There are other drugs since the 90s that are effective for anxiety, but they're either way more subtle and take longer to work than benzos (SSRIs, SNRIs, lavender pills, buspar and derivatives) or don't have the same withdrawal syndrome but come with a much worse package of side effects (quetiapine and other antipsychotics).
I have had clinically significant anxiety since I was a young child, and in the end, treating other mental illnesses effectively (I developed bipolar 1 in my late teens) and exercising very regularly seems to pull my baseline level of neuroticism down to within the normal range. If I get good cardio in, usually an outdoor run, 3 days a week, I feel normal.
I have had clinically significant anxiety since I was a young child, and in the end, treating other mental illnesses effectively (I developed bipolar 1 in my late teens) and exercising very regularly seems to pull my baseline level of neuroticism down to within the normal range. If I get good cardio in, usually an outdoor run, 3 days a week, I feel normal.