Dear Aiko:

I suggest you give Lexapro a chance to work. SSRI medications do work for a lot of people and I know a particular person that took Lexapro during a very stressful time in his life and it helped him, took the edge of his feelings, lowered his distress and he came off it after a few months. I took another SSRI, Zoloft for many years.

There is a close connection between thoughts and fear. It is when you think that you may be deathly sick that you feel the fear. When you don’t think of it, you… forget to be afraid, correct?

It is our thoughts that scare us. Sometimes we feel fear when no particular thought is present, but often a thought precedes the fear.

But a thought in itself is not dangerous.

Pay attention as you start thinking that you are sick- the thought itself, is it dangerous? If you stop fearing the thought itself, you will be less alarmed when that thought occurs to you once again.

Let me know if what I just wrote to you means anything to you, will you?

anita