Medication (advice on requesting with GP)

jemma09 · ‎25-05-2026

Hi everyone, I hope you’re staying well ☀️

I wanted to ask how one is able to look into medication as an additional option for treating an anxiety disorder. I have both a general anxiety disorder and OCD. I have been accessing Mind Spot and This Way Up for learning techniques and support.
However, it’s been a really challenging 3 months. My anxiety feel inescapable at times, and it can be so paralysing that it’s hard to eat and do anything. I don’t feel in control of it at all. The traditional therapies I’m doing or have used in the past, I’m struggling with.
I keep hoping I’ll just feel better but it hasn’t happened. It’s been a long 3 months. I’m pretty concerned that I’m still finding the anxiety debilitating for so long. This hasn’t happened before. I’ve never felt so hopeless in my diagnosis - like there’s no way out of what I’m going through.

I’ve always been pretty good at hiding my anxiety. But now even my manager at work has noticed, and I find my anxiety is interfering with my daily life and even work. It’s incredibly embarrassing.

I have a GP appointment on Wednesday. I can’t get in with my regular GP for over 2 months and I just know I can’t keep going like this. I can’t wait 2 months. I visited a different GP about 1.5 months ago and got a referral for psychology but they refused to refer me to a psychiatrist. My old psychologist retired so I don’t feel comfortable going through the ‘try a therapist’ until you find the right one, it would be really upsetting and exhausting explaining my issues over and over.

Will a GP be able to assist with medication for anxiety? Or will the refuse to even look into it or help?
I want to show and explain the evidence that I’ve been doing programs but they’re not enough. I’m struggling so much to stay present, my thoughts jump back to the disordered thinking.
I just want to get back to a baseline and be able to live again, and be myself.
I’m nervous for the conversation with the GP as I worried they will refuse to look into medication as an option. I’ve only met them a few times.

I’d appreciate hearing to your experiences on if you’ve been able to access medication, or any tips anyone has.
I really appreciate it 💜

- Jemma

white knight · ‎26-05-2026

Hi, welcome

I fully understand this and my anxiety peaked in 1987, I was 31yo then. I did get therapy for 12 months without medication plus I embarked upon self help means that I developed myself. (see links below) I conclude now that a mixture of many things is the best way to combat anxiety, not any one method. Also a psychologist is possibly better than a psychiatrist for this as many symptoms are environmentally impacting rather than psychiatrically related. So here is the mix thats ideal as I found it by order of importance-

Medical supervision from your GP
Medications prescribed
Referrals from your GP
Relaxation sessions
Therapy (one on one or group)
Environmental changes
People relationships marriage, toxic people, controlling people
Employment - workplace happiness, career change etc
Videos or film on anxiety and life skills
Activities- hobbies, sports, interests

As a whole package the above will have a great impact on your life for the better. The process of anxiety elimination (its possible as I proved) can be long, for me 22 years long for complete elimination but improvements early are noticeable.

https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/anxiety-how-l-eliminated-it/td-p/183873

https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/staying-well/guilt-the-tormentor/td-p/321604

https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/staying-well/the-best-praise-you-ll-ever-get/td-p/134999

Deep breathing has amazing quick effects, at work if you are anxious you can slow your heart rate down by doing that, 4 seconds in, hold for 4 seconds then exhale for 4 seconds. You can do that anywhere even while in others company. Finally google- Prem Rawat Maharaji youtube. Many videos including "all is well", "sunset" etc.

TonyWK