Anxiety

[Guest guest]

Xanax saved my life.

I was very near contemplating suicide when a Dr. gave me xanax one Sunday

night after a 3-day panic attack. And it helped me work thru' the next

years of cognitive therapy; exercising more; examining my fears and working

on them.... It finally STOPPED the attacks and gave me some relief and

REST. I believe it's a life-saver. I also believe sometimes too much of it

is a bad thing.

We can be over-medicated with it - or UNDER-medicated with it.

I VOTE FOR XANAX in extreme anxiety. I believe it's saved many more lives

than it's ever harmed - Marsha

> What about Xanax? Anyone here take Xanax? I think I need something for

> anxiety...

[Guest guest]

At 12:32 PM 6/1/2009, you wrote:

Sometimes I wonder, with the

discussion of the bowel brain connection, if there is not some connection

with anxiety....kids with autism can also be anxious as well... something

to ponder...

It emphatically does.

ADD & ADHD run in my family. (I have a nephew who was on Ritalin for

years.)

As my gut issues became worse over the years, so did my emotional state.

I often became unhinged about things. I understand entirely what the moms

on www.pecanbread.com are talking

about when they say " my kid went into meltdown after eating

something illegal. "

Christmas dinner is a bit of a trial. I usually have one major meltdown

in the middle of preparing. The December after I went SCD, my mom was

concerned over the idea of serving this weird SCD food to family and

friends so I made parallel meals--the normal one and one for SCD.

I made up recipes as I went along. I made up recipes for cranberry sauce

and turkey dressing. I made up a recipe for pumpkin casserole, another

for a pumpkin cake.

After dinner, when everyone had left, Harry and I were sitting together.

The dinner went off beautifully*. No meltdowns or anything. I never

noticed. But Harry noticed and commented and then said, " I like SCD.

It's nice to have the woman I married back. "

That was the determining point: come hell or high water I would continue

with the diet.

(*What was interesting was that all the SCD food was eaten. The ordinary

food was left.)

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

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