Anxiety grows bigger even when you take pills for it... Face the fear!!

[Just-A-Boy]

I remember, my anxiety was about my heart beating too fast, and I am used to it now, because my doctor said I have the healthiest heart there is, and I have to accept the matter fact of a death is part of human race... Fast heart rate is also part of symptom of an anxiety.

Zoloft took fast heart rate away, when I stoped Zoloft it came back... I faced it, and I accepted it... and I am doing fine, and my heart rate seems normal most of the time !!!

Face your fear some how...

Pills cover the anxiety, and anxiety grows bigger under the cover... when the cover is gone, it explodes BIG!



[This message has been edited by Just-A-Boy (edited 01-12-2003).]

[Jennita]

Tranqulizers appear to stop that part of the brain that deals with anxiety from working - but this is not really so,. It carries on working overtime under the lid of the drugs, and consequently when the lid is removed, it erupts like a volcano.

[Drew H]

For some reason i'd have to disagree with both of you.

If you're taking an SSRI, it's not "masking" your symptoms. Something like Valium, would mask your symptoms because it depresses the nervous system.
An SSRI isn't a tranquilizer, and isn't depressing anything. Infact, its fixing the imbalance in your brain to help you get back on the right path, so you eventually get to the point where you stop worrying, and you can get on with life and face your fears.

[ZZTexas]

Just a Boy, I could not agree with you more. I think you are excatly right. Pill's to me just cover the face of the problam, and it is just that. The problam needs to be faced down cause untill you are not afraid of it, you got problams period.

Pills are given to you to depress it not to cure it!

Some may need some help untill they can face it down that is what the pill are for if you ask me.

20 years, I havent known a sole that has been completly cured of this and even with pills it just surpressed it, till the body became tolirized to the pills then it was back to square one and sometimes or a lot of the times worse than ever.

Conquar your Fears dont mask them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then you will just keep gettin better and better......

[Besibug]

Not all anxiety and stress symptoms are from fear. There are quite a few things that happen in the body that affects the chemistry of the brain and it's imbalances. Illness and disease and hormonal changes can trigger anxiety symptoms in the body without it being tied to "a fear". This past year brought on anxiety symptoms which I ignored(chalking it up to age, not exercising, hormones) until I started having "panic attacks". At first I was scared because I thought something was wrong with my heart, but tests confimed it was fine. I was told it was anxiety and was told to take Zanax. I refused because I know that it is only a sedative and that they can be very addictive. I started taking vitamins, and Gaba suppliments and exercising. They helped a little, but I continued to have (what I call) body freak outs. My thoughts were fine, I knew I was o.k. but my heart would pound very hard, and my breathing would become labored. I would try to relax and slowly walk around my house for hours until it passed. I finally could not take another "night of happy fun-time panic marathons" so I got a perscription for Paxil. I am on 10 mg. and it has helped alot. I have an appointment with my gyno soon, because I think the source of all this is hormonal(early meno runs in my family) and I would like to only stay on the ssri a short time if possible. Anyway, the point of all this is that anxiety and stress symptoms showing up in the body is not always from some fear. It is good to get checked out to cancel out the things that can be the source of the symptoms.