anxiety and stress
"I've been on Prozac on and off throughout my life. I've been on it now for 6 consecutive months and I must say that anxiety is a thing of the past. I don't want to kill myself all the time either. I also am less impulsive (I smoke a lot though). I do tend to have trouble feeling emotions sometimes. This medicine is very powerful yet it seems subtle or unnoticeable while I'm on it, but the periods that I go off it, I can easily see its dampening effect on the mind because things become really clear - perhaps too clear. "