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Anxiety Disorders
Strategies To Make Treatment More Effective
Many people with anxiety disorders benefit from joining a self-help group and sharing their problems and achievements with others.
Talking with trusted friends or a trusted member of the clergy can also be very helpful, although not a substitute for mental health
care. Participating in an Internet chat room may also be of value in sharing concerns and decreasing a sense of isolation, but any
advice received should be viewed with caution.
The family is of great importance in the recovery of a person with an anxiety disorder. Ideally, the family should be supportive
without helping to perpetuate the person's symptoms. If the family tends to trivialize the disorder or demand improvement without
treatment, the affected person will suffer. You may wish to show this booklet to your family and enlist their help as educated allies
in your fight against your anxiety disorder.
Stress management techniques and meditation may help you to calm yourself and enhance the effects of therapy, although there is as
yet no scientific evidence to support the value of these "wellness" approaches to recovery from anxiety disorders. There is preliminary
evidence that aerobic exercise may be of value, and it is known that caffeine, illicit drugs, and even some over-the-counter cold
medications can aggravate the symptoms of an anxiety disorder. Check with your physician or pharmacist before taking any additional medicines.
Anxiety Medications
Anxiety medication that we currently carry at Urgentmeds.com
include Alprazolam,
Ativan,
Buspar,
Diazepam,
Lorazepam,
Valium,
and Xanax.
Common mispellings of these include Alprozolam,
Atavan,
Diazapam,
Lorazapam,
Zanax,
and Zanex.
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