. No adverse side effects at all other than a headache the first couple days. Night and day difference - highly highly recommend

Zoloft

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Pretty bad GAD here. I started on gabapentin about a year ago and it was pretty life-changing. It’s off-label for anxiety, but it has produced fantastic results for many. 300mg, 2x/day. Obviously, need to work on mindfulness and dealing with the anxiety when it attacks, but the Rx may help.

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Thanks for this, I hadn’t heard of this one. I do a lot of self-initiated CBT techniques and distress tolerance steps, but still feel a lot of difficulty. Did you pair the gabapentin with anything similar? What was the effect if so?

Lexapro. I used it for depression but I have BPD too and it made me feel no emotions at all. Was amazing on my anxiety. If it helped my depression and didn’t put me into a zombie feeling I would have stayed with it

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Thank you for the insight. What about your work motivation? Any effect there?

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