Posted by Siraris on December 18, 2003, at 22:02:27
I made a post in the medication forum that will shed some light on who I am and what I have been going through, but I wanted to get some feedback from people on how they have been treated for the above disorders.
I have had anxiety and panic disorder since I was 15, and I have been medicated since the day I had a major major panic attack. I never really thought I'd ever be off meds, as my psychiatrist said it could be a reality. Now more and more people are saying to me that they are on regimines of taking meds until the underlying panic/anxiety is gone, and then they go off. Is this what most people experience? If you read my other thread, you will see all the problems I am experiencing. I really want to get over all these problems and put them behind me. I live a pretty normal life as is, but there are still things I'd really like to get over. It makes it VERY hard being in college though, to deal with these issues.
I haven't been to my psychiatrist in a few months as I thought that I could handle things on my own, and I have been. I am going to go back after the all the issues I have been having lately and hopefully figure something out. The problem is, I have tried seeing many different people and it hasn't helped. I went to see a woman at The Anxiety Agoraphobia treatment center here in IL and I really didn't even get that much from it. My mother always asks me what techniques they teach me to cope with my panic and anxiety and I say "Nothing really" because they really don't... the only thing I really learned was to breathe through my diaphram.
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