My mom says the same bullshit to me about not "self-medicating" and I ask her, what the hell do you think prescription drugs are? Oh yeah thats someone you don't know and can't trust at all medicating you and there's a 10% chance that in 2 months you'll have all kinds of awful deformities and diseases or even be dead, for anyone who follows the prescription drug industry's fuck ups. But yeah I've had anxiety/depression cuz it runs in my mom's fam, i started taking meds about a year and a half ago b/c I was having horrid panic attacks for about a month. This was after smoking salvia, so I hate that shit and pretty much get pissed off at the mention of it cuz it caused my nerves to go really BAD till I got on that medicine. But then, I've slowly lowered the doses because that bullshit causes the EXACT things it's supposed to cure after a while! I got off one on my own as of about 3 wks ago, and I'm finding that ever since then I'm less dependent on alcohol. I've really gotten completely sick of drinking, have only had 7 drinks this week (with Mon as the first day of the week) and hope to keep it at a low level like that. As for bud, I'm still smokin bud... still smokin.... out of all the drugs I've ever done, opium, alcohol, salvia, X, weed, coke, etc. I've found that weed is the ONLY one that won't severely fuck with your anxiety or depression. I'm basically at the point in life where I"m saying F all that other BS I just wanna smoke if I'm gonna get messed up at all.