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Best medication for anxiety?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sides" data-source="post: 152456" data-attributes="member: 31749"><p>For me, Valium has been a life-saver, although I do understand the potential problems with the benzodiazepines. I try to keep it to 10mg at night before sleep, and there's no way I can go to sleep without it. But when things get too stressful I have gone to 20 or 30mg, I try very hard to avoid that though because I know all too well that once I get used to the increased dose, I will need more and more.</p><p></p><p>Also, and this may seem common sense, but sometimes it's easy to neglect common sense...avoid stimulants. Too often I find myself in a vicious cycle of being sleepy in the morning from anti-anxiety meds the night before, then I take stimulants to wake up, only to have them trigger my anxiety and need to calm down. Drugs to get up and then drugs to get back down...we are best off avoiding both as much as possible.</p><p></p><p>I know how simplistic that seems, but I see too many people and myself getting caught up in a vicious cycle of "more and more and more", drugs to counteract the negative effects of other drugs. That's no way for any of us to live.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sides, post: 152456, member: 31749"] For me, Valium has been a life-saver, although I do understand the potential problems with the benzodiazepines. I try to keep it to 10mg at night before sleep, and there's no way I can go to sleep without it. But when things get too stressful I have gone to 20 or 30mg, I try very hard to avoid that though because I know all too well that once I get used to the increased dose, I will need more and more. Also, and this may seem common sense, but sometimes it's easy to neglect common sense...avoid stimulants. Too often I find myself in a vicious cycle of being sleepy in the morning from anti-anxiety meds the night before, then I take stimulants to wake up, only to have them trigger my anxiety and need to calm down. Drugs to get up and then drugs to get back down...we are best off avoiding both as much as possible. I know how simplistic that seems, but I see too many people and myself getting caught up in a vicious cycle of "more and more and more", drugs to counteract the negative effects of other drugs. That's no way for any of us to live. [/QUOTE]
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