After my first visit with my psychiatrist, I found out what medication I would be taking. It’s a classic drug called Imipramine. It was one of the original most-effective medications used to treat depression. It is classified as a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA). TCAs tend to have more side-effects than other antidepressants. I was a bit uneasy about taking it because of the research I had done on it. Ineffective for social anxiety…lots of side-effects–this didn’t sound appealing to me, especially since I didn’t want to take medication in the first place. Having taken Imipramine for about a month, I can say that it did have quite a bit of side-effects for me, with the most obvious being dry mouth. After two weeks or so, most of them are completely gone. It made my overactive adrenaline rush slow down. It made me more relaxed overall, but I wouldn’t exactly say it was my “golden ticket”.