Medicine-Free Treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Panic Attacks

Don't Take Zoloft, Prozac, Effexor, or Valium:

When I was first diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Panic Attack Disorder, my doctor didn't even send me to a therapist to talk out my issues. Instead, he gave me a prescription for Zoloft.

Typically, doctors will admit that the cause of GAD is unknown, but one theory is that GAD is caused by an imbalance of serotonin in the brain. Zoloft "may help" to correct this balance. 

That's right. Zoloft might help correct the theoretical imbalance of serotonin in your brain, which might be the cause of anxiety.

Yeah. Sounds sketchy, doesn't it? But if you're anything like me - and most other people - you'll take your doctor's advice because he's a professional, and because you don't have any better ideas. All you want is relief.

So I took my Zoloft. For the first three weeks, as my doctor had warned me, I felt no changes. On the fourth week, however, the effects of the medicine kicked in. Zoloft did, indeed, stop my anxiety. However, Zoloft also stopped all my other emotions. I no longer felt happiness or sadness, anger or fear. I couldn't cry, even if something seemed like it should be sad.

And, worse than all of this combined, Zoloft took away my creativity. I realized this one night as I sat down to write a paper. I couldn't form a sentence. The words got clogged up in my head. All my thoughts were shuffled around. I couldn't create a simple sentence because all my thoughts were confused and jumbled. That night, I stopped taking Zoloft.

Zoloft made me a walking zombie with no emotion and no creativity. Next, I tried Prozac.

Prozac carries a risk they list right on their warning label. Some people who take Prozac for emotional disorders run the risk of increased suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Because of the alterations Prozac makes in the basic chemical levels in your brain, Prozac can make you feel suicidal. Doctors heavily warn the family members of patients taking Prozac to carefully monitor the patient for signs of suicidal tendencies.