anxiety
"I grew up very "shy", quiet and fearful into an adult who now chronically suffers from social/generalized anxiety, depression and OCD. As a teen into my late 20s, I was always prescribed some sort of anti-depressant, which felt like they were only doing half the job, but my anxiety and constant feeling of "tightly wound" was going untreated and becoming more severe. Now in my early 30s, a doc at the VA prescribed alprazolam at a daily dose up to 1-1.5mg to help with social anxiety. When I take this, I can only describe it as "I feel like a normal person, this must be how everyone without social anxiety feels". It "takes the edge off", but won't completely take the "edge" away, but it's a life changer in comparison to living without it."