Wow. I can't believe so many people here have had panic attacks. I, myself, have never had one, but I've also never had problems dealing with stressful situations, etc.

I was clinically depressed for about six months, but only realized it in retrospect. Never went to see a psychiatrist or anything of that sort.

In my opinion, panic attacks, depression, or really any sort of "condition" that has to do with your mind doesn't require medication. I could understand mental retardation, or if a part of your brain were damaged or disfigured, but other than that, it's just in your head. We all have the same parts, there is no reason some people should need prescripts while others don't. I got through depression without any help.

You basically have two choices:

A) Address the source of your panic attacks, have some balls and confront whatever it is that is the source and then figure out what issues you need to confront to get your head right.

B) Take the easy out and let a pshrink prescribe you some medications that basically leave you in a perpetual high that will affect your intellectual abilities over time while you become dependant upon it to function.

People take meds to try and fix everything these days. People need to grow some nuts. We got through how many millenia without Prozac? Yeah.

Commence flaming.

hahha @ short hand. I can't wait for some college professor to demean you infront a of a classroom for having such an illogical way of debating. I was saying that our thoughts are webbed out to show logical things in how they are connected. Not that we are all geniuses. We have a way of seeing things going wrong in multiple ways. Its just a burden as it is a reward to be able to think this way.

Its amazing hw people that have never experienced one seem to think theyre some kind of authority on the subject.

You've never had one so why try and talk about something you know nothing about aside from reading about it in this thread.


As for medications ive been taking valium for quite some time, it leaves me in no "state of high" at all, it doesn't alter me in anyway mentally or physically, im as much of an asshole without them as i am with them. Medication is more of a mental thing imo, you know you've taken something that is meant to help with the problem so you think less of it and it won't have as much of an effect on you. It may be "all in your head" as you put it, but untill you experience one you don't know the effect it can have on a person.

I happen to agree on some points, Noctis. I think that any type of mood enhancing medication dulls your mind. I've been clinically depressed for the better part of my adolesense. Depression to me isn't always caused by emotional trauma or anything. Genetics, physical well being and other psychological disorders play a big factor in producing the syntoms that cause depression. Depression isn't always mental. Luckily in my case, the only thing causing my depression was my own environment, I got away from that, met someone who didn't make me feel like shit and I started feeling a lot better. But depression is as bad as any illness and should be medicated if it gets bad.