What helps you with anxiety and depression?
Do you prefer medication or therapy? I was referred to somewhere last year but they got me on some medicine before therapy so I gave up. I wanted to talk to someone. Not take medicine.
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PhoenixPhail · M
I realize that anytime I'm either anxious or depressed, I'm not living in the present moment. I'm either in the past or the future - my abuse history being a link to depression, and my fear of what's to come, being a link to anxiety. So, the thing that helps me with either, is finding ways to return myself to the present.
Breathing exercises have been good. Also, walks in nature. When I get into nature and appreciate the beauty that surrounds me, I find it helps to connect me with my own nature. Appreciation of things, in general, helps. Making lists of positive aspects of my life, is a good exercise, as well as not focusing on the negative aspects.
There are times when I'm so far from the present, only medication helps. I have prescriptions for a couple of anti-anxiety meds, but I take them as infrequently as possible. It's better to adjust myself naturally than artificially. Although, sometimes, medication is the only thing that works.
Breathing exercises have been good. Also, walks in nature. When I get into nature and appreciate the beauty that surrounds me, I find it helps to connect me with my own nature. Appreciation of things, in general, helps. Making lists of positive aspects of my life, is a good exercise, as well as not focusing on the negative aspects.
There are times when I'm so far from the present, only medication helps. I have prescriptions for a couple of anti-anxiety meds, but I take them as infrequently as possible. It's better to adjust myself naturally than artificially. Although, sometimes, medication is the only thing that works.