I know all the anxiety drugs, unfortunately. I hated them all and tried to avoid taking them. From early to mid 40s I had a really rough 5-7 years, diagnosed with severe anxiety and terrible bouts with what were called panic attacks. But the thing is, I never FELT anxious. I just had these attacks come on seemingly randomly and then I had to deal with coming down for the next hour or two. The diagnosis was anxiety because everything came up negative. Brain scans, body scans, blood tests, everything, over and over for 5-7 years.

Then my GP decided to order a blood test for my vitamin D level. Normal is 40-ish. My level was 4. He was shocked and prescribed 50000iu of D2 to take daily and literally all my symptoms and random attacks were gone in a week. I learned that D2 is processed into D3 in your body at about 10% of the D2 level, so I just take 5000IU of Costco D3 now once or twice a week. Haven't had a problem for almost 10 years since I started that. My GP is a hero for finding what none of the specialists could and fixing my problem.

Most routine blood testing does NOT include Vitamin D levels, or my problem would have been caught a LOT sooner. So if anyone is diagnosed with anxiety and doesn't feel anxious, maybe have your Vit D levels checked with your next routine blood work.

I had no idea my Vitamin D levels were so low, but I'm indoors most of the time, so in hindsight it makes sense. I also didn't know that super-low Vitamin D could cause the wide range of terrible symptoms I had that looked to Drs like anxiety. Supposedly I was in the range for having a heart attack because I had almost none at all. So bullet dodged. When I go out around town now, I open the sun roof and try to get in a little extra sunshine in addition to the supplements I take. Never want to get back to where I was for that hellish period.