Need encouragement to try medication

I've suffered long enough. I've tried everything I know of to deal with my anxiety without medication.

Today I will meet virtually to talk to my doctor about long term medication help. Not sure what he will recommend.

I've feared the side effects of medication. That is why I reisist.

Please give me some encouragement that it can help and it won't be so bad. These feelings I live with are too harsh
and over the last 5 months it has gotten worse than in the last 6 years.

Yes, this makes sense. but follow your physician's recommendations (obviously).

If you try a new medication and it doesn't work for you, you can always stop it. Maybe you can keep a daily journal about the new medication: pros and cons. On a very positive note, you feel that you've suffered long enough. That in itself is good motivation to try something to relieve your suffering. You deserve it!

So you got your anxiety from your father. That’s good to know. I got my bipolar from my mother’s mother and it took about 10 years before psychiatrists diagnosed me right. Because I told them.

The only way I found out was, I was talking on the phone to a lay counselor about my difficulties and he said, “I knew your uncle. He was manic-depressive and you probably are too.” I was very grateful to find out so I could be medicated right.

As for positive attitude, I stumbled upon that also. It was in a newspaper column in which the woman said if you go into a problem thinking you can solve it, it really increases your chances that you will. For I think it opens up your unconscious to look for ways to solve the issue, for you just told it to.

Otherwise, since we can’t see our unconscious, it could be set on negative, from childhood for instance, when we believed what we were told: you’re worthless, you can’t solve problems.

So now before I go into a problem, I say, “Think positive, think positive, think positive,” to make sure my unconscious is set on positive--like I told it to--not on negative like somebody else may have told it to when I was 5 or 10.

Or, one problem at a time, and be positive about that problem.

Somebody else told me this--the woman who wrote the column--and it worked, that’s why I’m telling you.

There are two situations, in my view.

There's the anxiety, which you're solving by taking the medicine. And that's great. That's terrific. Let us know how that's working.

The 2nd part of the problem, it was with me, can be that perhaps we are unconsciously negative when it comes to solving problems by being told as children that we couldn't solve problems and/or were worthless. Or by our parents solving all of our problems for us and we never had any practice.

Then we grow up and are smarter, but our unconscious may be still set on negative from childhood misinformation.

So, the column on solving problems said that's best done by thinking positive going into a problem that we can solve it.

By thinking positive before we go into a problem (I say, "Think positive, think positive, think positive') we activate our unconscious to solve the problem.

If the unconscious is set on negative, we can't see it so we don't know, it will follow our orders and trip us up.

You don't have to change your personality, just think positive for 5 or 10 seconds before going into the average problem. Then we can go back to being ourselves.

Or, one problem at a time, and be positive about that problem.

If this works for you, you might want to talk to your niece about that. Just as I'm trying to hand it down to you.

Each one, teach one.

Post Edited (Tim Tam) : 12/2/2020 11:56:38 AM (GMT-7)