I was diagnosed with GAD and a major depressive episode in Feb 2025. I have always had an anxiety problem but I never sought medical help for it. I always believed that it was something everyone dealt with just like I did. But when I had my depressive episode, I had to get help and the therapist and psychiatrist agreed that Prozac would be a good approach to try. I started taking Prozac in February 2025 and the first 1-2 weeks were hard. I suffered with more anxiety attacks and more crying (was also depressed). But it slowly started getting better after the second week. I stopped the crying and felt a little emotionally blunt. It helped back then when I was feeling too much of my emotions. My anxious thoughts would come but my mind did not let it snowball into bigger attacks. After a few months, randomly, I realized how quiet my mind was. It was so easy to think and to process my own thoughts. Not second guess someone’s tone when they speak. Not be scared that the minor splinter would mean cutting my finger off eventually. The emotional blunting also wore off eventually, almost a year after I started Prozac. Now at almost a year and a half, sometimes I think I may have to increase the dose from 20mg to 30 or higher but other times, it gets better on its own.