Dear Sesha:

I am not a health care professional, and neither are you. You may want to see one in order to receive a proper diagnosis (maybe panic disorder, maybe Generalized Anxiety Disorder, maybe something else). The benefit of receiving a proper diagnosis is about receiving a treatment fitting the diagnosis. There are psychotherapists that are very scientific about their work, they start with a diagnosis, develop objectives, a treatment plan and evaluate progress along the way.

It doesn’t take a professional to notice that you suffer from significant anxiety. If a person is not able to lower one’s anxiety by practicing mindfulness, aerobic exercise, and other self-care practices, then psychiatric medications are necessary. So, I hope that you schedule mindfulness etc., into your daily schedule and persist in serious practice for a few months, see if you experience improvement after a few months. Re-consider medications if you don’t manage to be persistent in the practice and see progress.

What I noticed in your earlier post today, the one before last, is your anger, an understandable emotion and a natural one. Is anger behind the “intense moaning” that you mentioned?

anita