klonopin concerns

[knickfan15]

im a 28 year old male and have been prescribed 1mg of klonopin daily, .5 AM and .5PM.  Currently I am taking .5mg 2-3 times a week typically a couple of hours before i want to go to sleep.  I am currently at a very difficult time in my life, I am unemployed, lost my mother and lost my brother in a very short period of time.  Further I have legal concerns and a bunch of **** goin on.  My anxiety was getting so bad that it started to really interfere with my ability to think clearly, apply to jobs correctly and has caused me to become really deppressed.  I am also seeing a therapist and she does help a lot, everytime i go there i feel ok and i feel ok for a while after but then it goes away and the anxiety comes back.  The mornings are the worst, and the nights are pretty bad too.  I have been diagnosed with GAD.  Im at the point where im considering taking my medication has prescribed daily because I just cant seem to keep my **** together with the insane anxiety without them.  I was thinking about taking them until I find some level of stability with a stable job to put my energy into as opposed to just thinking negative things all day and then once i am stable I would taper off. I know I will probably become dependent on them if i take them daily for an extended period of time, but i think thats the only option because nothing else is working and everything is going to ****.  If you were me what would you do.  Also idk if this matters but i smoked a pack of cigarettes for 8 years straight and managed to quit that addiction but thats because my mothers death from emphyseme really motivated me.  Any thoughts?

[knickfan15]

No nothing long term.  My doc has been considering putting me on something like that but im trying not to mess with that yet but idk i may need to eventually.  Why do you ask?

[AnxiousAndie]

Are you on any long term anti anxiety medication such as zoloft ?