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Well, it's been a week or 2 since the last update. I'm seeing a psychiatrist. He had me take psychiatric evaluation, 567 general true or false questions. Turns out that the three largest elevations were depression, anxiety/panic, and obsessive tendencies. He also said that he saw some slight elevation in hysteria. Combined with the other issues, that means that my mind does in fact have a very good chance of making up problems that aren't there. Example, feeling like i'm going to faint when i'm not, feeling like i'm getting sick when i'm not, stuff like that. He also wants to get rid of xanax because he said that long term use of xanax tends to promote both hysteria and unusual sleeping patterns. So now the new hope is prozac, because he said that all the ssri's are the same, but the side effects don't affect everyone the same. And his top three pics for my condition, mainly the obsessive tendencies and panic, would be paxil, prozac, or zoloft. Paxil i didn't like, zoloft we aren't sure about, so we both decided on prozac. The plan is to keep side effects to a minimum to cut back on the chances of panics driven by side effects. -wish me well