Pre-surgery benzodiazepines might fix that and are given to particularly anxious patients - I was terrified going into a surgery and was given those, ten minute

Pre-surgery benzodiazepines might fix that and are given to particularly anxious patients - I was terrified going into a surgery and was given those, ten minutes later there was total relief. I can easily understand the addiction risk (and haven't had them since), but for acute anxiety it was wild how much of a relief it was. I went from nervous with fairly intense physical symptoms to being totally chill.