What Helps Anxiety?

Marie-- I understand the anxiety you are living in right now. I did not want any drugs when I was diagnosed with cancer but I soon found that I desperately needed to calm down. No offense to anyone here, but vitamins and supplements are not going to touch the kind of anxiety Marie is having right now and I would not waste time and money trying to self-medicate with unregulated substances.

Please ask for a prescription for anxiety meds, and the sooner the better. You need to be able to calm yourself and have some peace of mind. High anxiety is very hard to deal with and you'll be exhausted from it.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Marie-- I understand the anxiety you are living in right now. I did not want any drugs when I was diagnosed with cancer but I soon found that I desperately needed to calm down. No offense to anyone here, but vitamins and supplements are not going to touch the kind of anxiety Marie is having right now and I would not waste time and money trying to self-medicate with unregulated substances.

Please ask for a prescription for anxiety meds, and the sooner the better. You need to be able to calm yourself and have some peace of mind. High anxiety is very hard to deal with and you'll be exhausted from it.
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I agree that asking her doctor is an excellent thing to do, @Beth Gallagher . By suggesting vitamins that are known to help relieve anxiety, I was in no way saying that a person should not also take medication that they need.
I take all of my heart medication that my cardiologist says I need for my heart failure; but I also believe that it is my responsibility to look after my body as well as I am able to do, so I also take vitamins and supplements.

To me, everything should work together to help us stay as healthy as possible , for as long as we are able to do that. As @Ken Anderson mentioned in another thread, just eating and living healthy is no guarantee that we will live to be 100; but it does not hurt to do everything that is in our power to help ourselves, either.

You have had experience directly dealing with the anxiety of living with a deadly cancer diagnosis, and would have a much better idea of what medication might help Marie than I have, for sure.
I am glad that there are people here who can offer her better suggestions, and hoping and praying that her doctors will give her whatever she needs to make it though this struggle she is going through right now.
 
There are medications (antidepressants, benzodiazepines, beta blockers), therapeutic approaches cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, interpersonal therapy), relaxation techniques (deep breathing exercises, yoga, meditation, mindfulness-based stress reduction), complementary therapies (acupuncture, reflexology, cannabis), support groups, and professional counseling, but I can't speak from personal knowledge on the efficacy of these approaches. While I do think we should question our doctors, they are the primary sources of information, since they should, at least, be familiar with you as an individual. For clarification of what I mean, see this post.
 
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Yvonne Smith said:
I agree that asking her doctor is an excellent thing to do, @Beth Gallagher . By suggesting vitamins that are known to help relieve anxiety, I was in no way saying that a person should not also take medication that they need.
I take all of my heart medication that my cardiologist says I need for my heart failure; but I also believe that it is my responsibility to look after my body as well as I am able to do, so I also take vitamins and supplements.

To me, everything should work together to help us stay as healthy as possible , for as long as we are able to do that. As @Ken Anderson mentioned in another thread, just eating and living healthy is no guarantee that we will live to be 100; but it does not hurt to do everything that is in our power to help ourselves, either.

You have had experience directly dealing with the anxiety of living with a deadly cancer diagnosis, and would have a much better idea of what medication might help Marie than I have, for sure.
I am glad that there are people here who can offer her better suggestions, and hoping and praying that her doctors will give her whatever she needs to make it though this struggle she is going through right now.
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As I said in my post, I meant no offense to anyone here. I will stay out of these threads going forward because I get too emotionally involved. Marie is very ill and as Ken said, her doctor is the best source for information.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
As I said in my post, I meant no offense to anyone here. I will stay out of these threads going forward because I get too emotionally involved. Marie is very ill and as Ken said, her doctor is the best source for information.
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And I am totally in agreement with you about that, and I believe that we ALL only want the best for Marie right now. Only Marie knows what she is feeling like inside, and only her doctors has the tests and information that can help her to take the best care of herself.
I think that is the essence of what we all have been trying to say, is that we just Want Marie to feel as good as she can and have the most support she can from everyone as she goes through this cancer treatment.
If I offended you, Beth, I didn’t mean to. I was trying to agree with you.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
As I said in my post, I meant no offense to anyone here. I will stay out of these threads going forward because I get too emotionally involved. Marie is very ill and as Ken said, her doctor is the best source for information.
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Please don't stay away unless it makes you feel bad, Beth you and Yvonne both and others here help me more than you know.:love:
 
No one here should feel as if they have to have the answers to anyone's problem. We care, and I trust that is true. Because we care, we might offer suggestions from our own lives, experiences, or readings, and these suggestions may or may not be valid. That's the best we can do, and I sense that this is better than an uncomfortable silence.

As a paramedic, I have spent time with several people who were suffering life-threatening illnesses, and one thing that is common is that so many of their friends, family, and loved ones aren't there for them - not because they don't care, but because they don't know what to say. Knowing that nothing they can say can fix the problem, and afraid that they might inadvertently say the wrong thing, they are uncomfortable. Because they are uncomfortable, they stay away, or they stand by in uncomfortable silence. A conversation, any conversation, is better than silence.
 
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