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Re: What is Anxiety?

Posted by benzapp on November 26, 2001, at 13:23:14

In reply to Re: What is Anxiety? » benzapp, posted by Pamela Lynn on November 26, 2001, at 0:40:03

Some people seem to get overally concerned with anxiety at certain points. As anxiety over anxiety increases, you get a vicious cycle that continues until you freak out and have a panic attack. If you have never had anxiety before, it is unlikely you have high cortisol levels and you just spend too much time worrying. Cognitive therapy can be very useful here. Anxiety is one of the few disorders that responds very well to psychotherapy.

Xanax will work, as I said. But xanax in particular can cause a number of problems, its rapid onset and intense effects can cause hypersensitivity. The drug works, but requires higher doses at a more rapid rate than other similar drugs. When the drug wears off, you tend to have greater anxiety. Xanax is a highly addictive drug. It also affects cognition and memory more than others. Xanax makes me feel like I got hit on the side of the head with a 2x4. If you are comfortable knowing you addicted to it and it doesn't impair your life, thats fine. Thats your choice.

But I would suggest a rigorous workout regiment and cognitive therapy first.

Also, anxiety is not like other mental health disorders. It is caused either by drugs that affect the whole anxiety response, or high cortisol levels. OTher than that, it comes from your own thinking. No one can read your mind, so if you don't have a medical problem, aren't withdrawling from drugs, or taking something like cocaine, you won't find an answer.

> Holy Moly!!! Are you a doctor??? Wow, what an explanation!
>
> I don't know about other people out there, but my anxiety (panic) attacks can come CLEAR out of the blue-in fact they usually always do. I can be just like, sitting and watching a comedy on the tube and WAM I start to get an attack. My shrink told me it had something to do with the dopemine levels in my body, etc....(she started getting overly technical and I don't 'do' technical too well! LOL). I do remember the word dopemine though, in her technical answer to me.
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> I-to date-have yet to come down from an anxiety attack on my own. I NEED my Xanax to help get me through, not alot of it mind you, just one little pill. I also do my breathing techniques that my awesome shrink has taught me to do.
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> I don't have nearly as many of these attacks as I used to, but they are very, very 'unsettling' at best when they happen...and i'll be honest here, NO text book answers as to the 'why' of them happening makes me feel any better about them. I KNOW something happens to my body, that is obvious. I just want to get the heck over the attack as quick as possible, and pray that the next one will be further appart then the previous one was. I have to say, the anxiety happens first off, then the panic sets in...that is what happens to me. I think all people are different in so many ways and that we all deal differently with these 'attacks'. I envy the people who are tough enough to ride them out, so-to-speak, without taking a sedative, or something along those lines, to calm down!! Hopefully someday I will be anxiety attack free!
>
> P.L.


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