Live in horror or take my medication.?!
Question: I suffer from acute anxiety disorder, which makes me scared of everything to the point I wont even leave the house off the stuff. I really hate to have to depend on drugs to live it makes me feel weak. Do you think it would be better just to take the stuff, and enjoy life more , or just keep hoping for a miracle.
Answers: I suffer from acute anxiety disorder, which makes me scared of everything to the point I wont even leave the house off the stuff. I really hate to have to depend on drugs to live it makes me feel weak. Do you think it would be better just to take the stuff, and enjoy life more , or just keep hoping for a miracle.
Hi sweetie,
I have to take meds too, and I thank God for them! Before I was lost in depression and even suicidal...even God couldn't reach me through all the gunk that filled my soul. Since I started taking two psychotropics for depression and to help me sleep I can live a fullfilled and normal life. After all, God gave us the intellect to invent medicines, we would be foolish not to take them if they help us. Hope this helps! Love and hugs with blessings, Pami xoxo ^_^
Do what makes you happiest.
Take the medicine. Don't suffer needlessly. You don't have to tell anyone about it...but if it makes you feel better, take it!
Take the meds!
Besides, maybe one day you'll come off them!
It's nothing to be ashamed of.
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It depends how bad you are off your medication. Since you won't leave the house, you should probably stay on the stuff. At least it works for you!
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Ask yourself which is the weaker person: The one who stays at home scared of everything or the one who fights to live a normal life and happens to take meds to do so.
The point of the drugs is to help you lead a more fulfilling life. I see people in your dilemma every day at work, and most eventually choose to use the drugs.
Once your prescriber (psychiatrist or ARNP) sees how you react to the drug regimen prescribed, she'll modify it to suit your individual needs. Your needs are determined by underlying causes, body weight and chemistry, metabolism, even your overall personality. Drugs may be added or removed, doses raised or lowered, times changed. It is a slow procedure, but a routine one. You need to report every missed dose, side effect, and concern, as well as telling what worked out and what you liked.
Once your regimen is stable, you will find a whole new--and much happier--world open to you. Free of fear, you will have more fun and experience life more fully.
Lots of people who do depend on drugs--diabetics, heart patients, and cancer patients come to mind readily--live better lives because of the drugs. You will hardly be alone.
You COULD keep hoping for a miracle...but for the VAST majority of people, only one miracle happens in their entire life, and it is documented in its entirety in the film "The Miracle of Life" (most people experience repeats of it from the other end....).
My (admittedly biased) advice is to trust your prescriber and her experience.
Since you know what it is like from both sides now, only you can decide.
Take the meds and try to learn the cause, such as stress, so you can taper off.
take your medication, not doing so will prevent you from living a normal life. There are so many thing you will miss out on if you stay locked up
This may sound strange, but....
The pain in you is the one arguing for you to experience more anxiety (pain).
Therefore, you can simply refuse its request. There's nothing actually wrong with medication.
Your pain's argument is flimsy. You know it is.
Take the medication, but also look for additional methods such as hypnosis or self-hypnosis or good self-help books.
There are many ways of helping you out of the pit of anxiety, so use as many as you can find that work for you!
If you find some additional ways that help you, maybe you wouldn't feel that the medication is the only thing that is helping you stay in control.
doll, if it makes your life easier then take the medicine. i know, that you say you feel kinda dependent on the drugs. but, if you actually can live and enjoy your life with them and cannot without them then it would be worth it for me.
it's your choice. do what's best for you.
I would take the medication. Why let your disorder take control over your life if there is something you can do about it. They let you get your life back.
do what makes you happy, but if you think u can do alright with out medication do it.