Buspirone
"I started taking this medication during a particularly stressful period in my life and continued it for about a year.  It got me through a divorce and kept me within my stress threshold.  I stopped taking it when I started feeling like I was on stable ground and had little if any withdrawal symptoms.  After about a year, another stressful situation came up with my little sister tried to kill herself and I was in my first semester back to college with a full course load, trying to be a single mom to the best of my ability at the same time.  It definitely doesn't work as strongly as it did the first round, but it makes the stress level manageable.  It feels like he rock sitting on my chest has been removed, and then I can think through things"