Sometimes there is no alternative other than medication. I went about a decade without meds and went off mine cold turkey and it is something I wish I never did. Yes I still have sh**y days but they are less now that meds are helping

Yea but I feel like with meds I am not fixing the problem. I was on lexapro for 8 months and it worked for me . I wish I could find some one i could chat with that is going thru or has gone thru it

Lexapro is perhaps one of the best SSRIs out there. It is basically Celexia with it modified to take out some of those lovely side effects. I was my drs Lexapro guinea pig in 2002 and aside from 24/7 lethargy it worked great

It worked but I did it wrong . I took lexapro but I didn't do therapy or anything . Now I am off and doing therapy . I know I may need to do both to be successful

Even the best meds and therapt cannot stop anxiety and/or depression. The reason you are so tired is you are literally fighting yourself 24/7. You dont feel it but you are. Some of us like myself have the trifecta of anxiety depression and PTSD to fight all at once. Its a real bum deal

Good Morning. I'm new here. What type of symptoms does anxiety bring? I started feeling a little overwhelmed with life. I feel I am over thinking things way too much. A simple body ache and I start thinking the worst. aches go away the next day but then I feel another ache and start typing my symptoms in online to see what it could be. I have never been like this, it has just started recently. this happen to anyone else?...

Your best chance of relief comes from a combination of medication and therapy. Medication will help you to reduce your anxiety so the coping skills you learn in therapy will be more effective. After a period of relief you can contemplate weaning off your medication and see if you are still okay. That works for many people. Others feel that they always need some medication in order to function at their best. I am certain that there is therapy in Austin, Tx, try and seek it out. Best of luck!

Unfortunately that's the vicious cycle I have and can't break . But of course with anxiety and anxiety attacks you get physical symptoms as well. Like stomach aches, tension headaches, chest pains, dizzyness and fatigue are what I normally get.

Ok, so I am experiencing some of those same symptoms. Was there an event that happened to start your anxiety?

Mine was a combination of 2 . I went thru terrible withdrawals from stopping a med that my doctor told me to stop cold turkey. And then about 2 months after my best friend passed away .

oh, I see. I'm hoping to try and make it thru without meds. I went thru a little anxiety a few years ago after having to have my appendix removed. I was realitively healthy before that, but that experience made me feel vulnerable and that's when the anxiety kicked in. I was able to keep it under control just by talking about it with good friends. I'm not sure what started it this time.
So, do you have good days and bad days? Just typing this makes me feel a lil at ease, knowing I'm not the only one that goes thru this..

Yea . I think today has been a bad day. But yes I notice when I eat healthy and distract my brain and my self like with excersises, walks etc I have food days .and bad when I don't. Like this week has been bad eating and lots of work and work at home and have been exhausted . So today maybe a result of it

Ok, that makes sense now, I agree with you. I just realized that I have slacked off on going to the gym and fixing lunches to bring to work, and the anxiety has been a little worse these past couple weeks. Does your anxiety give you thoughts of something bad happening or becoming sick?

All the time . Today I had a headache and I felt it more on the right side . So immediately tought I was having a anyuersm. But I started thinking if it was i would not be able t manage it all and then I felt nothing but anxiety until I stopped.

oh wow, interesting. I convinced myself recently that my lymph nodes were swelling, starting a few days of anxiety. And driving to work this morning, I thought I felt the left-back side of my neck tensing up, so I googled anyurism and stroke. I feel a little silly after the symptoms go away, but its not as easy as I thought to stop jumping to conclusions. Earlier today I made plans for after work and for tomorrow and started to concentrate on that and anxiety seems to have calmed down.
Yeah, I feel the same way, if I was really having these illnesses, the symptoms would not go away the way they do, and all that's left is the anxiety.