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Anxiety Medicines

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Anxiety affects about eighteen percent of the United States’ population ages eighteen and older (Facts). Have you ever experienced an anxiety attack? Do you even know what an anxiety attack feels like? When suffering from an anxiety attack, your heart will race, and you may experience shortness of breath, nausea, sweating, dizziness, and fear. Many people that suffer from anxiety seek treatment; of those people, many take anti-anxiety medicines. These medicines include Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors, Benzodiazepines, and Tricyclic Antidepressants. These medicines can affect mood and have serious side effects . Some medicines, if taken often enough, can cause the patient to feel drunk. …show more content…

I have only used any kind of anti-anxiety medication once because I know that many of them have serious side effects such as addiction, drowsiness, dizziness, memory loss, nausea, depression, and many more; some medicines, if taken often enough, can even cause one to seem drunk (Smith). The one time I have ever taken any kind of anti-anxiety medication, I felt extremely lethargic and tired until it wore off. I decided that I would not take medicine to manage my anxiety again because there are other ways that do not involve feeling dizzy and sick. However, when prescribed a medicine, doctors observe the patient while on the medication, and they expect the patient to tell them if are experiencing any of the side effects that may come with their specific medicine, so many people believe that one should not worry about the side effects much. They believe that if someone is being monitored, then he or she can take an anti-anxiety medication without worrying about how their lives may be affected because the doctors will determine if the patient needs to adjust their prescription—or their lifestyle—due to the side effects that may be

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