These are the anti-anxiety/depression medications that I take.
With all the blogging, I did not take the time to mention what my anti-anxiety “cocktail” currently is. The first anti-depressant that I tried was Prozac, That did not agree with me. Instead of helping my anxiety and depression, it wound me up and I was jumping out of my skin. There is no denying that finding the right medication for your anxiety and depression might be difficult. Some people find the right medication on the first try. But that is unusual.
I am taking Paxil CR with Neurontin. I take 37.5 mg of Paxil CR in the morning and midday, …
Your anxiety might be caused by a chemical imbalance in your brain.
This is the big issue. There is so much criticism out there about anti-anxiety medications and anti-depressants. People like Tom Cruise get on their pedestal and preach about how bad these medicines are. But they don’t know what it feels like to be controlled by anxiety and how immobilizing the resulting depression can be. I know. Do you?
Don’t listen to the negative hype out there. If you have suffered with excessive worry for more than a few weeks or months, and you are feeling paralyzed by it, you need help. I agree that the first course of action should not be medication. Therapy …
I suffered from anxiety as far back as I can remember.
Looking back, I realize that I was nervous even as a kid. I am 58 years old, by the way. It is a very sad irony that my mother (may she rest in peace) passed away suddenly when I was 12 years old. This might make you think that trauma caused me to have severe anxiety. Well it did, and certainly the course of my life was horribly altered, but I know that I was an anxiety sufferer before she died. I was one of those children that almost literally hung onto mom’s apron strings. (Women wore aprons all day long in those days). I can remember …
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