What to do when you have so much anxiety and need medical treatment..

[Kiadodie]

I''ve done all the praying and have had people pray for me. I have terrible anxiety issues (my mom has them too). My days are up and down and I just have issues w/ negative thinking. THe more i try to stop thinking negative the worse it gets. So, my aunt told me to get on medication for anxiety. Then I asked how would God feel about it. She said God wouldn't have it out there available if we didn't need it.
I've prayed and it's like a constant battle this anxiety within me. I can't take it anymore. I barely can sleep, I fight w/ myself mentally everyday, and I'm breaking out...so my last resort is to get on anxiety meds which I have been fighting against. What do you guys think?

 

[bermudabeauty]

Well point of the matter is some people need some medication to help them through. I also suffer from anxiety and on the very rare ocassion I will take .5mg of Lorazepam (which is a very mild sedative). When I first was suffering from this condition, I was like 17. I wrote a diary of everytime I had an anxiety attack to figure out what was bringing them on. I also tried some techiques that helped me "get my mind off it and calm down" like turning on the radio and listening to relaxing music or call someone on the phone just to talk about anything. Key to dealing with anxiety is to remember it literally only lasts a few seconds, even though those seconds seem like a lifetime. I also try to avoid foods that promotes anxiety. Anything with caffene, chocolate, even some teas. I also am trying St. Johns wart. for anxiety. Ask you doctor for herbal alternatives such as that to try if you don't want to get medication. If you have any questions, please feel fee to PM me. Hope you get better soon.

 

[Kiadodie]

Well point of the matter is some people need some medication to help them through. I also suffer from anxiety and on the very rare ocassion I will take .5mg of Lorazepam (which is a very mild sedative). When I first was suffering from this condition, I was like 17. I wrote a diary of everytime I had an anxiety attack to figure out what was bringing them on. I also tried some techiques that helped me "get my mind off it and calm down" like turning on the radio and listening to relaxing music or call someone on the phone just to talk about anything. Key to dealing with anxiety is to remember it literally only lasts a few seconds, even though those seconds seem like a lifetime. I also try to avoid foods that promotes anxiety. Anything with caffene, chocolate, even some teas. I also am trying St. Johns wart. for anxiety. Ask you doctor for herbal alternatives such as that to try if you don't want to get medication. If you have any questions, please feel fee to PM me. Hope you get better soon.

Thank you. I actually don't get anxiety attacks, I just live with anxiety most of the time (hereditary). Usually it comes from my thinking pattern I realize. I've tried to think "postive"..but the more I try it seems to harder it becomes. Yes, I agree that food can either help or can make the anxiety worse so I am monitoring what I eat. I just feel right now it really has become really hard to contain it.

 

[bermudabeauty]

Thank you. I actually don't get anxiety attacks, I just live with anxiety most of the time (hereditary). Usually it comes from my thinking pattern I realize. I've tried to think "postive"..but the more I try it seems to harder it becomes. Yes, I agree that food can either help or can make the anxiety worse so I am monitoring what I eat. I just feel right now it really has become really hard to contain it.

Well maybe you can speak to a counselor about what is going on in your life. Counselors can offer you relaxation techiques etc. Most employers have an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which offers free confidential counseling for employees. Hope you get through this.

 

[Kiadodie]

Well maybe you can speak to a counselor about what is going on in your life. Counselors can offer you relaxation techiques etc. Most employers have an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which offers free confidential counseling for employees. Hope you get through this.

Thanks dear. I appreciate it.

 

[tmichelle]

I too have sabatoged much of my life by my thinking. Anxiety, negativity and even worse! I have learned that each and every time (I mean this might be every two hours or even 30 seconds for me) I have to counter each thought with what God actually says. It is not easy at first and takes a constant vigilance but I am promised it will get easier.

2 Cor. 10:5 says, "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ". I know this is going to sound very silly and stupid of me, but I didn't realize it was a "command". I just thought it was a "suggestion" for better living and I thought that by my negative, anxious thoughts I was "protecting" myself from being let down or whatever. I didn't realize it was actually starting to eat away at who God wanted me to be. By the way, if you don't get your thoughts under control you might end up like I did which was filled with jealousy and hate. (I didn't even know that is what happened until I was tested in such a way that what was in me oozed out for me to see and it couldn't be denied that it was UGLY).

Eph. 2:1-3 says, "As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

I actually realized that the bolded portion was talking about me! I seemed to have a disconnect going on thinking that "cravings of our sinful nature" was only apparently bad things like say, porn, gluttony etc. I didn't make the connection that I was gratifying my sinful nature when I wasn't trusting God, when I chose to use my words to define how I saw reality not His. This was so insidious because I didn't even see it coming. No one on the outside would have guessed that I had chosen my words over Gods, but it became apparent to me during a particular crisis and the crisis was made much worse because I hadn't trained myself to believe God's Words over my own.

BTW, it is also very helpful to read your Bible as much as possible because it is impossible to choose God's word over your own when you don't know them.

Many blessings!

 

[Honey6928215]

Does this includes Panic Attacks? My fifteen-year-old daughter had them since she was seven years old. She's on Hydroxyzine. She knows how to control them but my concern is that she will be taking drives education at school next year and I'm concerned about how she will handle it while driving. Thanks!

 

[Kiadodie]

Does this includes Panic Attacks? My fifteen-year-old daughter had them since she was seven years old. She's on Hydroxyzine. She knows how to control them but my concern is that she will be taking drives education at school next year and I'm concerned about how she will handle it while driving. Thanks!

I actually don't have panic/anxiety attacks. I just feel anxiety and I believe I was going thru mild depression..and still in it. I have broken out, I can barely sleep and motivation for life has diminished and that is so not me.

 

[Sasha Fierce]

Well maybe you can speak to a counselor about what is going on in your life. Counselors can offer you relaxation techiques etc. Most employers have an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which offers free confidential counseling for employees. Hope you get through this.

I agree. Keep praying and seek a counselor. This helped me better than the medication which made me so lax I slept through work one morning during a summer job I held in a lab . Needless to say, I only took those meds once then chunked the rest. I need to have more control and awareness over my body. Not knocking the drug when its needed but I think sometimes docs overmedicate/overtreat/overdiagnose. Many times simpler and better solutions are available .

 

[LiberianGirl]

I actually don't have panic/anxiety attacks. I just feel anxiety and I believe I was going thru mild depression..and still in it. I have broken out, I can barely sleep and motivation for life has diminished and that is so not me.

I know exactly what you are talking about Kia. I was going through the same thing (still am to a certain degree but much better) this past year. I had so many stressors in my life--my father's illness, career, personal life, etc. I recently decided to committ myself to Christ and getting closer to the Lord has helped a lot. Also, I strongly feel that you have to get rid of any negative forces and people in your life. Most people aren't aware/deny the things that are causing them to feel down and think negatively. Pray that God will open your eyes to what is causing your anxiety. Once I was honest about the things that I needed to cut out of my life, my anxiety decreased a lot. I thank God because I have been able to sleep through the night without waking up at 2am in the morning, going back to sleep at 4am, and then having to get up for work at 6am. When I do wake up in the middle of the night or have difficulty during the day I just listen for God's guidance.

Pray for guidance when it comes to medication. I am a licensed therapist and medication will be my last resort. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[tmichelle]

I know exactly what you are talking about Kia. I was going through the same thing (still am to a certain degree but much better) this past year. I had so many stressors in my life--my father's illness, career, personal life, etc. I recently decided to committ myself to Christ and getting closer to the Lord has helped a lot. Also, I strongly feel that you have to get rid of any negative forces and people in your life. Most people aren't aware/deny the things that are causing them to feel down and think negatively. Pray that God will open your eyes to what is causing your anxiety. Once I was honest about the things that I needed to cut out of my life, my anxiety decreased a lot. I thank God because I have been able to sleep through the night without waking up at 2am in the morning, going back to sleep at 4am, and then having to get up for work at 6am. When I do wake up in the middle of the night or have difficulty during the day I just listen for God's guidance.

Pray for guidance when it comes to medication. I am a licensed therapist and medication will be my last resort. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

You're about the first one I've heard of that doesn't go first to the drugs.

 

[Shimmie]

I''ve done all the praying and have had people pray for me. I have terrible anxiety issues (my mom has them too). My days are up and down and I just have issues w/ negative thinking. THe more i try to stop thinking negative the worse it gets. So, my aunt told me to get on medication for anxiety. Then I asked how would God feel about it. She said God wouldn't have it out there available if we didn't need it.
I've prayed and it's like a constant battle this anxiety within me. I can't take it anymore. I barely can sleep, I fight w/ myself mentally everyday, and I'm breaking out...so my last resort is to get on anxiety meds which I have been fighting against. What do you guys think?

The medication may be the 'answer' God has given you for your prayers.

Having anxiety is nothing to be ashamed of and it is not a sin. We ALL have so much in life that causes stress, ailments, pains, you name it. And there is an answer for it all. Jesus! It may be in the form of medicine or a change in diet, or remviing ourselves from a situation. Whatever the case, it is nothing that you have done wrong. It's Life!

Take a deep breath, and together we are asking the Holy Spiirt to lead you to the right path of treatment and the right person or persons. That no medication will be given to you unless it is the right mediction.

I thank God for you, angel. You've acknowledged this and now you are addessing it. And you will overcome it ... this will not overcome you.

Your prayers were perfect; perfect because you sought help from the Perfect One, God our Father in Heaven. There' is nothing wrong with you as a person; you have not failed God as his child nor in faith; and you have not failed as a Christian Believer.

You've actually set the best example of all, by putting God first. And you are first in His agenda to set you completely free of this.

And loved one, you ARE free indeed.