Good luck! You can only give it a try.

I'm pretty tired of being medicated to deal with my anxiety also. I've been doing some reading on how to manage it without seeing a therapist - only because I can't afford one right now.

What I see over and over - exercise, green tea, deep breathing, water intake, and diet modification. I think I'll give these a try; please let us know how you're doing!!

Susan

Hi Terry,

I had severe anxiety due to Complex PTSD and I used a non-medication therapy that worked wonders for me. I posted it on the forum here. http://www.strokeboard.net/index.php?showtopic=23840

Hope it works out for you if not try what Jamie posted above, I did and I got to do more to see if I fit in for that to help me, not often, sometimes but I really think it's news of all the shootings and killings close to my home and on the TV daily that raises my anxiety most days!!

It's getting hard for me to see people hurt, shot, or killed even car wrecks I don't look or rubber neck I don't want to see dead bodies in the wreckage!!

I have been looking at what Jamie posted and am going to give it a try. Just started to look at it. Makes sense. It is definitely worth a try. I went browsing a little on the net to see if they had any groups in Ohio, but I think Jamie had allot of detail for me to get started. I just want to find different alternatives then medication and this looks like a good one to start. And ol' Edmund wrote the book 75 years ago and it's still around, so something must be working.

Terry,

You won't find any groups for this. 75 years ago, there were some 200 steps to this therapy and you had to take a workshop/course to learn it but then in more recent years, Edmund discovered that you could get the same result by targeting only 15 or 20 of the steps which provided an even better result eliminating distraction and allowing people to do it alone simply for the price of his book! (or by knowing me!) Anyway, everything you need is in that post or in the book so Rock On!