IsawYoshi said:
I must say I admire your stance on drugs. I have personally refused sigarets in the fear of getting addicted, after seeing many in my family die from smoking related cancer. I've also seen people close to me try to quit and failing to do so, and I certainly don't want to get involved in it myself. While alcohol is dangerous in many ways it is not nearly as addicting and also not as unhealthy (not in any way saying it's healthy of course), so I've not really had any doubts about my relatively relaxed consumption of it. I study medicine myself so I've come to understand the physiology behind the addiction, but I still have a hard time imagining how it must feel like. I'm a first grader so I don't have much knowledge on your problem seeing as it's something that comes further down the lane, but I will say this; Anxiety is first and foremost treated by conversations. Now sometimes the use of medications might be relevant, not that I know if it will be in your case. The most used medication for patients with anxiety in Norway, and indeed in most countries to my knowledge, are SSRIs. And these do not make addicted. You might have spoken to a doctor about it already, but if not you should try it out. Most of them don't bite ;). Him or her will help you sort it out the best way, and the best way will also include taking your thoughts on the matter into consideration.
I hope you get things sorted out, from what I've seen of you around here you seem like a nice guy. :) |
I'm not a drug addict myself, but I have had many in my family be drug addicts. My dad is an example. He got injured while working, got prescribed painkillers, got addicted, moved on to harder drugs, got depressed, killed himself. I know others in my family that have had similar experiences too, so it makes me really scared of taking medication that I feel could be become addictive.
