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	The Phobia King's Home Page   |   home -What worked for me-   |   Links back -What worked for me- Perhaps the best way to start out this page, is by stating what didn't work for me. Drugs: I was prescribed a drug called Valium for anxieties and anxiety attacks for 14 years, but this just caused addiction and a crutch, and never dealt with the cause. Also keep in mind too that back in the early seventies, many doctors did not have much insight for the psychological based anxiety, nor how to treat it other then with primarily drugs like Valium, Lithium, anti depressants, and so forth. Also, the side effects to some of these anti depressants have equal to or greater side effects than the anxieties attacks themselves, even death possibilities for a lot of them. Things I found that paved the way to deal with and over come anxieties and agoraphobia. Some of them are: Doctor put my on a special diet, vitamin regimen along with amino acids for chelation. This was to replace the vitamins drained by the attacks, and the chealtion was to remove the damaging chemicals put into the blood stream every time I experienced the stress response/anxiety. Professional conventional cognitive therapy, which was almost useless, didn't help much at all. However, the training classes in such areas as assertiveness training, parenting, anger management, and sexual orientation did. I read a books like “More Help For Nerves” by Karen Weeks which gave me some insight as to how the body is fatigue by the stress response/anxiety attach, “Unlimited Power” by Anthony Robbins Home study courses like “Attacking Anxiety” by Lucida Basset and put out by Midwest Research Company. Nature herbs and teas for relaxations as well as exercise and relaxation/meditative tapes. There were many more, but these are a few that worked for me, but the main thing that made all of these collectively work, is the effort I put into getting over it. Most professionals talk about dealing with it, I wanted get over it, and I did. And so can you. About the author