Managing Anxiety Without Medications

Have you tried CBD? I take CBD that has zero THC in it, so that’s available if you don’t want THC in it. It keeps my panic attacks at bay. If I do have them, they’re very brief and no where near as severe as they were before CBD. There’s no side effects to it and it’s non-psychoactive.

I have my boyfriend and he helps a lot he also helps me to get home if I panic he never pushes me too far but I feel bad because of my panic disorder and anxiety we haven't been able to have a real date in like 2 years we always just do at home date or we go grab takeout and bring it home. I want to get better and i get angry that I'm not better at the speed I think I should be getting there. I know it takes time and to chip away at it in baby steps I gotta keep remembering progress isn't linear and as long as I keep moving forward I'm not staying in place.

Has anyone tried hydroxizine for panic attacks? I have a rx but have yet to try it.

I have not tried any medications due to my underlying fear of the unknown side effects, but day by day I breath and try to focus on the "now" to help ground myself. It's hard but worth it

i relate to this, i tried Lexapro as my first medication and it made me SO incredibly anxious about the most mundane things. eventually i ended up on Effexor which is much better for me, and i also started therapy

When I first tried meds they all made me incredibly sick too. I tried so many and gave up for awhile. Eventually I got desperate and tried again. This time the doctor prescribed hydroxyzine along with sertraline (zoloft). I took them both at night. I think the hydroxyzine helped me sleep through the sickness maybe? I'd wake up starving but not sick like before. I stopped the hydroxyzine after 4-5 months, I think it gave my body time to adjust to the sertraline. I know this doesn't really answer your question but it wasn't until I found a medicine to take the edge off until I could see a difference with natural therapies.