Recovery

[gonefishing4ever]

Anyone on here actually recover completely from anxiety? If so, how?  I have internal tremors, twitches, spasms, insomnia, numbness and etc. Even if I recover from anxiety, will these symptoms remain? Would like to hear a success story......

[Alisonj29]

I was managing really really well for almost a year. I had a job, which is awesome because I have/had been on disability forever. I could go anywhere, cut back on meds, slept well and didnt have any anxiety attacks at all. Then a few things started triggering slight anxiety and it spiraled from there.
DJ873 has said it very well. We learn to manage. You may go years without it being an issue but a life without anxiety at all just wont happen. We need to train our brains to work positively with everything. CBT is an awesome tool if you have access to it.

[DJ873]

I agree with all the above, it is something we learn to manage. We know how to get there but we are learning how to get out with the least suffering possible. Like anything in life, acceptance is key. To accept today is what it is and thoughts can't hurt you is a huge step in beginning recovery. This disease is ours to own and we can use our sensitivities for good in other areas so it is our gift as well as our curse. I remind myself i choose where to focus my attention, i can do relaxation techniques and reduce the suffering as well.

[j17c27]

I was where you are a few months ago.  I had anxiety so extreme that I was going to kill myself because I have been dealing with it since I was 2 and being in high school right now...this time is already so freakin stressful and I had anxiety so bad that I actually tried killing myself 3 times becuase It was so awful.  I honestly never thought i would ever get better cause i had it so bad.  I finally sought out help from a psychiatrist who perscribed me Lexapro. It didnt do a thing.  I was once again even more let down than before that even drugs couldnt help me.  But then she switched me to Pristiq which is an antidepressant but in a matter of 2 weeks....my anxiety literally went from a 10 to about a 2.  I rarely ever have anxiety or anxiety symptoms.  Once in a while I will get shaky and nausious but its totally managable, where as before it was not at all.  I am so amazed...I went from so awful to so great in a matter of only 14 days, all thanks to the pristiq.  So there is help! I promise, this can go away.  

[SLadylani]

Anxiety is usually a symtom of something else. So recovery from anxiety means recover from the source causing anxiety. If you have generalized anxiety, your symtoms can be managed and you can get to a state in which you no longer experience symtoms. Some may consider that recovery. There are many medications and other treatments out there for anxiety to manage and treat symtoms that are all very successfull and get people back to leading normal productive lives.

[WendyLady03]

I actually asked the same question a while ago and got some really good answers. Here's the link....

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Anxiety/Does-anxiety-ever-go-away/show/1251525?personal_page_id=1277898#post_5751124

I think I was looking, like you, for a success story, for reassurance that one day this would all be over and I'd be back to normal. I wanted to hear that I was going to be cured 100%.

That's not the answer I got, and it scared me. I was in such a scary, dark place that I couldn't imagine living the rest of my life like that. The reassurance from people that it gets better did little to comfort me, but they were right. It's true, it does get better.

I don't think my anxiety will ever completely go away, but it's a million times better then it was. My panic attacks and bad anxiety moments are fewer and farther between, and they're not as strong anymore. And most of the time I feel perfectly normal, which is a feeling that I thought was gone forever. The numbness, internal shaking, twitches, insomnia....it all gets better, and it does go away eventually. Those things still happen to me once in a while if I get too stressed out or let me anxiety take over, but it's not all the time like it use to be.

So I don't know that anyone has completely recovered from anxiety, I get the feeling that it's something that's always going to be there, and it can pop up at anytime if you're not careful. But if you are careful and you take care of yourself, then yes I think you can achieve some sort of recovery.