Anyone else have sever anxiety???

[captaincaveman]

severe anxiety can cause depression and the other way around.

i'm just sick and tired of people spouting this anti benzo shit on any person who brings it up. of course it's dangerous, of course it's not ideal.

to force someone living with chronic, severe anxiety into a situation where they cannot improve without benzo use and then to deny it...not the correct thing to do either. harm reduction is useful. generalizations about what works for anxiety or what another person is experiencing in their anxiety...such a vague, sweeping term it seems, are not.

Ok Jean-Paul, I took your point originally and I take it again now. If you need benzos to live then take them (under doctors orders etc) and there's no problem. If you need the drugs to maintain and god forbid survive then use them please. I wasn't really making a sweeping statement (although on review it appears that way given). I just know so many people who are reliant on the things it makes me think there must be another way. If there's not then so be it.

Forcing people to live without benzos is a way of life in the UK. My doctors when they bring up my records, it says 'Do not prescribe this man any benzodiazepines' is that fair? A couple of years ago I was at the tailend of a massive drinking binge and I went to the doctor to get some librium so I wouldn't fit and possibly die. I was refused so had to go to A&E (ER). That's fucked up! So Jean-Paul what I'm saying is that with the health system I live within, benzos aren't an option (I don' thing that's a good policy).

My main point was that take them if you have to but seek other longer term solutions. Do I think benzo users are weaklings not ready to try things out? No, as a recovering addict from heroin I would be a massive hypercrite, But when you say forcing someone to live without a medicine that will improve their situation. Welcome to my world. The NHS won't prescribe them. As this is how I have to live I looked for other solutions and to be honest I'm glad I did. But I'm not attacking you for taking benzos, as long as you're ok, that's fine. But imagine if you lived in my country, what would you do??

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

Forcing people to live without benzos is a way of life in the UK.

It's also like this in the United States. I've heard that more and more doctors are refusing to prescribe benzos.

I remember being a teenager and young adult and trying to get a doctor to script me benzos for anxiety even just a low dose of valium, xanax, or anything and they refused saying how they're highly addictive. I'm glad I never had access to benzos at all especially when I was drinking daily in large amounts and depressed.

 

[herbavore]

My therapist is going to try bio-feedback on me at my next session to help manage my anxiety. The more tools I have, the better I will be at dealing with anxiety. Anyone try bio-feedback?

I know two people that have used it for anxiety with fantastic results. I don't have any personal experience with it, but both of these acquaintances found it very helpful. I think what is intriguing about it is that, like mindfulness, it is something that you can practice on a daily basis for short term, immediate relief but at the same time it is actually retraining your brain physiologically so that the long term outlook is changing at a deeper, more permanent level.

I had horrible anxiety as a young person. Now, it is a rare occurrence. Self-acceptance is the elusive key IMO. Whatever can help you to accept yourself will have amazing results. Use self-help books, therapy, introspection, study the brain and psychology, meditation--there are many ways to foster compassion for yourself and you never know what in particular is going to nudge you to move forward, so use it all!

 

[Jean-Paul]

It's also like this in the United States. I've heard that more and more doctors are refusing to prescribe benzos.

I remember being a teenager and young adult and trying to get a doctor to script me benzos for anxiety even just a low dose of valium, xanax, or anything and they refused saying how they're highly addictive. I'm glad I never had access to benzos at all especially when I was drinking daily in large amounts and depressed.

yes, banning drugs is the way to go! lulz war on drugs, foreverwise.

no, but i was really shitty as a teen and probably would have abused them.

at this point it's going to be a very grim thing if i don't get back on them. i won't answer your question, captaincaveman, because it's been pretty grim and i am trying to think...forwards.

 

[chrisalt]

Its always a sad thing to see so many suffer with mental illness and anxiety is a real bitch, but atleast we can all know that others out there have it to and not that we want them to suffer but atleast we are not alone.

Chris

 

[chrisalt]

I have had anxiety too and I still do but not as much as I used to. Right now I am past that stage and I simply do not care at all anymore. I've always swept all my feelings and my anxiety and whatever's on my mind under the carpet but this carpet is now rolling itself up and I'm going to lose my mind. I have no friends and no social life at all, I lost all the friendships I had during high school and every day I feel physically and mentally weaker and increasingly lethargic.

This sounds like my life. I feel for you. Also i feel that Benzo's, Anti D's, CBT, Shrinks etc. Do nothing...I feel so lost. I guess if i am going to be successful at all im going to have to grit my teeth through the Anxiety, depression and feelings that life no matter how it is lived has meaning and even those closest to me cant really help much..well the the 5 who give a shit. Hopefully i can but things are looking like instead of heaading down the path of healing im heading to drugs and making things "worse".

lol fml