Re: Handling the anxiety without drugs

[Guest guest]

Marie, a lot of MH folks mistake anxiety for a sign of depression and treat with

meds for depression that only peripherally treat the anxiety. It helps to

emphasize your KO background and hypervigilance, that it truly IS anxiety, not

depression. Many times the anxiety meds will allay the obsessive worrying,

hypervigilance, help nerves thus ridding us of depression, ironically. Have you

tried buspar or effexor, combo of those?- jana

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[Guest guest]

Marie,

>>First let me explain why I have major problems with the meds. I've

tried a lot of them and once they figured out oh you can't breath

let's correct that as well as moved out of the immediate danger zone

the house, antidepressents backfire bad. Usually they either screw

up my memory like nobody's business knock me out to the point where I

get more depressed because I'm not getting anything done, and get

into more problems at work screwing up because I get so tired on

them. Mind you this is the low doses as well.

What an ordeal! So drugs make things a lot worse for you, not

better. That seems really frustrating!

>>I read one book on helping get rid of it without meds, however

the reccommended thign isn't appropirate here since we can't trust

nada not to lash out. So ideas???

Oh, I don't know. Sounds like a really stressful situation, though.

What do you think you'll try first?

-Ivorysoap

[Guest guest]

It strikes me that this topic connects to the subject of sensory

overload, since anxiety and hypersensitivity feed into each other.

In my own experience, the usefulness of regular excercise in

controlling the anxiety just cannot be overstated. It's so simple,

but it has an amazing effect.

Of course, you may already be doing that...

Ivy

[Guest guest]

Oh yeah, plus 3 kiddos to run after =) Still I need my medications, I so

wish I did not, but I do...

~kim

In a message dated 11/9/2004 9:40:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,

bread_and_silences@... writes:

It strikes me that this topic connects to the subject of sensory

overload, since anxiety and hypersensitivity feed into each other.

In my own experience, the usefulness of regular excercise in

controlling the anxiety just cannot be overstated. It's so simple,

but it has an amazing effect.

Of course, you may already be doing that...

Ivy