Generalized Anxiety Disorder makes me think too much.
Right now I am obsessing about something that is bothering me. I just can’t shut off my brain. I just can’t stop thinking about this particular issue, which is something involving my family that I have absolutely no control over. Yet my overactive brain refuses to let go of this. My mind continues to torture me mercilessly by making me think and rethink and worry and dwell on this issue. What a waste of time and energy. What a shame. Here I am, completely aware of what my brain is doing to me, and yet unable to get a grip …
There is no cure for generalized anxiety disorder.
I came across a website that flaunts a cure for GAD. There is no such thing as a cure for a chronic illness. Like diabetes, for example, generalized anxiety disorder is a disease that can be controlled using the proper medication and/or therapy. Do not be seduced into thinking that you can go off your anti-anxiety medication just because you feel good. Anxiety disorder does not go away with time.
There is an annoying radio commercial that has a woman with a silky voice cooing about the symptoms of anxiety and saying that you should not have to take a pill …
Antibiotics can throw off my balance of anti-anxiety & anti-depressant medications
I am getting over a sinus infection that was overlapped with the flu. So that is about 3 weeks all told that I have been taking either an antibiotic and/or Tamiflu. And today I am feeling really cranky and sad. My anxiety and depression are getting the upper hand.
I have had similar experiences of feeling like crap after having other upper respiratory illnesses. My psychiatrist has always reminded me that the physical illness plus the medication taken for it can upset the balance of mood, calm, attitude, that I have achieved by taking Paxil and Neurontin. So, while I know in …
If anxiety strikes, I can now fight back.
As a person with generalized anxiety disorder, I am realizing that I will never be completely immune to overreacting to situations by becoming unbearably anxious. Scary as that is, I am also becoming aware of the fact the anxiety, when it strikes, will be more controllable.
With the help of my anti-anxiety/anti-depressant medications (Paxil and Neurontin), when, and if, I slip and find myself flipping out, I manage to grab hold before it pushes me over the edge.
Everything must be looked at in terms of degree. There is never going to be a CURE for generalized anxiety disorder. But the fact that there …
My Daughter Got Help for her Anxiety.
Once Beth was willing to admit that her anxiety was interfering with her life in a major way, she visited a psychiatrist who prescribed Prozac. Beth used Prozac for about 5 years and it raised her into a new reality. She became productive in her work (home computer business) and her social life improved. She was not so needy and did not obsess about every little thing that went wrong in her daily life. For the first time in her life, Beth was finally able to achieve a level of calm and contentedness that she never knew before.
However, as the …
My daughter needed help for her anxiety disorder. Worry controlled her life.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Sadly, anxiety and depression, if caused by a chemical imbalance, can be inherited. My daughter, who is now 34 years old, is a prime example. However, when she was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, I was not yet enlightened about my own anxiety disorder, so I did not pick up on the fact that Beth needed professional help. The new anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications were not yet available. Therefore, she did not get the help she needed until adulthood.
Beth, had a very difficult childhood because of anxiety disorder. She was controlled …
Anxiety is not predictable for someone with generalized anxiety disorder.
Now that I am taking effective anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication, I actually have many many calm, pleasant days where I feel in control, productive and happy. Before, I had nothing to compare my anxiety-filled days to. For me, that was all there was. And now that my anxiety is under control most of the time, I have good days and bad days. Before it was bad days and not-so-bad days. The sad thing is that now, when I wake up feeling anxious, it is like an old crappy shoe that still fits.
It is so easy to be sucked up by that tornado-ish …
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