Another Testimony: My 17 year old daughter is on risperdal and zoloft as well for exactly sameanxiety problems as you described.It is magical for her too, now she is functioning very normally. I toorefused medications for a year but found the sensory/feeling and auditoryjust too much that i could not handle naturally and i couldn't handle the anxiety attacks nor the adolescent depression of sadness and apathy & hoplessness, and had to go with the medication route. It's been wonderful for her and the rest of my family, she is now functioning at school and athome more like a normal child with greatly consistency improvement with nextto no sensory/auditory and anxiety/depression problems, it is amazing, but i would had never believed it. The risperdal and zoloft are the key medications these days, that one only works better with the other combination as been described to me by the psych. and i believe it afterseeing my daughter on this drug therapy combination.The key factor in all this was the adolescent psych. started on low doseswent to high doses once we saw the short term/working memory come back theytapered her down to now a very low dose of both the meds. The more she wastapered the drastic improvement anxiety and sensory/auditory problems/depression went away and now stable on the lowest dose they willkeep her on that for how long i don't know but her depression has lifted andshe is back functioning. It now appears the less she is on the better sheis functioning, but had to go to the highest point first then taper to seethis happen. She now has been referred to an OT for her home assessment andschool assessment and get her back out into socially functioning again withextra ciriculum activities and social intergrate her back with new friends,she lost her old friends during this two year terrible anxiety, sensory, depression disorders and hopefully she might be able to regain her old friendships back. She is ready now to take on the world, so it seems...very strong, physically, mentally, happy and we got our daughter back and more some as it appears.