Anybody try anxiety meds?

It's okay to take anxiety meds if you need help or feel your anxiety is becoming too much. My therapist says that medication isn't a sign of weakness. Unfortunately for me, I have to take medication off and on, because after taking it I'll be fine for around 5 months then begin having bad anxiety and depression again. For me, anxiety medication and therapy were the best. I find that medication isn't enough to make progress. As long as you continue to speak to a therapist I think you'll do great. Also, it's okay to watch what you eat. Anxiety can cause people to have cravings (my therapist told me this in explanation of my love for salty things), and they say that people with anxiety can start packing on weight from their cravings for unhealthy food. Don't get too crazy with your dieting or exercising though. Good luck.

I actually have major anxiety its at its highest during school. They do help me but you must be careful its still medicine and a dangerous thing. I suggest if its just to slow things dow n so u can think straight get a low dosage and wait 15 minutes for it to kick in and don't take it every time u need to concentrate that's a dangerous game.

If your mind is all spun out, your efforts to "work on diet" may actually be undermining you--if you're listening to the typical health advice that you hear through the media. Because that advice is to eat in ways that undermine the metabolism (eating lots of fruits and vegetables, eating low-salt, low-fat, low-sugar, low-starch). If you're suffering mental problems, it's very likely that your metabolic functioning is very low, because that is the body's energy-generating mechanism, and energy is the basis of health, mental and physical. So people are being told that it's healthy to eat in ways that are, for people with low metabolic functioning, undermining their health. It's actually the comfort foods that are what someone with low metabolic functioning needs to eat.

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