I always thought once I'd been a nurse for a few years that the anxiety would go away. I'm talking SEVERE, heart pounding, "can't sleep, want to throw up and head is killing me because I have to go to work today" type of anxiety. I started having this when I began clinicals in nursing school. I thought as I became more experienced it would diminish. It hasn't - and I have been a nurse for 3 years now. It doesn't matter where I am or what shift, whether small hospital, big one or clinic. I was put on antidepressants in nursing school and I'm still on them (Wellbutrin). I haven't had a panic attack in years, but I had one the other day toward end of shift (I went and hid in the bathroom). I feel like I do OK at hiding my anxiety at work but after that panic attack last week, I don't know that I'm still OK..Does anyone else deal with this? I'm new at this hospital and I don't want to cause problems or ask for any special treatment. I'm not sure what to do.