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[AnxietyGirl222]

Hi All,

I've just joined Beyond Blue after starting anxiety medication for the first time last night. I suffer from CHRONIC GAD and possibly OCD. I was terrified to take the medication after reading all of the horrible side effects online, but today I am feeling calm for the first time since June. I am so excited to see how this goes.

I am looking forward to contributing to posts and to helping out when I can.

Speak to you all soon

x

[Teacher9]

Hi,

It's great your feeling better, always give the medication a chance as nothing works overnight. Soon enough you will feel your normal self 🙂

[Guest_322]

Hi Anxiety Girl,

A warm welcome 😊

I'm glad to hear your meds seem to be helping with the anxiety. That's really good to hear.

Looking forward to all your future posts!

Dottie x

[MarkJT]

AnxietyGirl, yes you may have heard a lot of horror stories about medication but like lots of others things, you never hear about the positives. Society just about all the time focuses on the negatives and the bag things, i.e. horror stories on meds, but never on the positives.

I am hear to tell you that after a bad start to meds, i am now happily taking a different kind and wouldn't change a thing about them.

Somethings just take time and patience and hopefully you continue to take well to what you are on now.

Awesome that you have posted as well, great stuff.

Mark.

[Bookgirl]

Without my medication i would be lost. I had a severe depressive episode when i was a teenager and without the meds i wouldn't be here. They don't work for everybody and i have had bad side effects on other things but when you find one that works for you it can really help you just get through one day at a time.