Anxiety Relief Tips & Strategies

Although the focus of my blog is on ‘natural’ relief, I felt it important to touch on the subject of medications to treat the conditions related to anxiety.

The main reason is because too many people are kept on drugs without providing them with the other help they need.

Treatment must include natural forms of therapy with the goal to remove the patient off drugs as soon as possible. I think sometimes patients don’t realize this.

Anxiety and depression sufferers often end up on medications as a first line of attack. That’s how it was for me. The moment I was diagnosed and even before my therapy began, I was given a prescription. 

As you are aware, there are many side effects to those drugs. For some people, they don’t even work. And for yet others, they cause worse symptoms. 

The problem with using drugs to treat anxiety is that they don’t address the root cause of the condition. Medications cannot erase your anxious behavior, or how you react to your condition. 

The part of your brain responsible for your anxiety is influenced by your behavior. Drugs, both for anxiety and depression, work superficially. That’s why your symptoms return as soon as they are withdrawn. They do not solve the problem. 

Both anti-depressants (which are used to treat anxiety) and sedatives can have side effects that can be as bad as the condition itself. They can make you think our condition is worsening, rather than improving. 

Now, I don’t mean to give you more anxiety, but I feel this is important for you to know. I’ve experienced those horrific side effects. One medication had me on the verge of suicide – not because I wanted to, but because I felt obsessed to jump off my balcony. It was a side effect of the drug I was on.

The doctor immediately put me on something else and I was fine afterwards. Other drugs made me extremely sleepy, some made me dizzy, making it impossible for me to do my job. 

Some common drugs include valium, xanax, librium, and benzodiazepines. Side effects most commonly experienced are drowsiness, coordination problems, fatigue, and mental confusion. Some drugs can cause dependency which can lead to another whole negative side to drug therapy as a treatment option. 

And of course, there’s the well known fact that medications don’t work for all people. In fact, they only work about 50% of the time. 

Having already been down the drug therapy road, I now know that although the drugs helped calm my symptoms so I could think straight, the only real cure was the therapy my psychiatrist provided. He guided me in the right direction which enabled me to figure out what I needed to do. 

I’d like to help you beat your condition and get off drugs quickly by introducing you to an extremely knowledgeable man who has researched all the issues surrounding anxiety.

He used to be an anxiety sufferer until he figured out what works.  You might have heard of Charles Linden. Or The Linden Method. He offers an excellent program that gets incredible results.

While I was reviewing this program, I recognized his methods because as it turns out, they are the ones that worked for me.

You can read my review of The Linden Method at http://www.book-titles.ca/lindenmethod.htm 

I hope this helps.