299: Medication For Anxiety Yes or No

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Gina Ryan

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Medications are often the first offering to people who ask for help with anxiety and panic. Today Gina talks about the decision to use drugs and explores Making an informed decision How medications are not getting to the root of the problem Why some patients are taken off medications for therapeutic treatment To learn more go to: What is anxiety?http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches
0:09.3	Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life.
0:22.0	Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. On today's episode, we'll be talking
0:30.4	about medications. And what I'm talking about today is my opinion on medications from my own personal background and from my own personal background and from my personal history of my own healing.
0:47.0	So the background of my working for many many many years with people who have been both on medications and not on medications,
0:56.0	or people who have been on medications and have come off of them,
1:00.0	and my own personal experience of clearing my anxiety panic without the use of any medications.
1:08.6	I want to start this episode by reminding everyone that we are not using medications, use or non-use as a judgment of any kind.
1:20.0	Everyone is where they are at right now. This podcast is for information on what I have
1:27.1	gathered and gleaned over these years of again working with many many people and my own experience.
1:35.0	Let's get started by saying that you are in a relationship with a prescribing physician if you are on medication. a
1:43.2	relationship with a prescribing physician if you are on medication and all of your medication
1:47.3	questions about dosage, about changes, about side effects, needs to be answered. You need to take those questions and have them
1:57.5	answered by your prescribing physician. They have your history, they have all your other medications that you're on,
2:07.0	and this is the person who, in their medical wisdom, deemed you a person who could take and use those drugs.
2:17.8	It's very important that you go back to the source and have those questions answered by them. We're here today to talk about what all the
2:28.4	possibilities are and what the other options are,
2:32.5	should you decide to not stay on medications
2:37.0	or should you decide to never start taking them?
2:40.2	Personal decision that comes down to you and your prescribing physician.
2:45.3	We're here for ideas to bring all kinds of things to your plate so you can see what's available and decide. Make a wise decision for you. It will be different for everyone. So just know that we are not making any judgment. I have many clients who are on
3:06.2	medications, many who are not. It's perfectly fine and we can work both ways.
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