Re: How did you know it was time to take medication?
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How did you all know it was time to start taking medication?
Anxiety should be treated as soon as possible as the longer it is allowed to fester the harder it can become to control. Anxiety (also depression) are the emotional manifestations of an underlying brain deficit, atrophy of parts of the two hippocampal regions of the brain caused by high brain stress hormone levels killing brain cells and inhibiting the growth of new ones. Antidepressants work by stimulating the growth of new cells (neurogenesis). It is the new cells and the interconnections they form which produce the therapeutic response. For a more detailed explanations see: Depression and the Birth and Death of Brain Cells (PDF) and How antidepressant drugs act. The cognitive/behavioural/mindfulness therapies also work by stimulating hippocampal neurogenesis.
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