How Do I Know If Add Medication Is Working?
How do you know if a medication, or treatment, is working? There are no blood tests to let you know your anxiety is improving. Symptoms are different in each person and there are many different types of anxiety. Symptoms can be severe in some people, creating devastation in their lives, and mild in others. Monitoring the effectiveness of treatment, therefore, is difficult and different for each person.
One way to measure the success (or non-success) of a medication is to keep a daily log....
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