Sometimes we have to take medication in order to get whole again. Though prescribing antidepressant medicine is a last resort treatment, it can be absolutely necessary in certain situations. For example, I had a friend who has had panic attacks for over 2 years. She has tried every treatment possible to decrease the attacks, but so far they continue. The problem was they were making it hard for her to live her life. She got to the point where she couldn’t drive, hold a job or even socialize with her friends. In her case, medication was a godsend.
With severe anxiety, the fear is always it will lead to depression. The longer anxiety is allowed to persist, the more your system gets used to functioning in that anxious state.
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So medication can play an important part in the treatment of anxiety. Even if you don’t particularly like to take medication, odds are you won’t take it for too long. In other words, don’t add taking antidepressant medication to your list of worries!
