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rippleinstillwater
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Who here has anxiety?
I've had social anxiety my whole life, something I think that stems a lot from my childhood, but about a year ago a traumatic incident triggered me very deeply. I went through a period of about 6 months wherein I just isolated myself from pretty much everyone and hula hooped and worked on my book. It was hard for me to go out in public, let alone work, though I did hold a job at this time.
I've since recovered quite a bit and also started dating someone who suffers from anxiety, albeit not at severe as mine. I have panic attacks about 3-4 times a week during bad periods and about once a week during good periods. When I was going through that really tough six months, I had panic attacks multiple times a day.
I'm curious to see if anyone else here suffers from this terrible illness.
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I have anxiety pretty bad. For a while I was on ativan during the day, halcion and klonopin at night and a handful or various anti psychotics. I stopped taking all of them and the rebound anxiety has been kicking my ass and I dropped the scripts about 6 months ago now.
I admit it got way better when my girl and I were together. Now that we broke up I've been having attacks like crazy and it sucks. I've been self medicating with weed and krratom and decided to order etizolam again. A little disappointed in myself about the etizolam but I'd rather take it for a little while than be completely non functional.
What's your book about?
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I hate anxiety, I probably still have it although its nowhere near as bad as it used to be. Last time I took LSD I had the thought & then took on the belief " anxiety is a by-product of an overly active imagination" ever since then my anxiety has vastly improved.
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Re: Anxiety [Re: caman]
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I could giva ya a hundred, or ten thousand, wonderful gems - and you'll get 'em too, if you wan'em, and you'll appreciate 'em all the more for having got them . . . & they are there. . . search for the unusual, beautiful gems. . .
but I will just say, & common as plain sight, but be patient. . like I say there are a million, but be patient & have faith in yourself. . spend time & learn how to concentrate, how your energy works & be strong, how to be at perfect health in nature, then perfect peace & etc., in other life would be next & ya, follow your heart, don't worry, but investigate anything you need to and ya if anything arises, be patient, everything passes - everything is new, as well, - and best perhaps is that everything settles. . . life settles out as we grow older, we settle in - but also we choose, & we can experience more settled levels of peace, if that's our wish or goal.
talk to ya, Jake
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I just made a post about anxiety tell me what you guys think
Anxiety = over avoiding all your fears.
Exposure = root solution to cure anxiety
Medication = temporary crutch to avoid true exposure
Which basically means in order to get over the anxiety, you gotta be overwhelmed with the anxiety for a little bit for it to dip back down.
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Bitter Cactus said: I just made a post about anxiety tell me what you guys think
Anxiety = over avoiding all your fears.
Exposure = root solution to cure anxiety
Medication = temporary crutch to avoid true exposure
Which basically means in order to get over the anxiety, you gotta be overwhelmed with the anxiety for a little bit for it to dip back down.
Very accurate in my opinion!!
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Welcome back Bitter Cactus. (edit- oh this isn't the pub, is it? ) It's crazy to me you're so successful at coping with anxiety given your medications. I like coffee, but even 2 cups seems like too much for me sometimes.
Also welcome OP!
I would say I have uncomfortable anxiety 90% of the time. 5% of the time it is severe. Once in a while I feel relaxed. Like right before falling asleem, and little bursts here and there.
Drugs sometimes help, but they never get rid of it. I feel like sedatives do cover up some of the most cringe-inducing moments of wanting to crawl out of my skin, but they don't really aid in the easing of the burden that such stress puts on me. Taking a downer will just cover up the feeling, where the damage to my heart and soul will be ignored. That is kinda dangerous.
Weed kinda does help. It will sometimes be anxiety inducing, but it seems more easy to control it, and I am able to do the things I know I need to do to manage my anxiety (mainly I hacky sack alone and go jogging and hiking, sometimes with my dog). I have gotten better at controlling my anxiety as I've got older, but at this rate I really doubt it will ever cease to be a part of me. I've just come to accept it I've been doing my best to make life work anyway.
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Weed is like the worst for anxiety IMO.
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Lot of people find that it helps for a while, then they hit a wall of anxiety. I started using other drugs when I hit this wall, alcohol to smooth out the edges, then opiates. I never really could really handle stimulants that well, but I did my fair share. I liked good cocaine because it was over quick and I would (rarely) feel relaxed after, but no more of that for me please thankyou.
Once I realized how bad opiates are started to smoke a lot more weed again to cope with the symptoms of withdrawal. The anxiety was there, but I powered through that wall in an explosion of defiant potsmoke and on the other side I realized that it was totally manageable using the techniques I learned being a super anxious person since forever.
If only I had learned to manage my anxiety sooner, and realized that it is just something I have to deal with sometimes, I would have never attempted to self-medicate my anxiety. It just wasn't worth it to me, and I'm still suffering from it every day. Weed doesn't fix anxiety, but we've learned to live with eachother. I just smoke tiny bits, and don't let it discourage me from getting out there. For me this is the only drug I have found where this is possible. It doesn't make me feel gross, and allows me to live my life.
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Thanks for all of your replies, everyone. Anxiety is a huge part of my life and has been since the mushroom trip when I realized what that edge-of-a-cliff feeling in my stomach was. I don't take any medication aside from the very occasional Xanax (and only .5 of a bar at most) because I honestly don't find it helpful unless I'm in the middle of panic attack. Even then--benzos just shut off my emotions, and make me feel so damn empty. I've contemplated suicide very seriously while on them, because I didn't care about anything. So I stick to weed and chamomile tea and breathing techniques and LOTS of self-care. I don't watch a lot of TV because it triggers me quite easily--images of gore and violence get me bad--and also because the overstimulation of the images and voices just seems cause me more anxiety than it does distract me from it. Even the Internet can do the same sometimes, so I mostly like to read books and hula hoop to cope. I focus a lot on eating well and exercising every day, and that seems to help a lot.
@goldcaphunter: I'm currently working on two novels. One is a YA drama/romance called The Reincarnation of the Tides and the other is a fantasy novel called The Girl Who Cried Lightning. I'll tell you about the latter because that one's more interesting: The main character's mother disappeared when she was thirteen and the main character finds her ten years later--playing drums in a famous rock band. There's a lot to it, but that's the hook :p
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Sounds like a fun read
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I always have said benzos make people boring people IMO.
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rippleinstillwater said: I've since recovered quite a bit and also started dating someone who suffers from anxiety, albeit not at severe as mine.
You guys better give my lady here some good advice, damnit! 

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Bitter Cactus said: I always have said benzos make people boring people IMO.
How so?
There's a huge difference between people that ingest benzos recreationally and people like myself that take them only when needed on the verge of a panic attack. For me, benzos are more of a safety net...Even when my anxiety is terrible, I don't take any. Only if I'm on the verge of a panic attack I'll dose. I'll only take .25-.5mg's anyways so that's not enough to make me act really any different.
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People who take benzos every day and are on them all the time are boring people IMO.
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I haven't known anyone that takes benzos every day since I was a kid. Maybe 19 years old and at that time, people that partook in daily benzos were some crazy motherfuckers. Certainly not boring but not people you'd want to hang out with either.
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MXE did wonders for my social anxiety. Most of my excessive social worry is gone. My body dysmorphic disorder is gone. I was so afraid and inhibited. MXE challenged me to confront my fears.
I wouldnt do it because I know its inappropriate, but I would feel no social anxiety from walking the streets naked on a hot day. I'm very much at peace with what people may think about my obese body. I care far less about what people think of me in general, not that I care less about them but I realize that an opinion is just, well an opinion. Its something of theirs, not of me and their disapproval doesn't diminish me unless I let it.
I have not gotten antisocial, MXE helped me defeat most of my lifelong social anxiety. It challenged me towards exposure and helped me to successfully complete these exposures and ton derive the correct lessons.
MXE killed my lifelong severe social anxiety
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Re: Anxiety [Re: Asante]
#22279622 - 09/23/15 04:39 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I wouldnt do it because I know its inappropriate, but I would feel no social anxiety from walking the streets naked on a hot day.
Sounds like you would really enjoy a regional burning man event Naked on MXE, you'd fit right in.
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Are you allowed to get naked at those things?
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I have had periods where I went through anxiety issues. I don't understand it because I used to have trouble with it and now I don't... I did relate it to stress, but sometimes I wonder if my diet or gut microbiome has changed. I mean, I can drink copious amounts of coffee in the mornings now and before I was unable to. My diet is not strict, I eat what I want but try to eat in moderation. I have been consuming Kefir and other fermented products and I wasn't doing that before. Also, I don't work out as much as I used to. Those are the only things I can think that have changed. I've been under a lot of stress lately and I don't get anxiety like I did under stress in the past. The past being, last year +...
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If you've been you'd know how funny that question is. But yes. Burns are essentially weekend free societies.
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When I was on a lot of benzos I had a car crash, drank some urine and tea bagged my little brother. Not exactly boring.
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kr0nik0 said: There's a huge difference between people that ingest benzos recreationally and people like myself that take them only when needed on the verge of a panic attack. For me, benzos are more of a safety net...Even when my anxiety is terrible, I don't take any. Only if I'm on the verge of a panic attack I'll dose. I'll only take .25-.5mg's anyways so that's not enough to make me act really any different. 
QFT - I'm exactly the same way. I avoid more than 2 days of consecutive use... that said, I don't usually take it 2 days in a row to begin with. 
Just knowing I have it for a just-in-case, brings a comfort.
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kr0nik0 said: There's a huge difference between people that ingest benzos recreationally and people like myself that take them only when needed on the verge of a panic attack. For me, benzos are more of a safety net...Even when my anxiety is terrible, I don't take any. Only if I'm on the verge of a panic attack I'll dose. I'll only take .25-.5mg's anyways so that's not enough to make me act really any different. 
QFT - I'm exactly the same way. I avoid more than 2 days of consecutive use... that said, I don't usually take it 2 days in a row to begin with. 
Just knowing I have it for a just-in-case, brings a comfort.

I agree, it can be like a safety net. I just don't enjoy relying on benzos and TBH I don't think that anxiety is something you could invent a miracle medicine for, with no ill effects. Sobriety keeps me less anxious than any drug I've ever ingested.
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Bitter Cactus said: I just made a post about anxiety tell me what you guys think
Anxiety = over avoiding all your fears.
Exposure = root solution to cure anxiety
Medication = temporary crutch to avoid true exposure
Which basically means in order to get over the anxiety, you gotta be overwhelmed with the anxiety for a little bit for it to dip back down.
Well said BC!
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Check your sleep quality. Any apneas? Anxiety might be entirely relieved by addressing sleep quality issues. I have sleep apnea and I get serious anxiety in public when I neglect to use the CPAP machine. When it hits the spot, and I wake up energetic, no anxiety at all, I'm a different person.
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Sadly, my Social Anxiety is coming back hard during this semester.
Every day I'm at my college I feel like a guy from a Radiohead song, and like not in a passionate way.
However, I think it has a lot to do with a paradigm shift in my lifestyle of, going sober, trying to be more assertive, mindful about health, quitting smoking etc. that ended up plateauing at a place I don't like.
Pushing and challenging myself to be better gave me confidence for the past year, in fact I've been confident then I have even been in the past. Sadly that is going to be the most effective activity for reducing social anxiety. You have to prove yourself wrong, become aware that you are growing and changing into someone different then you are now and that YOU have the most control over who that person will be.
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Well the CPAP thing isn't as effective as I thought, I was mainly restricting myself to familiar locations.
I think perhaps we are all maladjusted?
Do you think if we start to 'take it easy' in all aspects of life, especially right now, from here, at home, that the 'calmness' will spread to the public sphere?
I certainly overthink and overreact, to most things, maybe if I just started 'taking it easy' from now, I might grow?
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I don't know, but I think about that a lot.
I don't think taking it easy at home ever helps, unless you work hard for it.I feel like going away from pain of trying hard to better ourselves only makes us weaker. We need to dive into uncomfort at home and with others to get use to the feeling of being uncomfortable. We are maladjusted, maybe from the beginning so I'm trying to accept the difficult truths in my anxiety. Like that, I'll rarely feel comfortable around people, i'm prone to repetition, i'm scared of change and dislike help etc.
I think everyone feels those things, but they somehow accepted them and find a way to avoid the ensuing anxiety, like art, making love, using drugs, repression and all the other defense mechanism.
I hate the term "overthinking"
it implies that thinking is something quantitative that has been measured and statically analyzed to find a accepted rate that everyone else somehow maintains. you think just the right amount, it's all about making good use of your thoughts.
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circastes, let me ask you, what made you decide to use the cpap machine? were you diagnosed with sleep apnea?
if so, what were your symptoms?
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how are ya doin, ripple?
mine was always interesting - didn't come up 'til about 15 or so - then i was always happy alone,
social situations were tough - walking into a convenience store i got tunnel vision and almost passed out once;
just be patient, give it time. . . all will recover. . always i kept that faith even though it took 5-6 years. . . to get back to normal.
i remember thinkin' during that time, partly --- i was unable to speak, even --- remember thinkin',
how do people say silly things and mess things up? they don't appreciate how valuable even speaking is. . .
over the years i learned it was largely due to being sensitive to so much more. . . going on - around me-
everyone is dancing in one beautiful harmony of infinity, and. . . no one knows it! well, plenty do I know now. . . but that was part of it. . .
i wasn't able to speak, etc. . . for a lot of years. . . and - i would flinch and gulp, i had anxiety of my mouth. . . i would hold my hand over it --- all the time, that was my shelter, heh. . .
i wanted to ...
so - everything and anything you ever want to be, you can be. . . ( i forgot in the other thread, mentioning Em's - ' all that Adam had and Ceasar could, you have and can do. ' :-)
today's parlance, a few days past, i translated it to modern-day people and had this one:
'All that Carlsen has and Esfandiari can - you have and can do.' hehe. . .
but every weakness, when it's overcome, becomes a strength - then you understand people, that we're all the same - and every one matters, etc. . . .
and, being more sensitive to the world - this is only a strength, when self-mastery is found. . .
walking in nature was always the very best. . . for me, anyway. . . and playing guitar a great outlet. . .
and wasn't 'til a few different experiences - factory work, convenience store work, other wonderful experiences - that it came to fade completely. . .
Then - the joyful result is. . . like a tree that got weighed down by a big rock, survived the storm .. .
the result - for life - is peace. We grow from everything, if we use it well. . .
We may learn from every experience. . .
Peace and Love-
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Sometimes medicine induces anxiety. Especially caffiene.
I try to vear away from caffiene but here I am drinking cola.
You should get a cat, they like to climb trees and stuff. There so smug.
I live around feral cats and they just walk around chilling in the sun.
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hehe yepp. . this was long time 'go. . . for me, time is not quite linear always.
very beautiful words of kindness dear friend. . . cats are indeed beyond wonderful. . . among other things, their purr improves bone density -- layer upon layer of beauty with that one. . . we're in co-evolution with cats, trees, and all life. . beautiful to awaken to.
i had went outside, sat upon a rail, and gazed at the trees, felt the summer breeze, when i realized something i forgot to say--
all afflictive emotions - fear, worry, anger - can be left so far behind they become quite literally nothing.
that's really beautiful 
and simple to share i realized - get out in nature! for all humanity hehe. . . good plan 
i am blessed to live around them too. 
oh - and i didn't mention earlier but - really appreciated your words about how energy all flows to the supreme being --- loved that and also can see so much beauty

well, i'm off for a while thank you everyone for beauty and awesomeness. stay cool!
 
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You guys picking on me?
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if so, what were your symptoms?
Yeah I had the take home test done, all wired up at the pharmacy, looked like a nutjob walking to the car, ended up with a rating of 45 or so where anything above 30 is 'severe sleep apnea'. Symptoms included fatigue and sleepiness right from sun up to sun down, concentration problems, high blood pressure and though it's generally not listed as a symptom I had a feeling of unease that was effectively anxiety, all the time, and waking up choking with a massive heart rate (low oxygen), generally paralysed (sleep paralysis). Oh and irritability and apathy.
Light sleep is possible with sleep apnea but when deep restorative sleep hits all the muscles relax including the muscles that keep your airways open.
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Recognize it for what it is and clear your mind live in the present momentI suffer from anxiety and The only way To kill it is to face it
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Sounds like what I was saying...
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he is beautiful
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Some seriously good words in this thread. Unfortunately my anxiety has only gotten worse over the last few months, but I think that's because I'm aware of just how severe it is now and for a long time I've been pushing it away. It's hard for me to even type when I get this kind of anxiety. Went to see a psych the other day and got two prescriptions, hopefully they'll help me out a bit <3 Hope everyone else is doing alright.
Also I love all the Jerry what a beautiful man!
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Today is just killing me, even The Grateful Dead isn't really helping and they're my cure-all. This is the lowest I've felt in a really long time. :/ Send me some good vibes fellow anxiety sufferers.
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moonrockmushy
High on Spite



Registered: 07/01/05
Posts: 19,067
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I'm right with you.
I know it's not much, but stop what you're doing, shut your eyes, try your best to slow down, and take some deep breaths. I often have to remind myself to do that, and I'm still anxious most of the time, but it helps a little. Just focus on a nice easy in and out, then slowly open your eyes and take stock. Everything's going to be ok, we're weird creatures wired on edge, but by tapping into the universe around and within us we can find peace.
Be well friend!
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lillFish
Daydreamer



Registered: 01/18/09
Posts: 1,347
Loc: Recliner
Last seen: 10 days, 6 hours
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Got a bout of anxiety lately and I think it was triggered by something in my gut. I have been drinking a lot of kefir and raw milk and It's been fine. I think it was something i ate that one day at work that triggered it. I can't pin exactly what it is though. Trying to reduce breads and sugars right now so it will go away.
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kr0nik0
Ole' Salty


Registered: 02/13/12
Posts: 17,756
Loc: Western Slope, CO
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Diet plays such a huge role when dealing with anxiety triggers. Cutting down on processed sugars and dairy can make a difference IME, but it's not guaranteed.
My anxiety is also completely random, I know some of my triggers but for the most part it's a crap shoot.
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m4dScientist
Music Always Helps


Registered: 08/04/14
Posts: 1,616
Last seen: 10 months, 25 days
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circastes said:
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m4dScientist said: circastes, let me ask you, what made you decide to use the cpap machine? were you diagnosed with sleep apnea?
if so, what were your symptoms?
Yeah I had the take home test done, all wired up at the pharmacy, looked like a nutjob walking to the car, ended up with a rating of 45 or so where anything above 30 is 'severe sleep apnea'. Symptoms included fatigue and sleepiness right from sun up to sun down, concentration problems, high blood pressure and though it's generally not listed as a symptom I had a feeling of unease that was effectively anxiety, all the time, and waking up choking with a massive heart rate (low oxygen), generally paralysed (sleep paralysis). Oh and irritability and apathy.
Light sleep is possible with sleep apnea but when deep restorative sleep hits all the muscles relax including the muscles that keep your airways open.
Hey man. Thanks for the reply
Do u need a script to take the test or can u walk into any pharmacy n request it?
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