• _number8_@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    anxiety advice sucks ass as well. proper medication is all that meaningfully worked for me, not fucking yoga or a healthy breakfast or somehow outthinking my brain cooking itself

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      1 year ago

      Indeed. It doesn’t help that anxiety has multiple causes, some of which overlap and compound each other. I couldn’t have gotten a handle on my anxiety without medication, but in my case I also couldn’t have done it without a great therapist who took the time to get to know me and help me learn the various factors that were contributing to my particular stew of neuroses. Telling me to just breathe or exercise or meditate would not have done shit for me although ironically all of those things are part of my routine now but only after a long road of trial and error and practice.