I would honestly ask a doctor who will spend more than 15min a month with you bettering your life. Or a couple pharmacists. Really the best way to make an informed decision. They will really be able to give you the low down on how to know it's working *if* you try it and what side effects to look out for that might be red flags. Your individual medical history and other meds you take will make the difference not our anecdotal experiences. You may want to ask your family if they've had good or bad experiences on these drugs. I think there is even a blood test that MAY determine which psych meds MAY work best for you. I wish I knew about this because the trouble I had it would have been worth almost any price to not have to try-and-see drugs all willy nilly. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cyp450-test/about/pac-20393711 I don't know what they cost or much more about them because I'm not a doctor. Lexapro, Paxil, Zoloft, celexa Prozac.... A crooked doctor who def didn't know what he was doing or at least didn't care what he was doing had me try them all even though none showed much promise. Along with as-needed anxiety meds dude gave me these drugs made me so batty. I was trying to treat things like depression so that I could work and the drugs were really just causing me to fall into the medicated feeling vs feeling relief enough to live my life. They only stopped me from experiencing misery equal to the amount of joy they kept me from feeling. I was numb. It didn't seem productive after a while. The same doctor had me on those as-needed benzos mentioned above. Once you are on those it can be more dangerous than alcohol to quit. When I had severe withdrawal the hospital just increased my dose and sent me home. It's a wonder I'm alive. Healthy people can experience intense withdrawals from even low doses of as needed. This is why those drugs are also dangerous recreationally. Doctors, esp 15 min per month doctors don't emphasize side effects like risk taking and extreme impulsive actions some people may experience on these drugs. As needed rxs can result in people taking them routinely and getting a high tolerance, running out and maybe taking more than they really have or just keeping the Rx to trade/sell. Have seen people who ended up in the hospital after selling their rx. This person said they'd get em for free and sell them individually to support other habits. Ugly stuff. Like alcohol, withdrawal from benzos can result in death. These rxs also result in everyone's auntie having an extra 30-60 expired calmer-downers around the house for the teenagers to pilfer. Be careful out there. I'm a firm believer that no pill is the trick to give me confidence and it's not-even-thinking-too-much confidence that helps my fluency more than anything. Not everyone has the opinion or experience I had. I do feel like I was handled in a certain way because of my stutter when I needed a better doctor no one really listened to me. Even CBD, have used high doses and only had tested medical products for another condition overall tested medical CBD is great for me . Sometimes it helps the stutter sometimes it doesn't. Just like some days I'm a tangle of stutterers other days I'm pretty good. Smoking weed helps the most but realistically situations where I want to be fluent and professional are never really places where being a little stoned is likely to help my performance overall. If you do take them keep a journal and keep someone you love appraised of your journey. This can be really vital to keep you from falling into possible side effects without support. Also can be helpful tools if you go off the meds you'll have a more accurate account of how you felt on the meds.