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Anyone been through successful therapy for anxiety?
Question : Anyone been through successful therapy for anxiety?
I am currently in therapy for SAD and GAD. I don’t feel like the therapy is working. The therapist and I just discuss anxiety provoking moments and irrational thoughts (but he admits I already know the irrational thoughts and cognitive behavioral stuff). Should we be doing something else? Please only people with experiences reply.
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Answer by JEN
i am taking xanax and lexapro for my anxiety. it seems to have it under control for me.
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#2 written by HoneyPie 1 year ago
I have suffered from anxiety for 5 years and I didn’t seek any treatment, medications, or groups. I think it’s excellent your in groups and you are working with a therapist. I think you should tell your therapist that you don’t feel like it’s working for you. Some things that helped me with panic attacks are; finding out what causes them, what are some ways to prevent them, and what can you do while you have them. I also called the Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety and they sent me a free tape. It really worked excellent!
Only you can overcome your anxiety and it won’t happen overnight!
I get anxiety if I even think about dying. You need to find out (if you don’t know already) what is causing this. When I have a panic attack, I try to focus my mind on something else, breath deeply, and change the subject, or turn the radio on (something!) to get my mind off of it!Good Luck and I know how stressfull living with this disease is. Here is the website for Midwest Center, I would suggest that you call them and they will send you a free tape
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#3 written by just me 1 year ago
I am in therapy for agoraphobia, bipolar disorder and other anxiety disorders.
I am taking medication but I don’t see much difference. My biggest help has come from a handful of things. The biggest one being coping skills. I have asked my doctor’s repeatedly to help me with coping skill ideas. Rather than drugging me more it is important for me to find skills that will help when facing situations that cause anxiety. Like my biggest fear…fire. My focus of my agoraphobia is that I am terrified that my house will catch on fire while I am away so I have to rush home constantly and will not leave because I know this will occur. My coping skill has been to do a thorough check of my home, being certain to check the stove and turning off all appliances (including the dishwasher, dryer, etc.) My biggest part of my coping skill here is the idea I tell myself constantly. “If it is on fire, what am I going to do about it? Besides, I am very well insured. I’ll just rebuild and rebuild better and bigger.”
One other important part of making things easier for you is to take responsibility for your illness…realizing that you do certain things out of fear and those fears are not necessarily “real” fears even though they are real to you…but it sounds as if you have already done this.
Ask your therapist for coping skills to help you in the situations you encounter.
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#4 written by psychiatrist_in 1 year ago
You like or don’t like, you have to be on medicines for long time. Human personality is not a house or things which can be totally removed/destroyed and built new one. You can only plaster the scratched or patches but can’t change the whole personality. You and your therapist can try only for the relief and you have to accept what you are, you are, and learn how to live with these problems. If medicine is needed, take it, what is the harm, many people suffering from physical problem say for Diabeties are doing the same and living/enjoying lives. Psychological problems are not much different. To me, you belong to well aware group of psychological problems. You have reserved the answer only for experienced person-experience of having GAD or experience of treatment of such cases ? Both may be beneficial in your case.
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#5 written by Bellaruse 1 year ago
I suffer from the same as you, as well as PTSD, etc. It took almost 10 yrs. to find my therapist, my “angel” in disguise! She is a specialist who was basically a pioneer in the therapy for PTSD, SAD and ,GAD. Yeah, she’s a bit old and recently retired
, but taught me amazing skills to do in case of and during these dabilitating attacks. I would like to pass the best trick on to you, and you’ll be amazed at how fast it works. It has litterally saved my sanity.
When you feel an attack coming on, or are in the thick of one, your savior will be ice! Grab some ice cubes, sit on the ground to feel your sit spots(butt bones), preferably with your back against a wall. Squeeze the hell out of that ice and do not let go no matter what until your breathing, heart beat, and racing thoughts slow to a regular mode again. For some reason, that burn from the ice in your fist snaps you back in to the present in a flash!
Any how, I suggest that at this point, your therapist and you figure out your triggers, and begin to discuss ways to get yourself out of an attack or strategies to use other than the head between the knees, breathing in a bag stuff. There are way more strategies that have been discovered now a days.
If you have any more questions, or need some other help, feel free to get in touch. I’ve been dealing with this and learning tons of stuff for years now. Best of luck
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NO. I can talk about it with my shrink, but it doesn’t make it go away………sometimes I can short circuit a panic attack by focusing on my breathing. Inhale deep through you nose and press your tongue to the roof of your mouth while exhaling through your mouth. I read this somewhere and it works okay. Currently I am taking Zoloft and Wellbutrin together and am feeling pretty damn good lately!