I think I can’t handle with my anxiety anymore
Hello everyone. I have been living abroad for 5 years. Living here brought many challenges at the beginning, especially legal and uncertain processes. While dealing with all of this, I continued seeing my therapist online and I was diagnosed with anxiety. I’m not sure if my existing worries and anxiety disorder turned into clinical anxiety or if something else developed. During this uncertain period, my therapist told me this was normal, and I normalized it too. But now I don’t want to be someone who has anxiety or an anxiety disorder anymore. I want to have a healthy mindset. What should I do?
Health anxiety has been especially hard for me lately. I often wake up at night with the feeling that I’m suffocating in my sleep. Is it because of my reflux? My allergies? My chronic asthma? Could the bad and rainy weather and humidity be the cause? Or is it anxiety? I experienced something similar before, and my doctor prescribed a medication similar to an anxiety/muscle relaxant and it helped. However, I don’t really want to use medication, but maybe I am at a point where I need it — I’m not sure. What should I do?
Thanks
Gatinha
@gatinha
If the medication is working, then there is nothing wrong with using it.
It doesn't mean you have to use it forever.
What works for me is sitting down and counting my breaths until my heart rate calms, then telling myself, I am safe, this will pass, it cannot hurt me.
Listening to music to stop the overthinking.
And finding things that help me personally in my daily life to feel better, be it exercise, be it walking, be it dancing
You can feel more yourself 💚🤗
Yes, Medications may be necessary to get cured but keep on changing and trying medicines with diffrent doses and timings by the prescribers make it like *** to your mind and body. Various interactions and reactions some time problomatic. Better qualified professional with experience may be better