Long time sufferer - first time talker

[SlowShow]

I was diagnosed with GAD and Social Anxiety when I was around 12 I'd say (I'm just about 25 now).

When I was first diagnosed, my father didn't want me on medication so we tried the strictly therapy route, which didn't improve anything for me.  Maybe a year later, I was started on Prozac (10mg I believe).

Honestly, the next couple of years are a bit hazy, but every so many years, I'd start getting panic/anxiety attacks and my therapist would up my dose 10 mg's and I'd be fine for a while.

My anxiety has always stemmed greatly from (this a term I just learned from this forum) "Emetophobia."  Movie theatres, classrooms, driving, and women are the major causes.  

I've always kept my panic/anxiety (is there a difference?) pretty secret, as usually people have no idea it's happening; but if I let them go out of control, I always end up vomiting.

For about the last 2 years, I've been just about attack-free, until one night last year, and then after that, I've just had days of feeling dread about having another one in public, or going on a date, or going somewhere unfamiliar.  My psychiatrist bumped me up to 40mg (prozac) and I've been on that for about 2 months and haven't seen much change.

Unfortunately, there's like a month and a half waiting list to see her, so I'm kinda at a dead end.  I used to just accept my anxiety as an inevitability, but I shouldn't spend a whole date/night wondering if I'll come out without embarrassing myself or scaring a girl off.  I've discovered that talking about my condition when an attack sets in makes me a bit more comfortable.

I don't really have a question I guess, I just felt like sharing my story and seeing if there's any suggestions/comments out there to help me deal with my anxiety & attacks atop of the medicine I take.  

Thanks

[Ternak]

Ironic isn't it? You probably need to try a different medication, more geared for anxiety than depression. Xanax, klonopin, paxil. But be careful, a lot of anxiety medications are extremely addictive because of the immediate effect the drug gives you.

[SlowShow]

To add: I tour North America as a guitarist for the better part of each year, and I find it amusing/irritating that I can play and be in front of upwards of 500 people per show and be fine, but I can't take a girl to dinner.