Interesting article!

I have suffered some sort of phobia for years. I've had several therapies and medications. At a moment the doctor prescribed me Zoloft (never been on Prozac) but that turned out bad on me (funny to see that the results of the tests were also not so good!). After that, I got the less "heavier" medicine Seroxat.

Like the article says: the best treatment is a combination of medicines and therapy. That worked great for me. I don't think I could have managed it without the medication because it is not all psychological. Every person produces a certain substance in his brain to get calmer when there is much adrenaline in your body. My brain cannot produce enough of that substance, so I'm taking pills to fill that up. For example: when you are very nervous, that substance makes sure that you can handle the situation without driving crazy. It handles the nerves. But when you don't produce enough of the substance, your nerves are going on and on and on and on and that can cause panics and fears etc. It's difficult to explain in English, but I think you get the point.

Jim, you talked about mood swings when people take medications like this. Well I can tell you, that I've never had any mood swing at all (at least not because of the medication). I think every person reacts in a different way. Lots of people are very surprised when they hear that I take medication and that I had therapy etc. They didn't notice anything different about me. And my karma is doing very well