"a year ago i had a major health scare that turned out to be fine in the end, but i ended up crashing, developing severe insomnia, severe anxiety, muscle twitches all over, major joint pain, brain fog and finally a depression. i resisted taking drugs as i thought i was going to get lots of side effects. i tried everything under the sun; yoga, meditation, acupuncture, tinctures, craniosacral therapy, psychotherapy, kinesiology etc. my psychiatrist and gp both strongly recommended i should take lexapro. when i started pondering why i was living i started taking the meds. i started sleeping better and after some weeks the worst dread was gone and so was the anxiety. after 2 months i feel much better and i hardly had any side effects at all!:)"