My young adult son suffers from anxiety,counseling not helping.How else can I help?

Answer 1

Take your son to a psychiatrist. There are medications available to help with anxiety for the time being, and continue the counseling to work on finding the source of anxiety naturally.

Answer 2

I suffer from the same things and counseling did help but not totally. This was a few yrs ago and most shrinks would give you clonipin or xanax. They worked great. You could do something that you would normally be tearing your guts out over with no sweat, blindfolded! Then the Docs noticed that a small number or people got addicted their anti-anxiety meds. I never did and could make my script last 2 wks longer than necessary. It irked me when they didn't want to prescribe meds that worked anymore out of fear of being sued for faciliting an addiction or something. Now they tend to want to put you on "anti-psychotics" they are supposed to do the same thing with no risk of addiction. I'm on one called Depakote. It's OK and it helps a bit but not like the others and the results take DAYS to start. With the others it was minutes. Someone here earlier said Paxil. That one is good because it's an antidepressant and anti anxiety med. That helped me some also. Finally and what I'm about to say I don't advise just saying I have to do what I have to do to handle my illness. Since I no longer have the most effective drugs ever created for anxiety disorders, I find that when I start pacing like a caged tigress, my heart is pounding, the anxiety is unbearable and I can't wait 2 days for it to stop...a couple of glasses of wine or 1 good stiff drink mellows me right out. LOL.

Answer 3

He is not simply anxious. He is anxious about something. You may not find out what it is by asking him directly, but you can help him focus and deal with his problems with several long conversations. Is his job going well? Is he having money problems? How is his love life? He has some overwhelming problem that he needs to focus on and deal with, something that he probably is accepting as a fact of life and not looking for a solution. To go for counciling is to assume that the councilor knows more than you do. Quite often, this is not the case. Some pill may cure the symptom of anxiety, but the root cause will remain and become worse. He has to recognize the problems in his life and deal with them.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Have you tried Paxil? It's pretty mild for an anti-anxiety medication, but you have to MAKE SURE he takes it regularly. It's still unsure how save these medicines are for teens and young adults, so use caution.
There are also certain schools you can enroll him in.

Answer 6

Finding the right medication its very important. It may take a combination of medications. The frustrating part is that it takes a lot of trial and error to find the one that works. Also, all psychiatrists/counselors are not created equal. Someone I care about has similar problems and nothing really helped until she received cognitive behavioral therapy. Now on the right track

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

Anxiety is a complex combination of emotions that includes fear, apprehension and worry, and is often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, nausea, chest pain and/or shortness of breath.

Anxiety is often described as having cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components (Seligman, Walker & Rosenhan, 2001). The cognitive component entails expectation of a diffuse and uncertain danger. Somatically the body prepares the organism to deal with threat (known as an emergency reaction); blood pressure and heart rate are increased, sweating is increased, bloodflow to the major muscle groups is increased, and immune and digestive system functions are inhibited. Externally, somatic signs of anxiety may include pale skin, sweating, trembling, and pupillary dilation. Emotionally, anxiety causes a sense of dread or panic and physically causes nausea, and chills. Behaviorally, both voluntary and involuntary behaviors may arise directed at escaping or avoiding the source of anxiety. These behaviors are frequent and often maladaptive, being most extreme in anxiety disorders. However, anxiety is not always pathological or maladaptive: it is a common emotion along with fear, anger, sadness, and happiness, and it has a very important function in relation to survival.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most popular and effective form of psychotherapy used to treat anxiety. The goal of the cognitive-behavioral therapist is to decrease avoidance behaviors and help the patient develop coping skills. This may entail:

Challenging false or self-defeating beliefs.
Developing a positive self-talk skill.
Developing negative thought replacement.
Systematic desensitization, also called exposure (used for agoraphobia and OCD mainly).
Providing knowledge that will help the patient cope. (For example, someone who suffers from panic may be informed that fast, prolonged, heart palpitations are in themselves harmless).
Unlike prescription medication, the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy depends on various subjective factors, such as therapist competence. In addition to conventional therapy, there are at-home cognitive-behavioral programs sufferers can use as part of their treatment.

Prescription medication

The acute symptoms of anxiety are most often controlled with anxiolytic agents such as benzodiazepines. Diazepam (valium) was one of the first such drugs. Today there are a wide range of anti-anxiety agents that are based on benzodiazepines, although only two have been approved for panic attacks, Klonopin and Xanax. All benzodiazepines may induce dependency, and extended use should be carefully monitored by a physician, preferably a psychiatrist. It is very important that once placed on a regimen of regular benzodiazepine use, the user should not abruptly discontinue the medication.

Some of the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) have been used with varying degrees of success to treat patients with chronic anxiety, the best results seen with those who exhibit symptoms of clinical depression and non-specific anxiety or general anxiety disorder concurrently. Beta blockers are also sometimes used to treat the somatic symptoms associated with anxiety, especially the shakiness of "stage fright."

Many scientists believe that the benzodiazepines and other antianxiety drugs are greatly overprescribed and potentially addictive. The addicitive nature of the benzodiazepine class became apparent in the mid 1960's when Valium (Diazepam), the first drug in the class to win FDA approval, resulted in thousands of people who quickly showed the classic symptoms of addiction when used for more than a week or two consistently.

The most addictive of the benzodiazepines appears to be Xanax due to its rapid onset and short half life in the blood stream. Xanax also has the dubious distinction of being the only benzodiazepine that often requires hospitalization for discontinuation as a precaution against dangerous and sometimes fatal seizures as part of the detoxification process. No other medications in this class have shown this fatal side effect, although abrupt discontinuation of virtually any benzodiazepine can result in cravings, stomach pains, cramps, increased anxiety, insomnia and other signs of withdrawal.

Consult a Clinical Psychiatrist and he will tell you what to do. Meds provide faster onset of action than other methods.