Any one deal with mild anxiety?

I was once in a wreck on a highway and every since then I have fairly bad anxiety attacks when I get on the highway. I have considered taking medication but do not currently. What I do when we have to travel on the highway is practice breathing, take along a book or magazine to read to keep me desracted and just really focus on staying calm. I still don't like traveling on the highway but my anxiety is helped by doing those things when I have to.

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I am on medication for depression, and it helps with anxiety to. So I cannot answer you from life experience. But have you tried anything like yoga or meditation?

Kelly

I was actually diagnosed with some pretty severe anxiety problems when I was a young teenager. I was on medication for several years before I was switched from one medication to another and that second medication made me a bit sick. I decided that I couldn't take it anymore and just stopped taking it. I didn't have any withdrawl symptoms and actually function pretty well without meds.

Sometimes I do have periods of moderate anxiety but I try to work through it and just realize that it's just the anxiety talking and that I have to get over it. If you are contemplating going off the medication, I would speak to your doctor first and see what they think the best plan of action is.