9 Most Effective Anxiety Treatments
For the interactive version of this infographic, click here.
1,303 people have spoken. Anxiety is the biggest community at CureTogether, and here’s what these brave people have to say.
The top right square of the infographic above shows the most popular, most effective treatments for anxiety. Exercise, therapy, breathing, meditation, yoga, avoiding caffeine, relaxation, massage – the non-invasive, simple alternative answers seem to work very well.
Drugs such as Alprazolam and Lorazepam were also reported as effective, but not as many people had tried them.
If you have anxiety, does this agree with your experience?
Where did this data come from? CureTogether members have been anonymously sharing symptoms and treatments for almost 2 years now. To thank everyone for their contributions, we’re releasing this result back to the community for free.
This is the fourth in a series of infographics we’ll be publishing over the coming weeks. Stay tuned and please give your feedback or thoughts on this result in the comments below – or write to me at alexandra@curetogether.com.
Please tweet, blog, or pass this along to anyone who can benefit or is interested in Anxiety. Thank you!
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June 2nd, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Do you determine the effectiveness from your write-in/members comments or a combination of that and clinically-validated research?
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Hi Joe,
Thanks for your question! Effectiveness is rated by patients – we have correlated it with clinical research in some cases on the blog (in looking at co-morbidities) but haven’t yet incorporated that throughout the site.
Be well,
Alex
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:12 am
I love what you are doing here! This kind of documentation is so rarely seen on the web. Thank you for the service you are providing us.
July 27th, 2010 at 9:46 am
When I first started having panic attacks, I definitely found that Lorazepam and eliminating caffeine were the two things that helped the most.
August 10th, 2010 at 2:53 am
What I find a welcome result is that most of those methods that are popular and effective are also natural and inexpensive.
November 29th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
What were the results for relationship with animals? A good percentage uses it, but it is not on the graph. I know it helps me (besides Tranxene). However pets are expensive.
November 29th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Hi Merry,
Thanks for your question! Spending time with animals is one of the unlabeled dots in the top right quadrant, so it is definitely reported as a popular and effective treatment. For live results of this chart, click here – http://curetogether.com/anxiety/ig/treatment-effectiveness-vs-popularity
Thanks and be well,
Alexandra
October 7th, 2011 at 9:43 am
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