"i was in the e.r. for my usual anxiety waiting to be sent to a mental health treatment facility.  i lay there for seven hours. i tired but i could not sleep. it&#039;s like the voices around me were getting louder and louder.  i eventually exploded. it took three security people and nurse stuck me in my thigh from a distance with ativan, it was great. the anxiety demons went away and i felt normal. i was later prescribed ativan. i&#039;ve tried many medicines in my twenty seven year battle with depression and social anxiety and anxiety and o.c.d. and p.d.s.d. nothing works like ativan."