29th February 2024

A 29-year-old female presents to her GP with episodes of headache, tiredness, shortness of breath and palpitations.

A 29-year-old female presents to her GP with episodes of headache, tiredness, shortness of breath and palpitations. She reports that this is getting worse in the past 2 weeks, with episodes occurring every 3 hours, each lasting an hour. The GP diagnoses her with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and starts her on a short course of diazepam 2mg PO three times a day.

Select the most likely adverse effect to be caused by this new treatment.