related to taking medicine and if that helped you get out of the house more so you can function better. I doubt there's anyone totally recovered here but maybe I'm wrong so if you think medicine helped you get out to places you have avoided for a long time, I'd love to hear about your experience. I'm still trying to decide if I want to try medicines again. I have Xanax here but I barely took any back in the Fall when I was seeing a psychiatrist along with some other medicines and I didn't see a change with the main daily ones he had me take for positive change. So I'm interested in doing exposure therapy with a new person I talked to on the phone today who said she goes out with people places etc and works through the process and I'm thinking do I start without medicine or try medicine and then work with her (if I decide to hire her). I would see a new psychiatrist also since the last and only one I had been seeing made me feel like a $ sitting on the couch rather than a person! My reasons for considering medicine: I have been avoiding places for a long time...this week I just started getting out and going in the car or walking a little farther in our parking lot by myself or with our dog but I want to go anywhere kind of feeling feel free again.... and I think if I can feel less physical sensations, I'd get over this faster because I only "dread" the physical sensations when I'm somewhere , I really do like people and places so wan tot get back to that! My reason not to take medicine: I have read several sources say that it's very impt for a person to know skills about how to calm themselves instead of thinking it's just the medicine that helped them because when the medicine stops like it's time to go off it, you don't want to go back to the old ways of feeling thinking it was only the medicine that made the change (instead it's knowing it was your efforts that make the long lasting change!) I don't want to be addicted to something. I also don't want to have medicines change me negatively...I can stand some side effects but I dont want to feel groggy etc.... I want to be calm and centered. My relaxation skills I do daily are helping so I need to keep that up too!!! So tell me, did taking medicine help you go to places again that you had avoided and if so, when you were there did you feel better even though you had to practice being there until you were totally okay again?? F- Face
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Favorite anxiety book: Mindfulness Through Anxiety and others have helped too like success stories. PM if you need more recommendations!
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