I just remembered my past experience with anafranil. Before taking it I was constantly anxious, couldn’t slow my obsessive thinking down, had severe social phobia to the point that I stopped leaving my house, and everytime I had to be around other people I was completely miserable counting the seconds until I could be alone again. I started on 25 mg and at first it didn’t do anything so my dose was bumped to 50 and then 100mg. On 100mg after around 2 weeks of starting it everything changed. I was happy, the constant tension overthinking obsessive mind shit was gone. My social anxiety was gone, and I could talk to people with ease. I also felt significantly more intelligent like my mind was sped up in a good way. It felt like I was able to access my full brain, the parts that anxiety was normally controlling were free and now useful. It really changed everything. There was one catch. The side effect was that it was really hard to urinate. I mean really bad. I’m realizing now that the trade off is worth it and hopefully I will be able to find a way to counteract that. I know this sounds like a drug commercial, but i’m being honest. I have tried 16-20 psych meds in my life, and anafranil is the only one that has been very effective. I’m getting back on it, and I hope it has the same effectiveness it did before.