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Restarting anxiety medications

Orangegnome

Hi have finally given in and restarted my medications for anxiety. This was two weeks ago after coming to the realisation that I couldn’t carry on as I was, everything was becoming difficult including leaving the house, driving, meeting a friend. So I’m back to trying to lower my daily stresses and reduce the amount of energy I use to exist. I’ve been on chat gpt to get some ideas but what does everyone else do to help keep themselves well? 

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  • in reply to pinkchocoholic

    I was prescribed beta blockers a few years ago when I had the really bad reaction to the anti-depressants - because the antidepressants made my anxiety much much worse and to try to help ‘bring me down’ from that reaction my GP prescribed me 5 days of diazepam and about a month (I think it was about a month - this was over 10 years ago now so I can’t quite remember) of beta blockers. . I found the beta blockers quite helpful - but was only on them for a few weeks and then stopped. I didn’t have any bad side effects with the beta blockers. I remember reading that people in orchestras sometimes use them to steady their nerves  for performance so that they can physically perform even when under stress. 

  • in reply to pinkchocoholic

    I haven’t had any experience with beta blockers but I do t seem to have panic attacks either, just a slow constant feeling of impending doom and then not being able to do anything that I need to do.