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Old Jun 24, 2013, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Evening View Post
I only plan to use medication like that for situations that are causing me higher than usual anxiety, it wouldn't be an every day thing. I am not a fan of medication, and I definitely don't believe they solve anything. At most they help lessen the severity of something to make treating the condition more bearable. And I've definitely had my run ins with medications and their side affects.
This is what I use lorazepam for - those extreme situations. I have anxiety most of the time, but I have "emergency" medication to get me through those really tough times (eg. night before work/morning of work or when the anxiety is so bad that I can't control my breathing/having chest pains).

It's best to only use it for emergencies because you build up a tolerance and have to take more and more meds to get the same effect and run the risk of physical dependence (addiction).