"i have been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety my whole life. i have been on multiple medicines to try to tame them, and nothing really worked... until now. i got on effexor and immediately felt relief of anxiety.  i hadn&#039;t felt like that since i was a very small child. it felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders! i couldn&#039;t believe the difference! i recommend this medicine to anyone who suffers with anxiety. i tthought all this time that how i was feeling was related to depression, but it wasn&#039;t!  it was anxiety. i love how i feel now and would love to be a spokeswoman for this medicine.  it made me feel so much better! highly recommend to anyone."