The
Risks Of Medication for Anxiety and Panic
Attacks
Though
there are a number of good reasons why some
people that need to deal with anxiety attacks
need to try out anxiety attack medications
there are also a few serious issues that need
to be understood before opting for this
course of action. No doubt, an anxiety attack
medication can provide immediate relief and
this very feature tends to make a person also
become dependent on their daily dose of
anxiety attack
medication,
indeed, after a period of time
it becomes hard to give up taking these medications.
Withdrawal
Symptoms
Once you have cut off your intake of an
anxiety attack medication you will find that you will
start to experience extremely stressful withdrawal
symptoms and worse still, your anxiety attacks will
return to bother you once more which will then force you
into resuming your intake of anxiety attack
medications.
People that have resorted to taking an
anxiety attack medication or two over a prolonged period
of time will tell you how difficult it is to break the
habit of popping a pill each time a fresh attack of
anxiety hits them. The most common type of anxiety attack
medication that will be prescribed to you by your doctor
is the SSRI which in layman’s terms is called an
anti-depressant.
Often, even a single dose of an SSRI
may not be strong enough to cure the anxiety attack and
so patients resort to trying out different varieties till
they are able to identify a particular anxiety attack
medication that works for them. Then follows the familiar
path of taking these medications for prolonged periods of
time and in many cases these medications do not even
provide the necessary level of relief but patients
continue taking them because they don’t know of any
better alternative.
And, if the patient then decides to
stop taking the medications they have to then endure
insufferable withdrawal symptoms such as feeling dizzy,
excessively tired, being de-personalized as well as
trembling and feeling numb. The only good news for those
that have tried out various anxiety attack medications
and who wish to stop is that others just like them are
out there ready to suggest means by which it can help
others get over the withdrawal symptoms and break free
from their dependence on anxiety attack
medications.
An anxiety disorder can be handled more
effectively provided you are able to identify the exact
causes of your distress. You also need to avoid becoming
embarrassed by such disorders and instead must be ready
and willing to take corrective action because such
disorders can be treated and managed effectively – as
long as you know the causes.