[Drew]

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.