overcoming anxiety without meds?

[sarmarie812]

Has anyone overcome anxiety without meds??

[ladywillow]

There are a few people on here that have. I personally have not. I have come to the conclusion that medication and CBT are the way to go for me. Are you on meds and considering going off?

[sarmarie812]

I took paxil for a few days..gave me weird dreams.

[Mysticsoul]

A real issue is that if meds allowed people to recover there would not be anyone on these forums. Or you would take then and recover and then go off - you would not need to keep taking them for decades

I went 25 years with no meds and no anxiety

[kellybean1981]

After being on meds for 2 yrs I weened my self off of them and went 5 months with out. Now I've had a traumatic few weeks and the anxiety and panic is back.... I kinda feel that all hard work of coming off them was a waste of time ..... I need to keep reassuring my self now that it can be done, it just takes time xxx