How Best To Treat An Anxiety Disorder?

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Hi,
I'm curious how people have gone about finding the most successful treatments when it comes to their Anxiety Disorders?

Are you only taking medications or are you taking medication and in therapy at the same time?

Did you first seek out your Primary Medical Dr. for help or a Psychiatrist?
Was it difficult to find the right Psychiatrist who you felt really understood you? Did either your Primary Dr. or Psychiatrist push medication right away or did that come later?

Or, are you getting medications through your Primary Medical Dr. and seeing a Psychotherapist along with that? Remeraber Psychotherapists cannot prescribe medications.

If in therapy, has cognitive behavioral therapy been more helpful than just talk therapy?

Thank you for any feedback you can provide.
 
Hi,

I started out many moons ago when my anxiety first started with some councelling, just talking about my gfeelings help temporarily. But when i left the councellors office i was back to stage 1 again.

I had CBT which was ok, but a bit complicated and scary in that the councelor brought my symptoms on so i had to face them, i hated that.

Then finally after a terrible holiday abroad i came home and saw my Doctor and asked for some medical help. He gave me Prozac 20mg a day. Ive been on it 2 yrs, its helped with my problem a bit , which was not any other symptom but shortness of breath, it did improve although not 100%.

I got some symptoms of sleeplessness, and tiredness, fuzzy headedness too. At moment im trying to come down off it, but have tried before and had a pretty bad anxiety attack, im a week into halving my dosage, so far so good, so i will see how it goes. I really want to be medicene free.
 
I see my family doctor for medication and see a therapist. My family doctor is great, but he himself has been very honest and upfront telling me that he is reluctant in corabining meRAB because he doesn't specialize in P. Drugs. What I'm running into with my insurance is that all the psychiatrist in my area that are under my insurance are all part of a group; therefore, I would have to drop my current therapist who I have been seeing for 2 years and go to a therapist within the group. I understand why insurance does this because the care for patients is more efficiently mnitored. The thing is that I like my therapist and have built a relationship. It would be like starting all over. All the other psychiatrists in my area do not affiliate with any insurance and are independent. My insurance would pay 70%, but it's still to expensive for me. I am considering this though because I think I need to corabine. You definitely have to do some research regarding psychiatrists and therapy. For years prior the past 2.5 years, I was only taking medication through a psychiatrist who did medication management only - no therapy. Looking back I wish I would have seen a therapist in conjunction. I highly recommend that you do both medication along with therapy. It also depenRAB on the severity. Symptoms seem to escalate as you get older. It's better to take care of issues early on.
 
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