I really don't want to push anyone to their limits, family or friends. The guilt it makes you feel makes the anxiety even worse. I am not looking for sympathy, just support and understanding. If it was any other long term illness, people wouldn't be as complaining but it's the stigma of it being something 'mental' therefore, something we can control to a certain extent that makes people think that we shouldn't be moaning about our suffering. I certainly don't go to my daughter with any of this and I always feel like I have to put a face on around her but we travel to work together so sometimes she picks up when I'm having a bad start to the day in the car and when I was panicky one morning when I had started the awful Sertraline, she just said "well why have you bothered to come in then" .....a hug would have made all the difference. Anyway, we're all different in our physiology and I'm thankful that she is not like me. I grew up with two very anxious parents but my Mum 'grew out of it' in her sixties but she was also hooked on Valium and a nervous wreck when I was growing up. No-one ever knows if they will ever be unlucky to be floored by something like this at any time as we go through life events.