How To Treat Anxiety
How To Treat Anxiety
Antidepressents not work to treat anxiety soical?
I have read that some antidepressents can help people cope with social anxiety. Does anyone have experienced or know if this is true? Also if you help, how they feel the effects? Do they make you more confident and not so nervous in certain situations? Thanks
SSRIs and SNRIs in high doses to treat anxiety. They may have bad w / d if the side effects. It only helps to calm. You really need add counseling (TCC) to medicines. It will help you change how you think your anxiety may not be too bad or may even prevent it from happening altogether. I have social anxiety and took 90 mg of duloxetine and 3x klonopin .5 mg a day. (my body metabolizes Klonopin faster than normal. Usually you only need to consider 1, maybe 2 times daily) works quite well together and have a relatively low risk of dependency. Each person is different. I've worked very hard to find ways to make my anxiety more manageable. For example, when in a crowded restaurant, before I could not even handle that. Now, I try to request a table near the wall so that can be back to 90% of the population. It does feel like there's less people and my anxiety is lower. CBT will help you come to understand how to think things through and prevent or lessen their anxiety.
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Treating Anxiety
There are many different ways that a person can recover from anxiety, and some of those are promoted heavily at this website: exercise, medication, counseling, support groups, and cognitive-behavioral therapy, to name a few.
But, which is most effective? Exercise, medication, or a combination of both? The most likely answer is a multidisciplinary treatment approach. Exercise, alone, can help one's condition greatly improve. Medication, alone, can help in the short term, but its effects tend to diminish over the long term, and in some cases, completely disappear altogether. Counseling or support groups can be helpful, but sometimes the progress can be slow and difficult to notice.
Speaking from personal experience, the best way to approach anxiety seems to be to treat it from multiple angles at once. Performing exercise can be very useful, but where does a person go when he or she begins to feel burned out? Exercise is not the cure-all solution. When a person begins to burn out and feel as though he or she is unable to go on, the best thing to have around is another person or persons who can help that person get back on track, emotionally speaking.
For myself, the first thing that went into place was exercise. Exercise, as noted in another article, increases self-confidence, self-esteem, and it burns off much of that anxiety. But, also as noted before, it only works to a certain extent, and sometimes support from another human being provides much greater benefits than exercise could in the same circumstances. Then, sometimes both of these are not enough and more personal attention is needed; specifically, attention from a trained professional counselor. These individuals have the experience and expertise to deal with situations that may baffle others. The duration for which one decides to meet with a counselor is completely up to that person; in most cases, the client and the counselor mutually agree that the client has gained enough skill at managing anxiety that he or she is now able to go on his or her own.
Then comes the oh-so-controversial topic of medication, a subject covered in multiple other articles at this site. What I found that medication did for me was that it was like putting a jet engine on a car. It helped to relax me to the point where my social anxiety was minimized enough such that I could tolerate new and more difficult social experiences. I feel that I could have gained the same skill and relaxation on my own through exercise and consistent exposure to anxiety-provoking situations, but the medication really helped me to calm down, be in new situations, and gain skill at managing anxiety much more quickly than if I had not used it. It is important to note that by no means was the medication a cure for the condition; rather, it simply reduced the symptoms to make certain situations more tolerable.
A multifaceted approach to treating anxiety is certainly the most effective, however, it is not required. It is ultimately up to the individual to decided how he or she would like to treat his or her anxiety. The rule to keep in mind is that the more supports that are kept in place, the more progress the person will be able to make. Progress will also be made in a quicker fashion, which may be desirable because many people have suffered anxiety for many years and are longing for relief.
A person that has just identified him or her self as suffering from an anxiety disorder should engage in regular exercise, counseling, a support group, and probably have a small dose of medication as well. In the beginning is when a person is most vulnerable; therefore it is wisest to have the most supports in place at this time. As one grows in confidence and skill, many of the supports can be dropped. Counseling and support groups have become unnecessary for myself. However, some may choose to stay in support groups to struggle with occasional issues that do arise, and oftentimes, these persons will have expertise which they would like to share with others. Long-term, I plan to go off my medication because I place strong distrust in drugs and drug companies, which put money, not people and their well-being, at the top of their list. Exercise is one thing, it seems, that always helps, so it seems unwise of a person to stop it at any time.
It is important to remember that the level of involvement in each of these supports is up to the individual; different things work for different people. As long as one feels as though he or she is making steady progress, he or she should continue to do what he or she is doing.
Overall, a multidisciplinary approach is far more effective than any one method is alone, and it is up to each person to figure out what works for him or her. Any good professional can confirm this information. Good luck out there as you work to manage your anxiety!
About the Author
I am a senior social work student and am planning on attending graduate school in the Fall. I have made a strong recovery from anxiety and have an excellent way with words, so I am attempting to put that skill to use by writing articles. I currently write the articles primarily for my anxiety recovery site, http://www.anxietysupportnetwork.com, but I also use many other mediums to distribute the information.
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