Antidepressants almost ended my life; I was seeing things that weren't there

[Adinnieken]

DD_Bwest said:

Adinnieken said:

tiffac said:

My cousin also had anxiety attacks before and the so-called experts also gave anti-depressants and he became more depress, literally! He was so hook at the medicine that I had to intervene twice to get him straight up. Thank God he listened and went back to Church and playing Basketball again.

So yeah it doesn't matter if the meds is prescribed or not, anti-depressants are like legal meth which has the same devastating effect on a person. Its better to focus on doing something like sports for example.

Anxiety is a learned response.  Medication isn't the way to overcome a learned response, addressing the anxiety inducing experience is.

Some people can have generalized anxiety, with no one experience inducing it.  Its just there all the time for no reason, or for everything.  while sometimes it can be treated well with therapy and learning to overcome that response,  it doesnt work with everyone and There are some good medications out there for treating it.   Any good physician would try non-medicated tactics first, and look to other options if it fails. (a good physician is REALLY hard to find..  I saw over 10 different ones before i was lucky enough to get my current GP.  He doesnt accept new patients but as I was married to one, So He let me become one).

Why would you go to a GP about anxiety?  I would think you'd go to a psychologist.