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How to ask my new doctor for medication for my anxiety without sounding like an addict?
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Explain symptoms: The best way to obtain proper treatment of anxiety is to fully explain to your doctor all of the symptoms you are experiencing, how long you have had them, how they interfere with your daily functioning, how severe they are, whether they come and go and under what circumstances. It is also good to tell the doctor what treatments you have had in the past and how the treatment was or was not helpful.
Answered 4/19/2014
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