Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...


or CBT.
So it doesn't just medicate your anxiety. It gives you the anxiety that it medicates. It's a false medication.
You have to dry out. You have to go through the withdrawals, which are of course appalling anxiety, and come out the other side and you will find you're normal.
Nicotine is another one that does this. I now steer clear of cigarettes and alcohol because they both have this system where they calm you, give you relaxation - but you pay on the other end because you don't LOSE that stress you just DEFER it. and the stress you are deferring is the stress of the withdrawals.
So the whole thing is a big fat giant lie. And when you realise this it's relatively easy to quit and get through the temporary hell of the withdrawals.