This is a grounding technique. I call it stacks and is based on the fact most people can only hold six thoughts in their head before they have to lose one. That also is a big reason for anxiety. Groups of random thought but not large enough groups to make sense since other groups are interfering cutting them short and having them not make sense.
It works like this. You think of something like a horse and visualize all the kinds of horses you know. Painted horses, rocking horses, pictures of horses. When you can see this clear you add something different, say boats or flowers and try to keep as many of the horse as you can while you add on the boats. Keep adding things that are clear and make sense till the anxiety is gone. This is feedback that stimulates Seratonin to do it's job. The very thing you are increasing your SSRI to do. Not a substitute for the SSRI but a helper.
Short half life Benzo's have always been a common mistake because of the fear of addiction but because of the ups and downs they are more prone to abuse. I was addicted to Ativan for years before I switched to Valium so I could get off it.
Anxiety in the morning happens because you have switched to conscious thought from unconscious. Night is when your Hippocampus sorts and moves important thoughts from short term memory to long term. This sorting is also the reason for Eureka moments in the middle of the night. And also why some of them are not in the morning. If this sorting is badly interrupted you might not be able to remember something from the day before. Alcohol is a depressant because it causes seratonin to block information. It allows a person to sleep till it wears off but leaves a person looking for something that is missing. Street drugs do the same but with Dopamine instead of Seratonin. Morphine does the same which is why there is withdrawal from it.
It does take time to get better (called recovery) but it does happen.
Stacks works when other grounding techniques don't because it leaves no room for negative since a person can not hold that much neutral thought and the negatives at the same time. Since the neutrals in groups (horse) are related, the negative gets dropped. This is considered appropriate by the mind to do. Stacks doesn't leave room for doubt of a positive thought because there isn't one. They are all neutral thoughts (unless you are scared of horses or boats, pretty hard to be scared of flowers)
As for physical symptoms. They come from the pituitary glands direction and it comes from direction from the hypothalamus which comes from Hippocampus, the last two being where memory is stored. Accepting the symptoms as just facts of life for the time being will reduce these memory spots from stimulating the symptoms over time. They are only there because memory says they are supposed to be. It is wrong but it can only work on what it thinks is appropriate.
Davit
