Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I have been on Xanax for about 4 years. My doctor prescribed it to me after I lost my mother, and my husband left me. I was on a small dose for almost the whole time, but I built up a tolerance to it, so about 5 months ago my doctor upped my dose. At first I felt better. But I was still so anxiety driven, all the time. After much research, and speaking to many doctors, I can now say I have a addiction to this drug, that I thought was helping with my anxiety. When I wake in the morning, I always thought I was having an anxiety attack. I do see that I was having wihdrawl from the drug. For me to say that, is a big deal, because my father was a alcoholic, and my brother was a drug attack, and I always said that would never be me. But I have become chemically dependent on it. NOW.... I have to find out how to wean myself off, because I have never had this much anxiety in my life, and it is because of the drug. Time to gain control of my life again.......
I dont know about you, but i feel betrayed by doctors. You are raised to trust them and then they get you hooked on dangerous narcotics that are terrible for you!