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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety

podcast with me, your host and author Caroline Forin. I am dying to share this episode with you. I do

apologize for being a week late. I would like to say I planned and timed a week break because

it was Halloween and the midterm break happening.

But the truth is, the week just got away on me. I had no childcare. We were away with my family.

I didn't even get to go to the toilet by myself, let alone sit down and do any work.

So I am late and I do apologise, but I hope this episode will be worth having waited for. Finally, I've

been promising this for a long time on Instagram in particular, but I'm doing a deep dive, a revisit,

a revisited deep dive, if you will, into the world of anti-anxiety medication. How does it work?

What happens in our brain and body when we take medication? How do we know when

we might need to take medication? How do we know if it's working first? How do we know if it's

not working first? What about coming off it? Do we have to come off it if it's working first?

Are we coming off it because we feel like better about not being on something? What are the

side effects? What is the difference between short-term

anxiety medication, very short-term relief versus more long-term anti-anxiety treatment? Why do we take

antidepressants when we are treating anxiety? The nuts and bolts and the granular details around

medication for anxiety. I did touch on this subject before in my very first season,

but it was really time to go back there and answer your questions more specifically

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