Rodney

There are a lot of ways to moderate anxiety without pills. They just take time and effort. That's why they're not more popular.

Yoga is one way, believe me. Buddhist meditation is another. Both are proven to relieve stress. If you don't have much time, take a few sessions of a yoga course to learn the basic, buy a tape you can use at home to walk you through the exercise, and continue with it.

Another thing that works is basic exercise. Why do you think there are so many fanatic runners? They get high off the endorphins. When I had a particularly stressful job, weight training before work helped get me through the day and long meetings much better than I would have otherwise.

This isn't what you want to hear, but except as a temporary measure during therapy, pills aren't the answer for anxiety. They just lead to more pills.

I just read that any any given time, 44 percent of _all_ Americans are on at least one prescription med. 44 percent! Something is truly wrong with the way we've been taught to perceive health and healing, and the drug companies have a lot to do with it.