Long Acting Anxiety Meds - Can You Function In The Day?

[Powder]

My goal is to be off Xanax in two years. There is some research that shows a high correlation to dementia in later years if benzos are taken for over 15 years in the elderly population (long term use).

My goal is to train and work out daily until I get a natural release from that while tapering off my meds. I will eat according to a plan with a nutritionist, avoiding carbs and caffeine and alcohol, and junk food. Also, I will work less, and sleep and move about more, doing relaxation activities and meditation during the day. I may even opt for my dog to be a service animal/therapy animal. Whatever it takes.

While so much flashbacks and dreams of the long repressed traumas are constantly surfacing, I do not plan on worrying about medication. I just take it religiously and try not to up it. I'll take it as long as I must to get through the processing of traumas, but when the dust begins to settle on that, I have a plan to wean off with my doctor's help.

 

[Ladyghosthunter]

I went back into the hospital three weeks ago for a week because I had a nervous breakdown, UH-GIN. My husband and I were fighting about money and I had it.I couldn't keep a job and for the third time it was *low job performance* while on one of the jobs they permanently disabled my thumb from doing any production work. Nice, huh?
So I got blamed at and thought about leaving him because my husband went into full throttle abusive and we were physically fighting. After a while, I said I can't do this anymore and put myself into the hospital. I had the worst panic attack and it took four people to get me back into the hospital because I wouldn't go back in. The last time I was there, a patient there was 5150 and he scared me to the point that I asked the nurses to put him in a separate ward.
Anyway, the doctors put me on Abilify and Ambien to help with my situation and I feel IMMENSELY better than I was before. Although at times I feel slightly dizzy, I feel I can function a lot better emotionally than I used to.