taf
02-06-06, 15:23
Hi, guys! And a great good morning to all! Good news...made it through a 1 hour "jazzercise" exercise class 2x this week. A wonderful neighbor who is the crossing guard at my child's school told me about it, and I finally said, "What the heck...take a risk...talk to people, and try it...if you fall on your face, oh well!" It was a hoot. The lady who taught it was a former chorus dancer, and was in her early 60's, and did she boogie around up there! I thought, "Hey Taf, get with it! If this gal can, you can too!"
Now, to my "Why do" thought for the day.....Why do some find it so hard to approach things from an anxiety/panic standpoint...Let me explain....Last week, my brother in law came over, and out of the blue told us that his wife is now on NINE different meds for some headaches...zoloft in a.m., and that jazzed her out of sleeping at night, so then Elavil in p.m. to sedate, and a list of anti anxiety meds, and now narcotic based pain meds (gulp) mixed in, and the latest creepy thing...a prednisone round (??) for he thinks the pain???? Mixed with a hit parade of experimental cocktails which, including one mainly used for epilepsy, are being "tested" for use in headaches. Yikes. Massive tests at neurologists have revealed no physical cause for pain, and this all started when she took on a supervisory position at a local retail outlet. She fears large groups of people (some social anxiety components?) and has had issues with changing her familiar surroundings (i.e., fear of leaving on holidays).
I said, "Have you approached this from an internal point of view...i.e., perhaps anxiety/panic related syndromes are aggravating the situation and could be helped by CBT and other supportive measures such as group therapy with other anxiety suffers, etc?"
WEll....LET me tell you was that met by a big BLAH!!!! "This is all physical, there is no anxiety....blah blah blah blah" I said, "She is being treated for symptoms which are not going away..Now the headaches are becoming so debilating, that she just wants to avoid all social contact (the meds are not properly addressing the anxiety, I think, and need to be reevaluated from that standpoint...ameliorating the anxiety first, the pain is a symptom of that, and an avoidance mechanism from painful anxiety...my 2 cents) The meds are making her worse. She needs supportive therapies, any WHY is society so afraid to say someone has the big A word...anxiety????? That is a first step of taking hold of your own treatment to recognize a beast, and work with the doctors, not against them catatonically medicated to the point where your brain is so fuzzy that you can't make any decisions![:O]
Well, that's my soap box for the day.
Hooray for this site and the people who are not afraid to have a hand in their treatment which leads to recovery!
As we think, we feel.
Love to all, Taf
Now, to my "Why do" thought for the day.....Why do some find it so hard to approach things from an anxiety/panic standpoint...Let me explain....Last week, my brother in law came over, and out of the blue told us that his wife is now on NINE different meds for some headaches...zoloft in a.m., and that jazzed her out of sleeping at night, so then Elavil in p.m. to sedate, and a list of anti anxiety meds, and now narcotic based pain meds (gulp) mixed in, and the latest creepy thing...a prednisone round (??) for he thinks the pain???? Mixed with a hit parade of experimental cocktails which, including one mainly used for epilepsy, are being "tested" for use in headaches. Yikes. Massive tests at neurologists have revealed no physical cause for pain, and this all started when she took on a supervisory position at a local retail outlet. She fears large groups of people (some social anxiety components?) and has had issues with changing her familiar surroundings (i.e., fear of leaving on holidays).
I said, "Have you approached this from an internal point of view...i.e., perhaps anxiety/panic related syndromes are aggravating the situation and could be helped by CBT and other supportive measures such as group therapy with other anxiety suffers, etc?"
WEll....LET me tell you was that met by a big BLAH!!!! "This is all physical, there is no anxiety....blah blah blah blah" I said, "She is being treated for symptoms which are not going away..Now the headaches are becoming so debilating, that she just wants to avoid all social contact (the meds are not properly addressing the anxiety, I think, and need to be reevaluated from that standpoint...ameliorating the anxiety first, the pain is a symptom of that, and an avoidance mechanism from painful anxiety...my 2 cents) The meds are making her worse. She needs supportive therapies, any WHY is society so afraid to say someone has the big A word...anxiety????? That is a first step of taking hold of your own treatment to recognize a beast, and work with the doctors, not against them catatonically medicated to the point where your brain is so fuzzy that you can't make any decisions![:O]
Well, that's my soap box for the day.
Hooray for this site and the people who are not afraid to have a hand in their treatment which leads to recovery!
As we think, we feel.
Love to all, Taf