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What are your guys’s experience with the getting diagnosed with anxiety/getting medicated for it? Also what symptoms were you having? Rlly struggling between just ignoring it or going to talk to someone for it
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Anonymous 7w

I think you have to talk to a mental health professional to get diagnosed but normal drs can prescribe meds. Dm me if you’d like to hear more about my personal symptoms, I have social anxiety

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Anonymous 7w

talk to your doctor about it if you feel that way, they’ll talk to you about it and can assign u a light dose depending on what they reccomend and see how it works for you and you can go from there

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Anonymous 7w

Before going on an SSRI try buspirone and maybe go to the gym, exercise, drink water, read books, you really can manage your anxiety without medication, I did and even if everyone says you can’t don’t believe them I used to cry every day for months on end. Don’t give up

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Anonymous 7w

i’ve had anxiety ever since i was born and i promise you if you talk to ur doctor and get prescribed fluoxetine it’s a life changer, no side effects and you feel calmer after maybe a week trust me

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Anonymous 7w

Going talk to my doctor about anxiety was the best decision I could have ever made for myself. I was really struggling with talking to new people, speaking up in class or doing anything on my own out of fear. My doctor started me on Zoloft and it has truly changed my life for the better.

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Anonymous 7w

Always go talk to someone I’ve had anxiety for a long long time but what I will tell you is meds are never worth it it’s a cop out yes it makes things easier but it alters your brain chemistry for life and it can never return to normal so you just gotta put in work and talk to a therapist and learn

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1d

Hi so I’m a little late but I’ve been on Prozac aka fluoxetine for around 5-6 weeks, I just got bumped up to 40mg, if you don’t mind me asking what’s your dosage and how you feel on it? I haven’t been feeling much different with physical symptoms but mentally I do feel a bit better

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