Never ending anxiety

[faucet]

I've been suffering from severe anxiety and depression for about 3 years now, Its becoming debilitating. On the 3rd drug but none of these anti depressant and anxiety drugs seem to work for me. In fact they seem to make it worse. Living like this is not living. Has anybody tried a drug or therapy that really works.I know the drugs work for a lot of people but not everyone.

[Angry101]

Hello there, I take Visteril for my anxiety. It seems to work well for me. If I am out and I start getting a little edgy, my caregiver will give me a extra one. If I don’t treat the anxiety it will result in depression. It’s a trigger for me.

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Do you have complete confidence in your dentist? It makes all the difference. Do you need dental care or just a check up? I guess there is a reason for your anxiety an depression which started some time ago. Sometimes it helps to share as you can gain feedback from other people's experience and how they coped. I do hope you can work out where the problem lies as the current medication is not working.

[Dicksoan]

I am sorry to hear this but I also. Used to suffer from depression and I was using sterlazine and tryptanol then later changed to fluoxetine for the past six years.but now I'm free I am free from meds as I have fully recovered. My secret is found by watching closely videos of scoan on YouTube or Emmanuel TV.

This channel is of great importance and u might end up visiting there yourself

[PuppyReader]

Hi, I am sorry for what you are going threw, I have been there. I have been see a therapist for 3 years or so now and we have really made so good progress but I am also on separate meds for my anxiety and depression.

I suggest looking at it as two smaller things instead of one big one, once I did that I could really feel what was causing what. Then I started searching for the correct meds, it took 3 or 4 to find the one for my depression and I am still working towards one for my anxiety.

Something my prescribing doctor has had to remind me is every brain is different and it’s not an exact science for what will work with each person, it’s trail and error (as much as that sucks).

I hope you find what you need, and be patient with yourself along the way. ❤️

[faucet in reply to PuppyReader]

Thank You

[Meowmeows2 in reply to PuppyReader]

I've read that you can get DNA swab to check what meds work for your anxiety or depression. It's called genesight.com.

I'm going to have my doctor look into this.

[faucet in reply to Meowmeows2]

That would be so helpful. I've only tried one that I didn't have bad side effects but it didnt help. I may ask to try it again at a higher dose. But if that testing works that would be a dream come true Thanks, going to ask for that first if its available here.

[Jeff1943]

Anxiety is either a reaction to too much stress and 'insoluble' problems or you were born with an exaggerated response to stress: problems normally solved without too much trouble are perceived as insurmountable obstacles.

But after a while anxiety can become self-perpetuating and the original cause may be long forgotten. And we can become depressed about having anxiety disorder.

Anxiety perpetuates itself by releasing fear hormones: we experience symptoms that frighten us. Maybe strange ideas or aches and pains that mirror real organic illness. Or we fear going outside or to social occasions. Fear comes only too easily to us.

The fear hormones act on our already over-sensitised nervous system thereby maintaining them in that condition.

And so sensitive nerves cause more fake physical symptoms, more fear of the outdoors or social gathering, or just the feeling that something terrible is going to happen and we can't control it.

These are the symptoms of anxiety and they cause more fear which causes more nervous sensitivity which causes more symptoms which causes more fear which causes more sensitivity and so on in a toxic everlasting spiral fuelled by fear.

If we can remove the fear we break the vicious circle and our nerves which are waiting to recover lose their over sensitivity and return to normal and we recover our quiet mind.

Recovery from anxiety disorder, and the depression that comes out of it, is as simple as that. We must gain victory over fear and we do that by ceasing to react with fear to the symptoms previously mentioned

The symptoms seem real enough but they are fake. That headache is not a brain tumour, that chest pain is muscular tension not heart failure, nothing threatens you if you leave the sanctity of your home, those palpitations cannot harm you. Your doctor has told you that there is nothing physical wrong with you, you are in no danger, you have anxiety and nobody ever had "anxiety" written on their death certificate as the cause of death.

We have become frightened of our own shadow, the things we fear are fraudulent and fake.

Why live in misery over fears that are without foundation, dangers that simply don't exist? Instead frame your mind to accept these toothless tigers for the time being no matter how distressing they feel and you will fear them less and less. And as fear dies the fraudulent feelings and symptoms fade faster than the morning mist when the sun rises.

This is the way, recast your mind to reject fear, accept the symptoms fearlessly for the time being. Attach less importance to them, less time spent in introspection, and join those who travel in certain hope along the Yellow Brick Road to recovery.

[Elfje]

I feel for you

Because in the past I try a lot of anti depressants I had the stop

Non maket me better

The only med that I have is Xanax and go too therapist

Also low doses they like that I start up like serogeul or olanzapine but verry low

But I have see anxiety the start it up

Why I have bad reactions from antidepressants like Zoloft omg I whent too the edge

Effexor worser

And a lot off them

So talk too you doc again please

[car103]

Psychiatric drugs will help you with symptoms. When those symptoms overwhelm to the point of the inability to function, they can be lifesaving. Solving the underlying root or cause of the anxiety/depression is healing. Don't give up. You are not alone in this.

[faucet in reply to car103]

Thank you