Anxiety
"I have a family history of severe mental illness (schizoaffective and bipolar on mom&#039;s side and severe anxiety/panic attacks on dad&#039;s). About 3 years ago I started falling into depression and having severe anxiety attacks. I&#039;m generally a happy and optimistic person, and out of nowhere I&#039;m barely functioning, having some existential crisis, and sitting around at home crying and scared for my husband to leave to even go to the store. On top of that, I started becoming really afraid I would develop psychosis after growing up seeing what my mom dealt with. Decided I wasn&#039;t going to put off dealing with it and saw psych. Lamictal has literally given me my life back without making me feel numb. I still feel like my old, slightly wild self again."