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Medication or meditation

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I'm in 2 minds as to whether I should try medication or take up meditation. I suffer from anxiety, don't we all right lol but recently the physical effects it causes me have increased from pain in my chest to weird jaw tightness which almost feels like it's pulling or spasming. I worry it will dislocate but then that just makes my anxiety worse. I've considered a trip to the dentist but as with doctors I think it would cause a meltdown...so no I don't think so. Lolol.

I have seen my doctor before about chest pain and she was really lacking in sympathy and made me feel like I was wasting her time lol. Most doctors appear to have this approach with me. 

I've looked up medication and it sounds like it works for some but only a few. Most people with autism don't respond well to medication. Meditation sounds like it might be a good approach to take so I am considering doing that, just to see if it actually works or not. I think one of my biggest problems is that my muscles tighten and spasm, anxiety reaction and that's the issue with my chest and jaw. Naturally my anxiety then shoots up and convinces me I'm having lung problems and serious jaw problems.

Hehe you tried medication and meditation? 

What are your thoughts on both?

I'm leaning towards meditation but I'm also considering medication, though I do worry about the side effects as I read most have horrible side effects.

I don't know why my body can't be normal and not cause me all these inconveniences Confused

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  • In the end I couldn't do medication, it messed me up more. How I won the battle against anxiety, learned helplessness, and agoraphobia was daily mantra. And a bit of self-tailored CBT, doing small and short bursts of exposure therapy with a friend to accompany me places until I got used to going out myself.

    I won't lie, yes it (mantra/meditation) feels stupid in the begining (I hated talking out-loud in a mirror, so I just read the affirmations off the poster I made in my head instead) and you feel like it's not going to work for a long time, but it's a fake it until you make thing, and eventually you believe it and more important is you realise you can and do believe in yourself.

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  • In the end I couldn't do medication, it messed me up more. How I won the battle against anxiety, learned helplessness, and agoraphobia was daily mantra. And a bit of self-tailored CBT, doing small and short bursts of exposure therapy with a friend to accompany me places until I got used to going out myself.

    I won't lie, yes it (mantra/meditation) feels stupid in the begining (I hated talking out-loud in a mirror, so I just read the affirmations off the poster I made in my head instead) and you feel like it's not going to work for a long time, but it's a fake it until you make thing, and eventually you believe it and more important is you realise you can and do believe in yourself.

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