1Wanting it to stop right now is not a character flaw, it is what anxiety does to a person. Saying the hurry out loud, instead of acting on it quietly, keeps it from making the decisions.
That urgency is the reason people creep a dose up, hop between supplements, and abandon anything slow before it has had a chance. Treating the hurry as part of what needs care, rather than arguing product by product, tends to go further. It also lets someone say what they actually want from treatment, which is often relief by a particular date and for a particular reason.
Islamic evidence
Suffering has truly afflicted me, but you are the Most Merciful of the merciful (Quran 21:83). Job says how bad it is before anything changes, and the saying of it is not held against him.
“Remember Job, when he cried to his Lord, ‘Suffering has truly afflicted me, but you are the Most Merciful of the merciful.’”
Qur'an 21:83
Psychological evidence
Among primary care patients, getting the treatment they had actually preferred was associated with better outcomes than being given the other one. So what a person believes will help is clinically relevant and not merely a matter of taste. It was an association found within a trial rather than a test of matching people to their preference, so it argues for asking rather than for handing the decision over.
Mergl R, Henkel V, Allgaier AK, Kramer D, Hautzinger M, Kohnen R, Coyne J, Hegerl U. (2011). Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · doi
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Why it works. A wish for fast relief that has been spoken about stops steering from underneath.
Feedback
none yet2When what is keeping you awake or on edge is your situation, a tablet can only do so much. That is not a failure of the medicine and it is certainly not a failure of you.
Noise, an unsafe home, night shifts, someone you are frightened of: none of these are altered by anything you swallow. The medicine may still be worth taking, since it can make a situation more bearable while it lasts. Just judge it against what it can actually do, and put some of your effort where the pressure is coming from.
Islamic evidence
Let him whose provision is restricted spend according to what God has given him (Quran 65:7). What is asked of you is measured against your circumstances, not against somebody else's.
“and let the wealthy man spend according to his wealth. But let him whose provision is restricted spend according to what God has given him: God does not burden any soul with more than He has given it- after hardship, God will bring ease”
Qur'an 65:7
Psychological evidence
In Dutch general practice, a stepped model that began with the least intensive option and moved up only when needed improved anxiety outcomes compared with usual care. That is a finding about the order in which help is offered, not about housing or shift work. It does suggest that leading with the strongest available thing is not what makes the difference.
Muntingh A, van der Feltz-Cornelis C, van Marwijk H, Spinhoven P, Assendelft W, de Waal M, Adèr H, van Balkom A. (2014). Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · doi
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Why it works. Medicine works on the body, not on the circumstances that keep the body braced.
When not to. If your situation includes someone who frightens you, that needs a person to help you plan rather than a change of tablet.