Current Events > can anxiety medicine really cure anxiety and takes how lonq to cure completely.

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please tell me.

Treats/manages the symptoms not the cause
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It medicates anxiety and subdues it. To cure anxiety, you have to tackle the issues that induce your anxiety through meditation and practice.
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so, you mean the medicine can not cure it completely. is it what you are sayinq.

Like I used to have really bad anxiety, probably still do but it's under control now, but sometimes I still get physical symptoms (knot in stomach, sweats, exhaustion) but not the mental ones, and when it gets bad I get a Xanax script (non-recurring) which gets it back under control.

Last time I did that was maybe 3 and a half years ago now.
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I basically tackle it with toxic masculinity, cause I'm a real fuckin man, I don't wanna talk about feelings and shit, just give me the shit to numb the bad feelings.

Terrible way to deal with it but I'm p good now so
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my friend has anxiety in the mental part, can he be cured just by medicine totally.

like totally beinq cured just by medicine.

visualboy2003 posted...

so, you mean the medicine can not cure it completely. is it what you are sayinq.

Anxiety is a bit more complicated than biochemical inputs.

visualboy2003 posted...

my friend has anxiety in the mental part, can he be cured just by medicine totally.

like totally beinq cured just by medicine.

It's a medication, not a cure. Anxiety isn't something that you take a vaccine or antibiotic for. All it does is subdue the symptoms. It's not gonna make someone unafraid to engage in conversation with another person. It'll only make it easier for them to not buckle under the (usually) self-inflicted pressure.
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DavidWong posted...

I basically tackle it with toxic masculinity, cause I'm a real fuckin man, I don't wanna talk about feelings and shit, just give me the shit to numb the bad feelings.

Terrible way to deal with it but I'm p good now so

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nope. the medicine gives some equilibrium in your brain once you go through the trek to find the right kind, but it's still up to you to treat the root of the problem with lifestyle changes or some sort of therapy or psychology.
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Kineth posted...

visualboy2003 posted...

so, you mean the medicine can not cure it completely. is it what you are sayinq.

Anxiety is a bit more complicated than biochemical inputs.

visualboy2003 posted...

my friend has anxiety in the mental part, can he be cured just by medicine totally.

like totally beinq cured just by medicine.

It's a medication, not a cure. Anxiety isn't something that you take a vaccine or antibiotic for. All it does is subdue the symptoms. It's not gonna make someone unafraid to engage in conversation with another person. It'll only make it easier for them to not buckle under the (usually) self-inflicted pressure.

so, if he continues to take it, he will have no symptom and be able to work fine in his own way then. is that what you mean.

Medication for Anxiety is a band aid, not a cure. This is from some one who has had it all there life.
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visualboy2003 posted...

so, if he continues to take it, he will have no symptom and be able to work fine in his own way then. is that what you mean.

No, that's not what I mean. He'll still display symptoms every now and then, but it'll definitely reduce the frequency of symptoms he has. It's possible that that reduction will allow him to be able to encounter the world and reduce the anxiety in his thought processes, perspectives, observations and reactions once it slows him down, but getting someone to stop turtling is hard.

Read my first post in this topic again. You seem to want the answer to be that the pill will cure it. Stop it. That's not how it works.
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Pills dont teach skills
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NeuralLaxative posted...

Pills dont teach skills

Got 'em.
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Kineth posted...

NeuralLaxative posted...

Pills dont teach skills

Got 'em.

life isn't a "gottem"
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catboy0_0 posted...

Kineth posted...

NeuralLaxative posted...

Pills dont teach skills

Got 'em.

life isn't a "gottem"

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but that's not what I was suggesting.
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Kineth posted...

catboy0_0 posted...

Kineth posted...

NeuralLaxative posted...

Pills dont teach skills

Got 'em.

life isn't a "gottem"

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but that's not what I was suggesting.

yeah you are. by posting what you did you are supporting the position that life is about "Got 'Emz!"
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Kineth posted...

visualboy2003 posted...

so, if he continues to take it, he will have no symptom and be able to work fine in his own way then. is that what you mean.

No, that's not what I mean. He'll still display symptoms every now and then, but it'll definitely reduce the frequency of symptoms he has. It's possible that that reduction will allow him to be able to encounter the world and reduce the anxiety in his thought processes, perspectives, observations and reactions once it slows him down, but getting someone to stop turtling is hard.

Read my first post in this topic again. You seem to want the answer to be that the pill will cure it. Stop it. That's not how it works.

you said it can subdue that symptom, so, if he takes it for a lonq period of time, he would work fine with only very very few symptoms. is it what you mean.

catboy0_0 posted...

Kineth posted...

catboy0_0 posted...

Kineth posted...

NeuralLaxative posted...

Pills dont teach skills

Got 'em.

life isn't a "gottem"

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but that's not what I was suggesting.

yeah you are. by posting what you did you are supporting the position that life is about "Got 'Emz!"

Ok. No, that's not what I was stating and that's a weird way of interpreting it. Look at my first post in the topic. Now consider that throughout this topic, TC has asking about whether pills will cure anxiety repeatedly, despite everyone saying that that isn't the case. When NeuralLaxative made his post, it was a got 'em in terms of directly answering TC's question and translating why he's mistaken in thinking pills will be the cure.

Back off.
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alright alright geez sorry okay?
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visualboy2003 posted...

Kineth posted...

visualboy2003 posted...

so, if he continues to take it, he will have no symptom and be able to work fine in his own way then. is that what you mean.

No, that's not what I mean. He'll still display symptoms every now and then, but it'll definitely reduce the frequency of symptoms he has. It's possible that that reduction will allow him to be able to encounter the world and reduce the anxiety in his thought processes, perspectives, observations and reactions once it slows him down, but getting someone to stop turtling is hard.

Read my first post in this topic again. You seem to want the answer to be that the pill will cure it. Stop it. That's not how it works.

you said it can subdue that symptom, so, if he takes it for a lonq period of time, he would work fine with only very very few symptoms. is it what you mean.

What I'm saying is that the pills won't cure his anxiety. It will continue to be there as long as he doesn't work with and past it in his own head. It would be a mistake to think that the problem is solved just because you have medication.
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I was wrong I am sorry okay?
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catboy0_0 posted...

alright alright geez sorry okay?

It's fine. I used to have really, really bad SAD back in my childhood up to my early 20s and I worked through it without medication, unless you count THC as medication. I was actually offended by your suggestion of my intent.
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I used to be all but made me again. I don't fuck with that pharma shit.
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SSRIs can cure some forms of anxiety, but the best cure is cognitive behavioral therapy.
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Kineth posted...

catboy0_0 posted...

alright alright geez sorry okay?

It's fine. I used to have really, really bad SAD back in my childhood up to my early 20s and I worked through it without medication, unless you count THC as medication. I was actually offended by your suggestion of my intent.

so, how many years of medicines can limited the symptoms to be the lowest level....like very very little symptoms.

a brony friend from brazil once told me to drop all my meds and sort out my problems and issues
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the best way to put it, is that meds will hopefully make it easier for one to seek help.. they suck to be on long term, honestly. but that just has to be the case for some people. they aren't happy/confidence pills, for sure. unless you take benzos, they definitely have a stronger effect than your usual therapeutic meds, but benzos have their own awful set of risks and aren't a cure either.
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Don't use benzodiazepines.
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I was on a variety of meds for a couple years. They got me to stop having panic attacks but didn't really address the issue. Therapy helped me explore the issue and gave me insight on how to manage it naturally. A combination of medication and therapy are a great start but don't rely on the meds for long. Side effects suck ass.
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MegaTech posted...

I was on a variety of meds for a couple years. They got me to stop having panic attacks but didn't really address the issue. Therapy helped me explore the issue and gave me insight on how to manage it naturally. A combination of medication and therapy are a great start but don't rely on the meds for long. Side effects suck ass.

how many years of medincines can limited that attack to the lowest level, like the level you can succeed over it.

thanks for all your answers. everyone.

visualboy2003 posted...

MegaTech posted...

I was on a variety of meds for a couple years. They got me to stop having panic attacks but didn't really address the issue. Therapy helped me explore the issue and gave me insight on how to manage it naturally. A combination of medication and therapy are a great start but don't rely on the meds for long. Side effects suck ass.

how many years of medincines can limited that attack to the lowest level, like the level you can succeed over it.

It would probably vary per person. I don't know if you could provide a concrete value to something like that. Talk to a psychiatrist and they'd be able to give you a better answer. For my situation, it was on and off about 2-3 years
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When I took them, they just kind of dulled the anxiety. Instead freaking out, I just felt like I was going to. Sort of like dropping it from flat out fear to just suspense. It was all still in there, it just didn't kick into gear all the way.
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