I've had chronic and overreactive anxiety my entire life, I'm 29 and broke, overwhelming anxiety has been a constant obstacle in my journey to leave brokeness, I'm thinking of trying meds. I'm sure someone here has experience in the matter, so I'd like advice. From the research I've made (chargpt), Buspirone seems to be a good starter for someone with Generalized Anxiety Disorder without depression or panic attacks.But what do you suggest ?pic unrelated
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>>33879546Medication's can help with this. But honestly you need to find the root causes for your anxiety in order to actually fix or lesson them. Meds and other stuff can less the edge but it will sadly not make it go away. Witch will lead you to taking more of it, witch again is a circle that never ends. i recommend you start by seeing a doctor and finding out is this anxiety actually caused by a health issue or is it mental. As some health issues can come off as anxiety as symptoms. once you found this out you can chose two paths. one seek out guidance through a therapist or other pro. or Attempt to change things your self through means like proper diet, exercise and so on. To be honest and truthful. It will take a combo of all 3 at the start to notice any real changes. I suffer from MDD and Ptsd. I have since age 14 teen, I had a mental brake down in my late 30's that made me lets just say. Worse then i ever was and finally seek'ed help for these issues after i attempted something stupid. I was put on depression meds as long as Anti anxiety and other meds and started seeing a therapist and even pushed my self to walk to the end of the block and back once a week. And shower daily. and eat. ya i was that bad that even eating or drinking was hard and felt like i worked a 40 plus hour week. i was fucked up , In doing the combo of all 3 slowly things got better and better. After a year of trial and error on the meds they found a right mix of shit and i started feeling less shitty. witch made things like showering and eating less hard and i was able to push and start exorcising and doing things again. So i highly recommend you don't take the lone route and go seek help even if your broke. i had no insurance, no job , no money and all most lost my house because i stopped working for 3 years why i lay in my bed and wished for death to come but it never did. even with a stupid attempt.. So please op go speak to a doctor and get the ball rolling.
>>33879546yeah, Buspirone is good start. Venlafaxine worked well until it stopped working after 10 months. Buspirone is "weaker" but isn't as bad as ssris to stop. Because I got stuck with them, because once you stop you have to deal with withdrawal anxiety. It's best to start cognitive therapy too, so you are able to change your anxiety enabling thought patters. If you don't have panic attacks yet, you could try without meds too of course.
a complete life change helps. whoever you are you can probably at least make a few changes. working in food can be stressful but idk, maybe you wouldn't be stressed. Maybe you could at least get a full time shit job while you are working on yourself. You could relax not having an important job, and get some money together to get out of your situation. You didn't mention anything about your situation. For all we know you could be getting raped by wolves wondering why you are anxious. There are multiple ways of handling mental illness but if it isn't obvious people really think of things completely backwards sometimes. If you are worried, people jump right to maybe you have anxiety and that's just fucking pathetic
