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⌈ Secret Post #2498 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I do! I've wanted to for a while. I didn't know it was possible for a long time though. No one in my family has ever dealt with mental illness, and both of my parents grew up in strict households so I grew up under the advice "Try to get over it" (which sounds terrible but as I said somewhere above it is honestly some of the best advice I've ever gotten) so none of it recognized it for a while. Then I took an AP Psych class and learned about anxiety disorders and began researching my symptoms on my own. I'm sort of in uncharted territory on my own here.

Maybe I'll look into medication.

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[(Anonymous)]

DA

Medication was the best thing that ever happened to me. I was reluctant to go on it for some of the same reasons already mentioned - don't want to be dependent on it, afraid to lose the anxiety because it had been such a huge part of my life - but a couple years ago my depression and anxiety got to the point where I just could not cope and was willing to do anything to get better. Being on meds, it was like my eyes were opened. "Oh -- *this* is what it's like to be normal!" The difference was just like night and day. Realizing what it was like not to have to lug that huge rock of depression and anxiety around everywhere with me was an epiphany.

As others have said, medication is not a cure-all, but there are times when absolutely nothing else will do, and I'm definitely grateful it was there when I needed it.

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In my experience, the "try to get over it" people are usually people with mental illnesses or mental disabilities that try to ignore that they have any kind of abnormal brain activity. My mom, for years, kept calling me crazy because of my GAD. That woman should've been seeing a psychiatrist since she was in college for her anxiety, because she has terrible phobias.

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[(Anonymous)]

I hate, hate, hate, HATE taking medication in general.

I'm fortunate that in the past few years, I've found exposure therapy helps with my anxiety. It's a tough road, no doubt about it, but I'd rather be able to go to a store and shop like a normal person rather than jumping into corners and other "safe places" if someone comes up near me/behind me/etc.

The medication I take for my anxiety works.. weirdly with my body. "Building up" never works. The side effects outweigh any benefit. However, I do have medications I take only during emergencies. One gives me about a twenty minute window before I have a full blow panic attack/meltdown so I can extract myself from the situation/be able to use other tools. The other is for when my brain goes completely bonkers on me. I'd rather take a pill and go to sleep than end up in the hospital for overnight observation.

You don't have to become dependent on medication, but it can increase your quality of life overall if used with precision. Just my experience. :)