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Article: Conventional medications for anxiety: what to know.(Healthy Living)
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- Momentum
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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It may be a different kind of "normal," but it's definitely normal to experience anxiety when faced with MS. "What's going to happen to me?" "How can I talk to my children?" "Should I disclose at work?" These are questions that would keep anyone up at night.
That said, it's important to distinguish between a normal reaction to a disturbing medical situation and symptoms of an anxiety disorder.
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"I'm a big believer in talking problems through with a professional," Sarah L. Minden, MD, a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, told Momentum. "But symptoms of anxiety can be so painful that a person can't function, in ...