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Re: feel like i'm weak/failure for using XANAX again

Posted by mellymel_d on September 13, 2005, at 18:00:10

In reply to feel like i'm weak/failure for using XANAX again, posted by chess on September 13, 2005, at 16:40:14

Wish I could listen to my own advice but let me tell you what I use to try and help me when I feel that way for trying to fight through my anxiety and not take my xanex: I once told my friend the same thing about feeling weak and she said "Hell no" she said "If anything I feel like I'm weak for not having the strength to get help like you did." She said "almost everybody I know has one issue or another, I feel like the true strong ones are the ones who admit it and get help"

I try to think of that because it is true. However, I feel the same way you do too. Don't beat yourself up or put more on you than you need to. That's why the doctor gave you those pills, too assist. The other night I was so messed up with anxiety and was trying to fight through it and when I finally took it- I felt so much better. That's what truly matters...Feeling better, right?

Look at it this way- there's more of us, dealing with this, than those ignoring it. So actually we don't have the problems, THEY DO :-)

Wishing you the best.. (((HUGS)))

Your stranger friend,

Melanie

PS- You know you'll need to repest this back to me soon since I'm really crashing today ;-)
> am i wrong to feel like i'm weak and a failure for deciding to try xanax again to help me handle my anxiety and ocd?, i've been working hard for a month now without xanax to handle my anxious feelings and thoughts and fear of having another panic attack with just my cbt skills and lexapro (doing alot of exposure and saying all the right things in a rational and accepting way, i'm even doing interoceptive exercises to get used to the panic feelings), sometimes i've been able to do well and i even started working again, but then recently i've been very anxious and i'm obsessed with fearing having another panic attack, i dread having one again and i'm tired of feeling general anxiety all the time, my fear of dying is very intense lately, maybe i'm depressed?, anyways can anyone relate to what i'm saying?, maybe i should be grateful that xanax exists?


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