"i&#039;d suffered from anxiety and depression for many, many years. the anxiety led to trouble sleeping, which made me depressed. i was focussing on the negatives in my life and my circle of friends was shrinking. i began to feel worthless. i am a musician but also a software engineer, a job that is secure and pays well but gives me no satisfaction. i took fluoxetine in 2004 when stress at  work brought my  anxiety to a head. i also used zolpidem to sleep. i kept up this pattern for a couple of years, quitting prozac and re-starting regularly. in october 2012 my sleep became awful and i was regularly just walking out of work because i couldn&#039;t carry on. i started prozac again, and since then i have been on it. it has transformed my life."