Meditation is fine. But if your anxiety is always at a high level you need
medication to calm you down enough to focus on meditating. I was so anxious I was physically shaking and had trouble concentrating before any medication.

I love this post. It's very easy for doctors to just prescribe medication to people who don't necessarily need it. @tired is right there are people who do need it. However I believe there can be such a good balance between both.

ARRGGG!!! Every story I run across, suggests medication. I'm what you call a naturalist, and believe our current openness to medicating is sad. Please don't be offended with my disbelief in medication, Its all too often I hear of people that start with medication and then before you know it your body becomes immune and your doctor wants to put you on another one to assist the original medication. I just don't know what to do, I surely don't want to spend the rest of my life sedated :-/

It's very sad indeed. However, I have learned that everyone has to do what is best for them.
I too have gone natural and meditate......eat good clean foods (went vegetarian 2 months ago).....drink a lot of clean water......get plenty of good sleep......dropped over 100 pounds effortlessly.......and kicked toxic peeps outta my life (I know....it's not possible for everyone, but firm boundaries are needed and should be kept).

I started off on meds through my journey of anxiety and a host of other health ailments that seemed to be getting worse with a doctor who just hands you a pill......and then another......and then another........
It has taken me two months of detoxing from all the meds and horrible toxins built up in my body to a point of feeling much better. It's getting better and better all the time. I am a half a dose of meds away from being totally med free (free from 4 toxic prescriptions down to a half dose of one pill).

The trick is to go slow. I had to take half an Adivan (not sure of the spelling) and went through a few anti depressants til I calmed down enough to get into a routine of deep breathing and meditation. I needed guided meditations to keep from drifting......but am happy to say that meditation....deep breathing......daily walks and stretching along with healthy eating, water drinking, and hanging around positive/healthier peeps is key. It has become a lifestyle.
It is several components to beating anxiety and disease.
We can lead a horse to water......the rest is up to the individual.
When you get sick and tired of meds that fail and have all kinds of horrible side effects......maybe......just maybe.......you make the change.
I'm in no judgement, just feel sad that thinking is the answer.......and it is for the symptoms, but not the cure.
It's not easy to make changes as we get set in our lifestyles and feeling helpless......but we are not as helpless as we think.
Our feelings are our guidance system and our bodies came with an immune system in tact until Western medicine came along and told us otherwise.
Yes, there are diseases, but look around. All the technology and knowledge at our fingertips with all kinds of drugs and yet we have more diseases, cancer, anxiety, MS, ALS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Dementia, etc that have no cures (so we are told).
Look up the money trail and it will lead you straight to the answers.....we are being duped!!!!!
Oh well......I know it is not what peeps wanna hear, so I will get off my soap box. My hopes if what I share helps one person do research and take control of their health.....and life, then it will be worth it.

sorry.....I did not finish my sentence in the 3rd paragraph....

"I'm in no judgement, just feel sad that thinking a PILL is the answer....."

Oh happy day, Msblank!!!! Thank you so much for sharing, I found great hope in your reply!!!!

I will definitely educate myself from here, any suggestions on good sources? It is so awesome to finally know, for sure, that it is possible.... I am completely smitten with joy. Western medicine has attempted to make me their poster child this year, but I refuse to believe that my cure lies at the bottom of those twelve pill bottles. I am in protest and have not taken my medication, that the doctors claim I have to have, and as God as my witness according to the test results it is not harming me at all! Three months post op, and my once enlarged heart is normal, with zero medication :-D Thank you Msblank, I thought for sure it would just be the but I'm not crazy.... Yay, lol

This is how that last line should have read "I thought for sure it would just be temporary.... But I'm not crazy, yay!!!". Thanks again