Pills and Drugs Do Not Cure Your Anxiety
A short YouTube monologue by Dr. Don Wood arguing that anxiety medications help manage symptoms but do not eliminate the underlying anxiety. He explains anxiety as learned from prior hurtful experiences that create a fear of the future, uses a romantic-relationship example, and recommends combining medication (to calm the brain) with active retraining of thought patterns (therapy or deliberate practice) while medicated.
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