Best Anxiety Medications (2023): Top Anxiolytic Drugs (Efficacy & Tolerability)

As of 2019, approximately 301 million people globally were living with an anxiety disorder (including 58 million pediatrics) – making them the most common mental health problem. (R) Anxiety disorders are thought to be caused by a combination of environmental variables (social, activity level, diet, stressors, medication/substance use, trauma, etc.) interacting with genetic predisposition (low …

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Alprazolam (Xanax) & Cognitive Impairment: Brain Fog & Zombification

For the past 1.5 years, I’ve been struggling with intermittent bouts of sleep-maintenance insomnia (i.e. middle insomnia) and terminal insomnia (i.e. early morning awakening insomnia). This causes me to wake up ~2-4 hours before my desired wake time and have difficulty falling back asleep despite feeling mentally and physically tired. It all began ~1-2 months …

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