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Old 06-20-2003, 04:25 PM   #1
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I have some questions about anxiety. I'm been sufferring from ... anxiety ... for almost six months. Currently, I have an irritable bowel, a ball in my throat that is quite uncomfortable, and I feel like breathing often isn't comfortable. I've had other symptoms as well, including random hand tingling and disorientation. Pretty difuse symptoms. So here are my questions:
* Is it anxiety even if you don't FEEL what I generally recognize as anxiety?
* Does anxiety affect your sex drive?
* I'd love to hear any success stories in terms of working through anxiety problems through therapy or other means. What's worked? What hasn't?

 
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Old 06-20-2003, 08:53 PM   #2
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What worked for me was a combination of therapy and medications. As I learned how to control my anxiety through relaxation techniques and the strategies from the therapy, I started weaning myself off meds.

 
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many recover from anxiety but they seldom come to these boards

meds and therapy or CBT help most
anxiety seldom effects sex, but antidepressant meds taken for anxiety often do
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Success Stories, eh?
We'll.. I have a semi-sucess storie.
I started suffering from this dreaded Panic Disorder, back in September, and I started having a really hard time with it. I mean, a really hard time, I couldn't do anything, I constantly, had to be under survalliance, or.. if I wasn't I would go into a major panic, attack, and think I was going to die, start shaking (major), crying, and we all know the dreaded panic.. I spend many hours in Hospital ER's, just to hear them say, I was perfect, and I couldn't get any healthier if I tried. I never thought, I would get out of it, then I started posting here, and. reading that other people lived like I did, and I slowly started to come of my pit of doom.. I started spending time all alone, I started to get out, and goto Parties again.. I'm almost back to the way, I used to be now, except for the very occasional, little jolt, I feel, in my chest, when I think of something medical related. So I guess you could say I have this beat, in my way. And I hope you get over yours too, I know it doesn't seem like you ever will, and what not, but I felt the same way, and being in my teens, its not easier to not be able to go out, with your friends, or your girlfriend, without breaking down, and have a full-blown attack.
If you wanted to know, about meds.. I was pre-scribed .5mgs of Ativan, the tablets under the tounge. But, I never really, took them. Only when I felt I could not "Possibly" take any more of this, I took one.. During the whole time, I only took 12pillz, so you could say, I almost beat this even without meds. I hope my success story helped.. If it didn't I'm sorry, thers not much else, I can do but wish for the best. Good-Luck!

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some of us are too proud or stubborn to take meds we know will help us
with others, they refuse to take meds because doing so would be an admission of having a problem, and they are in denial

you dont beat anxiety by fighting it, this only delays the anxiety which always returns later

CBT, usually with help from meds desensitises you from the anxiety
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