327: Should I Take Medication For My Anxiety?
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“If I just find the right medication, then I’ll finally feel okay…” Does that thought sound familiar?
Obviously I’m not a doctor. So I’m not giving medical advice. And I would never, ever say you should stop taking your medication, or that it’s bad for you to take medication.
There is a time and place for medication, and especially if you can’t function and medication helps, use it. So many moms struggling with anxiety feel stuck in this cycle—believing that medication is their only option, yet still feeling like something is missing.
Today, we’re having an honest conversation about anxiety medication—what it can do, what it can’t do, and why healing anxiety at the root goes far beyond a prescription.
By the end of this episode, you’ll understand:
Why medication alone isn’t the solution to healing anxiety.
The real reason anxiety keeps coming back, even on medication.
What you can do to actually heal at the root and find lasting peace.
The truth is, medication doesn’t fix anxiety—it only manages symptoms.
Healing anxiety at the root through subconscious reprogramming is the fastest, most effective way to experience true freedom. Medication is just a numbing source. The truth is, addressing anxiety with medication often merely alleviates symptoms rather than tackling the underlying issues. To truly heal anxiety, you need to identify and eliminate the root causes, which often lie in the unconscious mind, where your emotional triggers originate.
Let’s talk about some of the myths surrounding anxiety and medication
Myth #1: “I have a chemical imbalance, so I need medication.”
This is one of the most widely accepted beliefs, but science has never actually proven that anxiety is caused by a “chemical imbalance.”
Anxiety isn’t something that happens to you because your brain is broken—it’s a learned pattern, a response to trauma, stress, and subconscious beliefs that are keeping you stuck. Anxiety is not because of a chemical imbalance, but because of stored data that keeps the subconscious mind reading things as threatening and dangerous that are not threatening and dangerous. And no amount of medication is going to get the subconscious mind to change that data.
Medication may alter brain chemistry temporarily, but it doesn’t address the subconscious wiring that created the anxiety in the first place. Like I said above, it will not touch the data and the way the subconscious mind is reading all the stored information that it keeps filtering out threats and dangers for you.
Myth #2: “Medication will make my anxiety go away.”
Medication can numb the intensity of anxiety, but it doesn’t actually make it disappear. Something that people say over and over again when they are on medication, is they still feel anxiety. They are still anxious. And they use it to manage the anxiety. So medication doesn't’ take the anxiety away, it just kind of numbs it a bit and makes it tolerable.
Many moms find themselves needing higher doses over time, switching medications, or feeling like they’re still struggling—just in a slightly more manageable way.
Imagine if instead of just coping with anxiety, you could actually rewire your brain so anxiety didn’t control your life anymore.
Myth #3: “If I stop taking medication, my anxiety will come back worse.”
If you don’t address the root cause, then yes—stopping medication might make anxiety feel even stronger.
This is because the subconscious patterns that create anxiety are still there, waiting to surface the moment medication is removed.
But when you heal the root cause, anxiety doesn’t have a reason to “come back.”
Rewire the subconscious mind. Anxiety is a learned response, which means it can be unlearned.
Clear out stored trauma and old belief patterns. Your brain is holding onto past experiences that keep triggering anxiety. Releasing them creates freedom.
Retrain your nervous system. Your body has been stuck in survival mode. Healing allows it to return to a natural state of calm.
If you’re tired of feeling like you need medication to function but still don’t feel free, there’s another way.
I’m hosting a free class where I’ll walk you through exactly how to heal anxiety at the root level—so you don’t have to spend your life just managing it.
If you want to learn more about how you can clear anxiety more automatically by rewiring how the mind is working and processing things, go to my website www.meganhillukka.com where you can click on a link to register for my free training, where I will show you what you need in order to do this.
