Anxiety Road Podcast

Having to live with anxiety symptoms is not easy. I can't speak for you but I have sometimes been shamed, embarrassed or felt hopeless after a bad bout with those rascals. My self-medication of choice is food. I kinda have to deal with that because it isn't an effective way to deal with the problem. I've been around this bend before so I know I can do it.   Will I? Probably.   You see my symptoms are flaring up again. Big time.   And yes, I do breathe.    Go out side and walk a bit. Fill my head with music so I can get from point A to B.   Most times it works, sometimes it does not. I used to think that self-medication was a bad but understandable idea.  I’ve kinda moved to the center of “it depends, and what are your other options?”   So in this episode, the questions that I've asked myself and maybe you should consider is what are the benefits and liabilities of self-medication?   There are the obvious ones   Stopping or hiding symptoms A rest period Ability to focus Relief And the cons   Dosage, ho