can anxiety go away on its own without meds?

im sick of going to my gp and keep having to change my meds because i keep getting side effects can anxiety go away on its own

You’re asking two different questions:

1) Can anxiety go away without meds? YES!

2) Can anxiety go away on its own? Not likely.

The thing is that there are different ways to approach anxiety. It is possible to cure anxiety (if it has a practical rather than a physiological cause). Using a therapeutic approach, you can drastically alter either your lifestyle (to eliminate the anxiety) or your perception (to reduce your anxious response) and achieve great results, perhaps even better than you can with meds.

First, you have to develop an understanding of your anxiety and the causes of it. You may say, “money,” for example, but that’s not necessarily the ROOT of the issue. Dig deeper and “money” may become “people’s perception of your value as a person,” or “insecurity about failure” or “a burning need to fill a perceived hole in my life with goods and toys.” These kinds of revelations may take your therapy in a vastly different direction than might seem obvious.

Next, you have to look at the source of the problem. Let’s go with “money” again, as an example. Do you not earn enough? Do you spend too much on unnecessary things? Both of these things can be changed with behavioral modification. Changing jobs or advancing your education can attack the first problem; spending discipline and eliminating waste can control the second. For deeper problems, there are likely to be therapeutic and behavioral approaches as well. If the money example was a fear about others’ perception of you, you can improve how you’re perceived (through education, reading, a makeover, or just improving your circle of friends). If it’s insecurity about failure, then jamming through some small but important projects using a support team of family and friends can build your confidence. Also, there’s good reading about famous “failures” and the successes they earned (for example, Abraham Lincoln ran for office over 20 times, and won only one election…the last one :^). And if you’re trying to fill a hole in your life with a shopping addiction, that opens a whole other can of worms.

Most anxieties that aren’t strictly physiological (that is, caused by imbalances of chemicals in the brain) are caused by either one huge thing (“my marriage is failing”) or hosts of little, entangled things (“junior’s starting to act out, and I’m menopausal, and hubby’s not working because of a back injury, and the transmission failed, and AAAAARGGGH!!!”). In either case, meds may drastically help you to cope with the situation, especially if it cannot be changed in the short term or at all, but the more important approach to things that you can change is to, well, change them.

Consider getting therapist and starting to map out the issues in your life. If you can find the root of your anxiety, you may be able to make some massive changes in your life that eliminate the need for medication.

But don’t seduce yourself into believing that anxiety will just “go away.” It’s the belief in and hope for such magical cures to quotidian ills that make most people anxious in the first place. Nothing good in life comes without effort. If you want to eliminate meds…you’re going to have to do a lot of work to earn that.

Good luck, and hope you find a path to a better life! :^D

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