Medication Not Working?

Medication can take a long time to work (see SSRI's page).  Never underestimate how long this takes - it can be months before you notice the slightest bit of ease in your anxiety and it can be 6 months or more until you feel recovered (it varies from person to person).  Some people though don't respond to medication for all sorts of reasons, and sometimes it can be that you particularly need an SSRI, SNRI, MAOI, TCA etc because occasionally one of those will not be suitable for you - but you can't tell until you've tried them for months - so are you on the right medication?

Someone I chat to had his DNA tested with a UK company online, which can tell him which medicine is more suitable for his body (personalised medicine).  He only decided to go down this route because he's taken different types of one medicine for well over a year and hasn't felt the progress he had hoped for.  His results were very interesting!!

If this is something that interests you then PLEASE TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR FIRST AND DO NOT STOP TAKING YOUR PRESCRIBED MEDICINE.  

I am not a doctor and this post is just another avenue if you feel you've exhausted all others and have taken meds for a very long time.

Remember - SPEAK TO YOUR DOCTOR.

Do Nothing .......

Do nothing and get better ....... how can that be?

Lots of people try so hard to recover, battling every day, trying this trick and that tip, searching Google time after time, saving their favourite sites and quotes and equally scaring themselves by reading bad stories ...... always searching for an answer.  This in itself will make you more tired and more confused - which suggestion should you follow, which one is true as they often contradict each other?  Trying too hard will make you worse - you put pressure on yourself to be better, you tense, you become frustrated and angry - you push yourself too much.  Isn't this what led you to become unwell in the first place?  Pushing your body beyond its capability, stress, more overwork.  Yet we don't learn, and once suffering with anxiety we continue to push ourselves, yet our body is asking you to please slow down.  Years later some people are still battling ........ doesn't that tell you something?  Battling doesn't work.

So why not try a different approach ........

Let all feelings and thoughts be there and just get on with life.  Stop avoiding places, stop pushing thoughts away ......... just relax, feel the feelings and do it anyway.

We are the soul creators on our anxiety - so if we're the creators, then we can unlearn this.

Getting on with life, doing exactly what you want to do is the way forward.  Yes it will feel uncomfortable, but letting all feelings be there whilst you live ....... believe me, that fear will rise but equally it will always, always die away too.

Passing through fear and out the other side is the way forward.

I urge you to read At Last a Life and At Last a Life and Beyond by Paul David for more insight into this.  It makes sense.......

Feeling Rubbish Every Morning .....

When we sleep we relax, and when we wake up, the difference between the relaxed state and the waking state can be jarring, and this can make us feel anxious. We all know the shock of waking up from a deep sleep to a loud alarm, and how anxiety provoking that can be.

On awakening, our bodies produce a hormone called cortisol which is released when it’s time to wake up.  Cortisol is also released as a response to stress and it can make us feel tense and anxious.  You can help change your thinking about your morning anxiety by telling yourself “this is just a burst of cortisol which is my body’s natural response to waking up”.  This might help in not becoming anxious about morning anxiety.

Another physical reason we might feel anxious when we wake up is that our blood sugar level drops overnight while we sleep, and this can cause feelings of anxiety in some people.  Eating something soon after you get out of bed will help.  Alternatively, have a snack or drink by your bed and have this before getting up.