But CLKD, what you don't seem to understand is that if, like me, you have acute anxiety for no reason every single morning, and someone offers you a drug that can relieve it temporarily, in that moment you just want it to go away so you take it. What you don't realise is that gradually it takes more and more of the same drug to make it go away (and that's not about thought, it's a physical fact, your body develops tolerance). Before you know it you're dependent, because if you try to come off it you get withdrawal symptoms which can be as bad as the original problem. I think you're talking about a different kind of anxiety. If I knew that, for instance, getting on a plane was going to give me anxiety then yes, I'd take the drug as a one-off to help with an occasional problem. I'm talking about an every single day problem - you try taking lorazepam for that and you'll be addicted before you know it. And medical staff are very very wary of prescribing benzos these days for this kind of problem, for precisely that reason.
