Dude I was prescribed paxil for about a year because I had anxiety problems, but mine were caused by my unhealthy lifestyle at the time of partying(drinking to much to often). I've also been prescribed effexor,zoloft,anafranil, and a couple others and my advice is to steer clear of anti-depressents they will fuck you up more than you already think you may be.(Most of it is in your head).
If you get anxiety attacks like I do rarely like once a week then just take xanax or Lorazapram. For the immediate attack. I don't know why docs these days are so quick to prescribe anti-depressents, I know a lot of people that have tried them and think they work initially, but soon find out that they have a lot of side effects.
For example Paxil makes my mouth extremely dry and my throat hurt,Zoloft would give me tremors but only in my head so my head would shake and nothing else making me look like I had turet syndrome. And the others would have similar effects including diahreah and headaches,but the voices thing was by far the worst I thought I was gonna kill my family and shit.
I SAY STAY AWAY FROM ANTI-DEPRESSENTS.