Emotional Stress: Ideas about medication?

Hi @AshleyF,

I am sorry to hear that you are facing emotional stress at the moment. I know our members will only be happy to help you feel supported during this time.

Medication is a tricky subject as it has different impacts on everyone, and everyones experiences are always going to be unique to their illness and body makeup.

Just to let you know, as part of the forum guidelines, we do not discuss specific medications here for the above reasons. Members will be happy to share their input and support with you in terms of your current stressors and how they go about getting help from their GPs etc but may not go in to details about medication -so just wanted to give you the heads up.

Dear @AshleyF,

My mother was abusing me in my early 20's and I suffered from panic attacks and high anxiety as a result occasionally, but I managed to talk to my friend on the phone and he helped me tremendously. I didn't take any medicine for it and with counselling from friends and support, I managed to get over it and overcome anxiety and panic attack. A healthy diet and exercise helped too and also finding hobbies and meeting friends/ people at support groups helped me too. Remember you need your treats too.

I had drug induced epilepsy but went into remission when drug was stopped fortunately. But I was having very bad seizures. Haven't had any since drug was stopped.

Hope you feel better soon dear @AshleyF, music really helps me overcome worry and anxiety and art and creative writing. Hobbies are good. I do cardmaking ..Pets are good and take stress away too. My cat helps me relax and gives me unconditional love. They lower your blood pressure too.

Hi, thank you for informing me about the guidelines.

I am still not sure that "classes of medicines" constitute "specific medications" and therefore whether I have already breached the guideline or whether your message is simply advisory!

Nevertheless, the question I was asking is whether in the case of short-term emotional stress, medication or some other therapy has supported by other people's experience. I've already had helpful suggestions such as hanging out with friends, spoling myself to a treat etc. as just as helpful for them and I appreciate these suggestions as they come from people who have had first hand experience of something like this.