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 just learned that it's okay to take medication for anxiety. i have been having daily panic attacks for over 5 years now and i finally found peace and calm in my mind. learning i'm not alone in this journey to manage anxiety is uncomfortable. i didn't realize how common it is. i will talk to my doctor about my medications because i fear they are starting to fail me as days go on. at first it was amazing but now i'm starting to get more anxiety as days go on. how do you manage anxiety with the help of medication?
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I did the dumbest thing today. I charged my earbuds, unplugged the block and put the block in my little bag instead of the earbuds. I wasn't happy about that when I got to the gym. What a dummy!
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Ever since I stopped doing therapy because of insurance, I've been feeling that old tense and irritable sense of anxiety and stress. I hate that. I was making so many strides and changes during therapy, my therapist would acknowledge all of my progress and accomplishments, and I miss that reassurance. Today I thought about it, and I made those changes! She would always tell me that I chose to...
It is good that you will be talking to your doctor about your medication. Please do not suddenly stop or start or change your medication without asking your doctor first.
Welcome to the Anxiety board at DS. I hope you find lots of support here.
You've taken the important first step in writing it out.
Keep a daily journal to help you sort out the thoughts and patterns.
When you are on medication for anxiety, it helps with the worst symptom, which then allows the next symptom to rise up to star on the stage.
You're doing all the right things to work it out.
Best wishes as you find your better balance.
My biology studies have me convinced that anxiety is a step more common than common. It is a hard-wired part of the survival instinct in ALL of the animal species self-aware enough to have a survival instinct. Alas, that all-natural wonder grows into an unpredictable number of other things when the survival instinct is over-stimulated and over-developed, as was the case in my personal herstory.
My own anxiety has proven quite med-resistant. Each new medication gives stellar results for a short while, but my underlying issues and habits always seem to break through, sooner or later. In my own recovery road, I took advantage of the stability offered through meds to work on those underlying issues. The meds gave me an emotional baseline to shoot for with my main therapy work. Eventually, I was able to wean off the meds entirely and manage the psycho-ticks of my over-developed survival instinct with psychotherapy tools.
since I was put on medication many years ago. Sometimes they stop working.
But the medication has improved my life a whole lot along with therapy.