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Any tips for anxiety and depression when trying to get off Xanax?

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  • #188047
    Anonymous
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    Dear Mimi:

    Good to read from you again. My tips:

    1. You mentioned not wanting to add to your husband’s work stress by “crying so often”- if you practice self control over your expression of your emotions, and not cry in front of him often (if at all), it will increase your confidence in your ability to choose your behavior and so, your anxiety will lessen. (Will benefit your husband as well, of course)

    2. Regular aerobic/ other exercise will help, incorporate into a daily routine.

    3. Meditation/ Mindfulness.

    4. This is the exercise that helped me what I got off many years of Klonipin use, the evening I considered going back on it: as I was panicking, I imagined removing myself from the part of my brain that was panicking and observing that panicking part of me from a calm place in my brain. I was not ALL panicking, only part of me. Observing the part-of-me that was panicking made it possible for me to not go back on Klonipin. I haven’t been back since that evening, October 2013.

    anita

    #188827
    Mimi
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    anita,

    Thank you for the advice.  I printed it to keep consulting it.

    I hope this message will post.  I’ve been trying for two days.  Husband updated our Java, so maybe it will work this time!

    Thank you again!

    Mimi

    p.s.  Just realized that maybe I should’ve posted this in the “Emotional Mastery” section.  I never know where to put things.  Sometimes they seem to fall under multiple topics.

    #188881
    Anonymous
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    Dear Mimi:

    You are welcome. I think it was a couple of days ago that there were technical problems with the website and I too was unable to successfully submit my posts for a few hours.

    To me, it doesn’t matter where you post, under what category. I don’t pay attention to the categories really.

    anita

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