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Originally Posted by pao-lino
this is such a sad american trend.
I mean, is so strange anxiety incidence in US is something like 8 times than my country (it's a %rate), and the way to value incidence is counting diagnosis and prescriptions. It's sad you say "I'm going to doctor and I hope he will give me pills".
we (europeans-but don't get what I say as an attack) are very astonished by your ease to prescribe psychomeds... I talk as a medicine student, actually attending neurology department.
it's a lot about responsability. How can a teenage safely handle psychoactive drugs?... it's sad to hear some of you take painkillers to be less shy, is worse than sharing some friends' ansiolitics to be high...
this mentality of artificial relay is a big trap hiding just a huge business. this year prozac had its 20th birthday...20 years of billions of dollars...
another sad thing is that this economical trend is extending to europe...
it's now sure anxiety can be cured with diet, physical activities, breathing training, and can be caused by metabolic disorders (see hyperthyroidism)... but I understan it's hard to move overweight asses from their computer. much easier getting pills and falling in the cliche "I'm on xanax, like in ellis novels and independent movies!", huh?
I just hope your doctor is a good one and not just a prick who receives prescribing-prices and at least follows your therapy.
good luck
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Great post from you and nice to see you around. I totally agree with the above because i have been a sufferer of anxiety attacks in the past. I normally wouldn't like talking about it on an internet forum, but since the subject has been brought up and I am a little susceptible to it, I'd strongly recommend to fight them without the help of medication, as much as it is humanly possible. I was put on very strong medication from the word go, which made me feel drowsy all the time, like I was on heroin.
My mother picked up on the fact that it wasn't helping me at all, but in fact it was sending me to outer-space quicker than you can say 'floatingslowly is floatingreallyquickly', so she made me stop taking it altogether and tried other things, like going for walks and not saying a single word, a healthier diet and generally just being a benign presence that looked out for my mental state carefully and lovingly.
It is very difficult to assest what might work for different types of anxiety, since attacks vary very much from person to person and are triggered by disparate factors. I'd say that physical exercise is very important, together with a certain respect for your own body and mind, but that sounds like an all too obvious thing to state. Difficult to achieve it when you are a teen and have a fascination with self-destructive imagery, but destructive imagery can only be fun if you watch it from a far out galaxy, not on a daily routine that involves functioning like a human being and not a human wreck.