Be sure that your doctor is telling everything about anxiety remedy.
A combination of changing life practices, attitude and habits can be used more effectively than any medication as an anxiety remedy to break the cycle of anxious thoughts, feelings and emotions that you are experiencing.
Quick fix drug anxiety treatment for anxiety disorder is not the answer. Many people have experienced temporary relief from such treatments, I am not suggesting that these drugs are not therapeutic in some cases, many people do find some drugs helpful in eliminating some of the unpleasant symptoms experienced, but these drugs are meant for short-term use, to knock the edge off severe symptoms. Many Doctors have ignored the prescription guidelines for these drugs many of which are for use over short term, (2-4 weeks maximum in some cases).
What this means is that patients are becoming addicted to the drugs as if they were the magic anxiety remedy and when dose reduction is attempted, withdrawal symptoms bring back the symptoms for which the drug was originally prescribed, but this time it is much more severe and in addition there can be many more new symptoms.
My belief is that anxiety is manageable without medicinal intervention.
Most drugs, for any illness, are used to mask the symptoms. A medical practitioner will prescribe a drug for a complaint then another to mask the side effects of that drug and so on, to what end? The vicious circle that ensues spirals out of control and before long a cocktail of drugs is causing side effects much worse than the original symptoms. If you are one of those people who read every word on the information pamphlet provided with your medication, you will know that the list of possible side effects can be quite disturbing – far from a real anxiety remedy.
The problem is that the more we rely on these drugs to alleviate the symptoms we experience the more the body and mind becomes reliant on them (physical and psychological dependency). If you broke both of your legs and spent six weeks in bed with both legs in plaster nursing your injuries, would you insist that you kept the plaster casts on indefinitely, even after your bones were mended, just to avoid the unpleasant realisation that taking them off your weakened legs will mean possible discomfort or weakness? No of course not, but many people who get temporary relief from anti anxiety medication become dependent both psychologically and in some cases physically.
The more medication taken to mask the symptoms, the more it is needed to have a therapeutic effect, the dose is increased which gives us temporary relief then the body acclimatises itself at that dose and sends out messages, in the form of returning symptoms, that a higher dose is required. We then increase the dose and the cycle starts again until eventually we are on high doses and not only experiencing our increasing anxiety but side effects and even withdrawal symptoms of the anxiety remedy as the body needs more of it to function normally. It is the fear of returning symptoms of the original illness that stops people from facing their anxieties and reducing their medication, but what must be realised is that increasing drug dose is not the answer, reducing the dose, facing our anxieties and changing our life practices and habits is!