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Are anti depressants the answer to anxiety?

Asked by tan253 (2948points) September 28th, 2017

HI flutters,
So here I am, I’ve had a bad couple of months of anxiety. My anxiety is mainly health-based and I’ve been trying so hard to not cater to it but with eye twitches and low liver counts and flu’s and colds, plus being a single mum and starting my own business – things have been pretty bad for me, oh yes and chronic heart palpitations almost every day. Plus I have gone over some of my questions and they date back to 2011 and they are ALL questions based around my health anxiety!
I’m starting to think that anti-depressants are my only answer.
I’m 40 now, I’ve had this since I was 15. Obviously I’m not getting better, in fact I’m getting worse, I’m obviously well aware that it’s an issue, I’m at my Dr’s every week, I’m forking out for expensive specialists like neurologist for eye twitch and ophthalmologist, going into ‘after hours’ to get an ECG done – that cost me $115 after the Dr and ECG, plus I’m at a point where everything comes back as being fine: Brain, Eyes, Bloods, Heart apparently on ECG, low CRP, etc etc, so anyone here, been very concerned about anti’s but taken them and now swears by them?
Did they help your OCD thinking?
Did they help your heart PVC’s if you had them?
Did you make you feel more organised and more ‘on-to-it?’
Ideally, I’d like to get better by neuroplasticity and changing my behavior and reactions to things organically but I just think that those pathways of reaction are so ingrained now that it’s like trying to get a feather to dig a new path….
Looking for your personal experience or opinion, I’ll take anything right now.

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