I take it you're a doctor. Many Anxiety patients are actually Vestibular or sensory processing patients doctors are not catching. There's actually quite a few of us in this forum. You can't give these patients SSRI's and expect good results from it. All the mental health experts and Big Pharmacutical Companies want to talk about are using SSRI's. In doing so a substancial portion of patients are being placed at risk because of it. PTSD is common with thses patients too.

Sensory Processing issues such as Vestibular patients can produce major anxiety attacks and the patient may not even understand it. It took me several years to get answers. It also is connected to the soi called ADD ADHD epidemic another great misdiagnoses of a neurological issue Ritalin will not help. with. C.A.P.D. or Central Auditory Processing Disorders. Where there's CAPD there is also a good chance of Vuisual processing iussues as well. C.A.P.D. behavioral or cognitive symptoms mimic ADD ADHD. Look at the kids shoes Doc :>} See if they are breaking down over the sides and the kid is a we bit lacking in coordination. Now you'll likely notice poor sentence structiuure and bad spelling in my post. That too goes with it. I've lived with the beast over 50 years now.

Well we never quit learning. Differentiating different kinds of anxiety is difficult and all done without the help of any real objective studies so very hard to interpret the literature but I have to fall back on "first do no harm" and for most benzos have greater potential to harm especially when dealing with anxiety. For Restless Leg Syndrome I am less concerned but when you see that "Xanax" or "Ativan" on the med list of a new patient you can just about bet on problems. I have never had a patient object to a suggestion that they change B/P or Cholesterol meds but you can't pry folks of their benzos. I hear you and grant that there are patients who are appropriate for their use but I haven't figured out a way to predict who yet. Thanks for your efforts to help me.

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