Hi all,
I could really do with some advice about whether or not taking medication for my issues with anxiety might be helpful. To give a quick summary of my situation, 2.5 years ago I began to suffer with anxiety pretty badly, particularly social anxiety, and had some CBT for that and made a pretty good recovery over the next 6 months-year. Since then I have been nowhere near as bad as I was but I feel like I'm struggling a bit.
I would estimate that I'm probably moderately-very anxious 2 days a week, and then mildly for another 1-2 but then fine on other days (my anxiety levels seem to be fairly well linked to how social I am at the time, being on my own too much is bad for me). I know that my problems are really very mild compared with what many other people face, and with what I used to be like, but I'm just a bit fed up of feeling messed up every other day. I'm not convinved CBT would help any more because I dealt with the issues I had and now the anxiety is much more general.
My DSis is on long-term medication for anxiety and finds it very helpful and I know that my DB has also been prescribed medication for it in the past as well. I guess I'd just like to get some opinions from people that have or haven't found medication useful, and whether anyone had any suggestions. I'm kind of resigning myself to having anxiety issues for the long term, but I'd really rather minimise it all as much as possible.