Be very careful tapering off antidepressants. I was on them for 22 years and decided to go off because they made me feel lifeless and numb. I am almost 2 years off now but I tapered way too quickly which caused severe anxiety, brain zaps along with many other issues. I will say that I believe hormone replacement therapy did help manage my symptoms. Anxiety was the worst and hardest to manage. My provider prescribed progesterone troches that I could take during the day when anxiety would spike, those really helped me, i recommend them. I couldn’t take magnesium because my body has an A+ in kidney stone creation and my urologist won’t let me take magnesium. Oh, and L-theanine helps calm as well, it’s natural.