Avoid Errors With Anxiety Meds

April 2024

About 1 in 13 adults in the US will be diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder in their lifetime...and most will need meds.

SSRIs (escitalopram, etc) or SNRIs (duloxetine, etc) will often be used first for anxiety...since they have the best evidence. Plus they can do “double duty” if the patient also has depression.

But it can take about 2 to 4 weeks to start seeing some benefit...and up to 12 weeks for max effects.

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