Well, first of all, you really don't need health insurance to be on anxiety meds. You only have to see your psychiatrist once or twice a year if you're not making changes to your meds and since most meds we take are generic, they don't cost very much. You don't day if you tapered down slowly off your meds, nor which meds they were, but if you quit them abruptly then you could well be suffering withdrawal from stopping them. This can happen even when you taper off, but it's much more likely to be bad if you quit abruptly. As for the anxiety, the lightheadedness isn't causing your anxiety, your anxious thinking is. Everyone has things go wrong with their bodies, but not everybody gets and anxiety attack because of it --- that's something that happens to those of us who suffer chronic anxiety. If this was how you were feeling before you went on the medication for anxiety, then you're feeling it again because you didn't fix your problem in therapy or some other way and it didn't go away with time, you were just getting the symptoms tamped down by the medication and now you're not taking it. If what you're feeling with your anxiety is different and worse than what got you on the meds in the first place, that's a sign of a withdrawal problem. The lightheadedness you say happened when you started the birth control. This is common -- playing around with your hormones, whether it's in getting pregnant or reaching puberty or taking medication or using some natural substances can play havoc with us and if that's what caused this then stopping it should make that part of it go away. But if you quit the anxiety meds at about the same time as you started the birth control, lightheadedness is also a common withdrawal symptom. Hard for us to know which is which, but if you need treatment for your anxiety, again, our system of health makes therapy very expensive and almost impossible to find outside of community health clinics which often don't have anyone in them who knows how to treat any real mental illness but sometimes you can find a facility that does, but getting medication in our system is really not that expensive as, again, you don't need repeated appointments and the meds aren't that expensive if you use generics.