Originally Posted by
EJP 
. I bought a book called When Panic Attacks that helped calm me down. Its a great primer on cognitive behavior therapy.
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This is a great book. I've read it and recommended it here numerous times. I take antidepressants which level the playing field for me, but I still have to deal with the anxiety so I have depended on this book, and 'From Panic to Power' by Lucinda Bassett.
I take a tricyclic antidepressant after trying two ssri's. I had nasty side-effects with the ssri's. The tricyclic causes me no side effects, absolute no temptation to abuse. The only thing I have found is that when I had to go off it for a few weeks because of dental surgery, I slowly started slipping into the dark hole again.