If I don’t manage my chronic anxiety I’m fricked. It’s like I’m always in flight or fight mode, very aware of my body and movements. Drinking fixes it instantly. What do I do lord? I want to be anxiety free.
If I don’t manage my chronic anxiety I’m fricked. It’s like I’m always in flight or fight mode, very aware of my body and movements. Drinking fixes it instantly. What do I do lord? I want to be anxiety free.
Go take a walk in the woods
Stop browsing social media 10 hours a day
Don't worry about pointless things out of your control
I’ve done all of this with genuine intent and mindfulness, I’m still anxious, it’s as if I’m always tense, scared of a possible danger, something is wrong with me.
>something is wrong with me
Drink 2 cups of coffee and go mountain biking. Ride downhill. All your anxiety will peak and then crash after 3-4 hours. When you go back home, you will feel much calmer
I’m looking for something semi-permanent, I can’t go mountain biking every day and get that beautiful high we both know and love.
I want to understand what’s causing this and snap it at the root. Surely someone here has “cured” themselves.
I haven't cured myself, but I can manage it. Propanolol as above for specific times I know I'll be stressed. If I go into full anxiety mode I'll go for a walk and clear my head. Doing something ritualistic (making a cup of tea/coffee, smoking if you're into that) supposedly helps.
Exposing yourself to sources of anxiety frequently can help acclimatise. If you're willing to try weird shit that sounds fake and gay, look into creating a tulpa for yourself (cf. Seneca's imaginary tutor).
Ive tried mindfullness and the ABCDE method. None works. I have the next theraphy session in a few days. Well, Mindfulness kind of half works. But its not a panacea and i dont feel like my previous pre anxiety self. what you described is exactly how i feel while setting a foot outside. I have been functional my whole life, college graduated wagie and all that. Currently neet
You're anxious because you have a shitty lifestyle and you don't have anything actually difficult to be stressed about so you're constantly stressed about little things instead. Since you don't want to make the effort to fix your lifestyle you should just hop on benzos or whatever all the zoomers these days are on. That seems like the quick fix you're after.
What’s the supposed lifestyle? I work and exercise, sure I’m lacking in certain areas but I’m fixing them as I speak.
Fight random people
Stab bums
Steal sandwiches from gas stations
Smoke cigarettes in non-smoking areas
Feed fertilizer pellets to pigeons
Ask police men if they ever found the bodies, do not elaborate
Just mingle man, life is a warzone and you're a fricking cavalry man.
I want to buy your self help book.
Unironically good advice. Exposure therapy is the best cure but you have to do it CONSISTENTLY
Progressive muscle relaxation, dude. You force your body to relax and this makes your mind relax, too.
I’ll try this. Thanks.
I was a very heavy drinker and very anxious and cured myself, but I did do in a turbo autistic way. I was reading/listening to a bunch of Greek philosophy and thinking about discipline and being truly free and I heard about pic related on IST. It's not even peak literature or anything (I mean it's genre fiction), but I liked it. Anyhow, one main character is a turbo autist probability bot who just operates on reason and has eliminated any concern for other people and desire. I am pretty sure he's actually supposed to be the bad guy, but it was motivation to stop giving into shit.
I completely stopped drinking or avoiding uncomfortable situations and did get two big promotions and a gf turned fiance since but I think I've also turned myself into a logicbot. At least I'm honest with myself now though. Did help cutting and getting shredded too.
Probably the spegiest solution to alcoholism and anxiety ever, although the Aristotle was less so. Now I have to unbecome a robot.
Based Bakkerchad. How exactly did you turn yourself into Kellhus? What do you think and how do you act?
Just taking time to reflect on all challenges without concern for emotion. Put yourself in other people's shoes to see how they respond to potential actions . Envisage your future self (apparently good for stopping procrastinating). Just buying time to briefly meditate on these things and consider all possibilities, which allows you to separate emotional response from events.
Also, people respond to ques and behaviors that are fairly subtle. I've come to realize that embodying confidence and acting it out, or embodying sensitivity, trying to feel these emotions even when you don't, but also holding them at a distance, gives you what you need to convince others.
But I haven't gone around cuckolding, raping, and starting wars to maximize my advantage so clearly I'm not doing it to the same degree. You need a moral compass or what is the point of being free? That's the tough part.
>don’t do anything so you so won’t get anxious
Gay and useless
>Benzos are for homosexuals
you’re already a homosexual lmao, coping moronic alchie
Just do it moron lol, literally that easy
Why do you need a therapist? Literally this easy to fix
>I’m anxious
>I don’t wanna be anxious
>looks up why, sees it’s unresolved emotions
>get into same position
>get same feeling
>ok gotta beat that feeling
Or
>man I’m procrastinating
>man I’m procrastinating
>man I’m procrastinating
>man I’m procrastination
>man I’m procrastinating
>man I’m procrastinating
>better do something about it
>man I’m procrastinating
>man I’m procrastinating
>man I’m procrastinating
>ok better do it it’s due tomorrow/today
You are just making assumptions that he hast tried or is procrastinating.
And yes. Meds are for gays
Chronic Anxiety is caused by not accomplishing anything worthwhile. People that have it are by definition not trying or procrastinating
People from all kinds of backgrounds and accomplishments get anxious by even leaving the room, not sure where you are getting those ideas
>Just do it moron lol, literally that easy
Just do... what? lmao
Never said I didn't do anything, just that I get adrenaline bursts at irrelevant times.
>Go take a walk in the woods
>tfw leaving the house causes me anxiety
Being around other people and having no control over my environment actually causes me so much stress. Basically I was attacked by 3 people once, and never getting over being a loser in high school has really fricked my brain.
Go for a walk innawoods. Like, bit around people. Go to a national park. It helps, I promise. There's a peace in being alone and it helps your brain differentiate between "outside makes me nervous" and "people make me nervous" and that's the first step to recovery.
i have allergies
what now mr twitter noadvice for normie moronswith no actual issues
moron
Cardio
Meditate
Box breathing
Grounding technique
Cold showers (without hyping yourself)
Theres this pol screenshot thats posted sometimes that says involuntary vibrations release trauma and tension, idk sounds wack
I don't leave the house without a shot or two of the silly water. It's been like that for years. Benzos are for homosexuals so I will not be taking them.
Stop drinking anon. You may thing you're functioning well but to others you are probably a smelly mess. It's only a matter of time until you get a DUI.
Damn sorry to hear that. How many times have you had pancreatitis?
ok well then, what you must do is clearly leave you house without drinking, its literally that simple to begin making positive changes.
yea i did lol. i had to go ham into psychology in order to fix my self, there is no short cuts.
check out "dialectic behavioural therapy'. its a psychology that teaches you how to police and manage your own thoughts.
Is there actually a problem with this? The Ikarians (blue zone) drink 3 glasses of red wine per day and are super healthy into their 90s.
>Kills anxiety
>Increased extroversion
>Integrated into healthy diet/lifestyle
It's a problem if you're drunk everyday, as a crutch for negative emotion. There's literally nothing wrong with two shots as a lubricant.
I was like this for a whiiiile in college. I had to have jager with breakfast or else I couldn’t leave the house.
I took klonopin for 10 days and I was fine. Still had anxiety but was able to deal with it, pulled me back from the brink. Used properly that shit is magical.
Leave your house everyday no matter what. Anxiety comes because you lose proportion. Day to day life is boring an nothing terrible happens everyday for most people. Go outside doesn't matter why spend an hour outside walking everyday.
When I had bad depression I didn't drink till night time and drank only every other day so as to not raise my tolerance. It's still alcoholic tier but not as bad to use booze as a reward for having some whatever you have to do with your day.
after taking time off cause dumb injury i realized how much strength training helps me out
you could powerlifting, so you're more confident as you get stronger plus you'll be relaxed after a good session
maybe it's more social anxiety for you? just talk to random people, say hello to whoever's close for you whenever you anxious maybe?
idk, you didn't give enough info but just lift heavier for now
>tfw didn't proof read
this is good advice too and i'd say listen to less music unless you're lifting or listen to shit like this
there was a study about that track reducing stress if i remember correctly
this is also another relaxing track
>posts anxiety inducing music
Based butthole
Lol I love Aphex twin but I'd recommend somthing else for meditation like Brian Eno and Laraaji.
Running and Yoga pretty much lifted me out of the constantly stressed state of mind. You should try it.
How did you start your running routine? I just went on my first run in over a year. 30 mins, 4km, 1 minute run / 1 minute walk. Feels pretty good bro, think I'll do it 3 times a week to start.
Realize anxiety is cringe and a meme disorder for 13 year old girls while you are a grown ass man and then just stop
As much as I hate that everyone self-diagnoses every brain disease under the sun and calls themselves "neurodivergent" when they just have no attention span, anxiety is a noticeable thing.
I can look at a situation and literally say "I know my line of thinking is stupid and nonsensical and there is no reason for me to worry here" and my body will respond with the fight or flight response and adrenaline.
Not every mental issue is made up.
Yes this is exactly me, I need to fix this, o I’ll trow the kitchen sink at it.
Propanolol helps if you know you're about to go into an anxiety-causing situation.
I also had a week where I was on proxchlorperazine for vertigo, and one of its other uses is an anxiety medication. Found all of the situations I would normally be anxious over I was super chilled that week.
Progressive muscle relaxation worked for me when nothing else did. You can do it anywhere, too.
>Drinking fixes it instantly. What do I do lord? I want to be anxiety free.
quit drinking for one. you're an addict, moron.
I don’t, maybe 4 times a year.
fix your gut health, cheers
Honestly I think it’s all down to this from what I’ve been researching, I wasn’t breastfed as well which most likely fricked my immune system in a major way, to this day I have histamine issues and eating certain foods triggers scalp inflammation. When I’m anxious I always feel a knot in my tummy. And when I was a child I had a case of gastroenteritis. Apart from this I eat no processed or industrial food 98% of the times. So I think I have to explore how to actually permeate the gut and fix it for real.
Your mental state dictates your gut health too bro, gl tho
its coming from your mind, not your physiology.
people literally have to learn how to think properly, if they don't, then they will not enjoy thinking, and they will seek out ways to not think, like with drugs and other vices.
unironically this, studies have shown that creatine (yes that creatine) and magnesium are literally more effective then anti depressents at treating anxiety and depression.
magnesium is the second biggest vitamin deficincy next to vitamin d, you should also take vitamin d and iodine.
to clarify what this person is saying, not all your thoughts are your own, you should not take personal owner ship of all your thoughts and see them as a reflection of your charector, some of your thoughts are intruders, hence the term "intrusive thoughts". look at pic related here
when you are havin gbad thoughts
>its coming from your mind, not your physiology.
>people literally have to learn how to think properly, if they don't, then they will not enjoy thinking, and they will seek out ways to not think, like with drugs and other vices.
The mind also stores trauma in the body, if there's something that OP hasn't dealt with emotionally it will wreak havok. It's all connected man.
You sound stable...
>gut health
yikes, someone fell for viral marketing
What do you think of Kefir? Am I poisoning myself?
God i wish I knew. I literally wake up with anxiety and feel constantly tense. It’s a disease at this point
Be strong brother, people will try you to push all kinds of meds into you. They dont solve the main underlying isshue, not worth it
I am anxious person and since getting fit I've moved out of flight or fight mode into just 'fight' mode. It's probably not conducive to exist in cucked society but for whatever reason I view every man around me in terms of whether I could crush him, and I only respect the 2% that are taller than me or are with their young children. It's a more comfortable mode for sure but I'll probably be stabbed to death by a Black person some day. I'm not sure if it's healthy but I also suspect it's a natural instinct for a caveman in hostile territory.
>be me
>Developed chronic anxiety in late highschool, plagued me for about 6 years
>Full on panic attacks, psuedohallucinations, a constant mess
>Screwed up many of my relationships, habits, literally couldn't imagine being alive without anxiety
>Now basically over it, hard for me to even imagine being in that state again
The only thing that works anon is a combination of CBT therapy, journaling, and serious serious self investigation. You must learn to
>Figure out what triggers your anxiety
>Investigate the origins of these triggers, where they came from in your past, why they seriously affect your psychology
This is very difficult and even painful, because in doing so you're going to have to actually face yourself as a human being, the life you have led and why you have (or haven't) pursued different actions and relationships in your life.
You must, you must find a therapist anon. And do not be afraid to shop around for one that really fits you: finding a good therapist is the hardest part.
Picking up a journaling habit also helped me immensely. Don't worry so much about "having something to say" than just journaling your various thoughts, feelings you've had or have had. But only will you get to know yourself better, it's also incredibly relaxing. I started doing it before bed and even noticed that my sleep improved.
Best of luck, feel free to ask me anything. I've gone from almost killing myself during a week long panic attack to having not had a single episode in about two years.
Not op but is there a good alternative for the journaling part? I read Meditations by the roman emperor and then I kept an stoic journal for about 2 months and then stopped because I really didnt feel any kind of effect whatsoever, im happy it worked for you bro
>wiener and Balls Torture therapy
lmao what the frick
He's right. Anxiety, depression and low self-esteem are brought about due to a lack of goal achievement and autonomy in achieving those goals.
Everyone should read ISaiF, he's a gay on a few points but otherwise makes a cogent argument.
>he's a gay on a few points
on what is he a gay?
my guess would be his insistance on the demantling of an industrial society, the working with foreign nations to dismantle said industrial society, and his nonchalant dismissal of race. not the guy you were talking to, though
Nofap cured my anxiety
I ve dealt with severe anxiety and now I can say I barely have any problems with it. What I did is this, learn to meditate first focus on normal breathing, then body scan, then creating a confident emotion inside myself and holding it and then at some point I got to complete surrender, meditation is not something you try for a while and then you quit, it s essential for everyone for all their life. Exposing myself to anxiety provoking situations and also at the same time trying to create the same emotion I was creating while meditating. As the other anon said facing myself was important, looking inside and being honest with myself and know all my triggers and what made me this way etc. Working out. Clean diet. Cold showers. Having patience and being kind to myself, trying to accept and love both the good and the bad in me. Started drawing to help myself express creatively and put emotions in there, reading and studying different subjects I'm interested in helped me gain more and more confidence as the years passed and I knew more and more.
Creatine
Magenssium
You can add bupropion if you dont mind taking meds
You're welcome
Sometimes you just have to snap and not give a frick about anything like the dude in Office Space when he gets hypnotized.
You might also have someone in your life that increases your anxiety in ways you don't realize.
Drinking only makes it worse.
just stop listening to this guy in your head. Just be aware of your surroundings like smell, sounds and feels instead of listening to that non existing negative voice in your head.
Propranolol...
Propanolmao, even.
Excellent.
Dip your head in some water for 30 sex
Imagine that you have the ability to expand your veins to get the blood to flow smoother. Do it and then stand up straight. Convert your mental drive into deadlift PRs or into whatever challenging thing you are doing at the moment. You're lucky that you have a high amount of brain energy, use it.
>nobody in here mentioning vitamin levels
homie go get some lab work done. Get your D checked, magnesium potassium, iron and b 12 just to be safe, cortisol of course and your other hormones (make sure you test SHBG.) One of these being off can frick you up really good. And it doesn't matter how much sun you're getting or how well you eat, might not be properly absorbing things.
>tfw prolactin and ACTH twice the upper range limit and cortisol slightly above upper limit
i was never meant to have my dick working was i
>It’s like I’m always in flight or fight mode, very aware of my body and movements
basically the same for me
this is what happens when you spend extended periods of time lonely, you start seeing yourself seperate from everyone
Very interesting way of putting it, this had somehow never occurred to me
I've said it before in this thread, but I would highly recommend you try propranolol. For situational anxiety/sympathetically driven people, it can be a game changer.
Basically, if your glucose drops your sympathetic system kicks in. Adrenaline triggers glycolysis and gluconeogenesis whilst inhibiting glycogenesis. Adrenaline and noradrenaline also function as neurotransmitters, so this can trigger anxiety.
I'll actually go buy a box tomorrow anon, it won't frick with my gains or lifts right?
>gains
No.
>Lifts
No.
If I'm doing cardio, I take it after; I recommend you do that too, as it will reduce your heart rate.
good and good, one last thing is
I unironically start shaking when I'm in public (at least if there is people around) , think it would help with that as well?
In all likelihood, yes it will. Anxiety-induced tremor is again due to adrenaline, which propranolol blocks.
I have been told by an endocrinologist that anxiety and it’s symptoms can be induced by your blood sugar level sharply dropping.
If I knew more I would elaborate but I’m still learning this
man AI truly has let us enter a new era of abstract shit posting. /qa/ would have loved this
Try valerian root
For me I feel less anxious when I’m bulking and training hard as hell.
I think it’s honestly the higher amount of carbs and the abundance of nutrients.
Physiologically, what is there to be anxious about when you have exerted yourself, flushed out all the stress and tension, and then rewarded yourself with a massive nutritious feast? The endorphins are high, your body thinks that you are a king or a apex hunter. So you feel more relaxed, blissed out, dominant. You’re the king.
Whenever I stop training as hard and get lazy with my food I notice that I feel more frail and anxious. Especially if I lower my carbs. Like I’m in a state of famine or sparsity so my anxiousness goes up.
I’m 2 weeks into my winter bulk and I’m already feeling better in myself.
move your eyes left and right all the way for two minutes then keep them as relaxed as possible for the entire day. It works pretty well but it's way harder than it sounds. My eyes tense up after maybe 5 minutes max if I let them.
If you care about the theory behind it you might wanna check out the Huberman Podcast or at least look for clips about anxiety because he's not exactly the most exciting guy
REM hipnosis is a thing practiced to ptsd soldiers, it works wonders too.
Be me a few months ago, not gonna greentext. I had anxiety from my fingers, having constant intrusive thoughts about breaking them or them being broken by falling down or trapping them in doors etc. I was basically in fear for months on end, and I worked through it by facing my fears in a controlled setting. Going outside and gently falling from my knees to pushup position, then falling on them a bit harder. I would stick my fingers in random tight holes, up faucets, in pegs, between wooden planks on benches. I would even try bending them with my own hands as much as I would dare. Eventually I found my limit, and could push beyond slight discomfort, which brought a peace of mind that allowed me to stop worrying. The anxiety is of the unknown and the only way to explore that fear is to face them in a safe way. That plus cutting caffiene.
Pic related, I dropped a weight on my hand recently and cut my finger which should've sent me spiralling, but being in a real situation when my hands were hurt was much more mundane than I could ever imagine it being. Our minds in an anxious state push our fears to the max, creating a place where suffering is infinitely painful and endless, but in the real world there is a hard limit on suffering. You feel the pain, then get a bandage, then heal. Anxiety is what happens when you stay away from the real world for so long you regress to a noob and forget how real pain and rejection feels. We suffer more in our minds than anywhere else.
I could NOT push beyond slight discomfort*
You absolutely should be anon, look at this fricking place
Mainstream news now presents onlyfans as a empowering career for women, we venerate actors and musicians the very lowest of the arts, they dont even create merely preform, we treat them like they really did the shit in the movies.
Men are all weak and effeminate, no one duels for their honor anymore, they fillm and post the incidents instead of dealing with them. philosophy is dead and religion not far behind, we're fricked anon so act accordingly
I would laugh at this bizarre shit but then again I'm literally afraid to talk to women at 27 so what do I know
Chances are you never even met a woman in your life. A woman can make dough, knows home remedies for a variety of ailments, knows how to trend a garden, can look after animals and children alike, a woman is a natural psychologist and empath, a woman sets a high ideal for a man to strive for and become worthy, A woman doesnt just know love she teaches it.
What we seem to have today is men of the opposite sex, alike in career, knowledge, ability and passion, we are a race of men
>Anxiety is in your body, not your mind
whoa
it's almost like your body and your mind are the same organism
Go to therapy dawg. Find a therapist you get along well with. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy works really well for anxiety and depression. If you have issues with panic attacks, read "when panic attacks".
consider reading "how to win friends and influence people" by dale carnegie
"games people play" by eric berne
and "the courage to be disliked" about adlerian psychology
how to win friends
http://englishonlineclub.com/pdf/Dale%20Carnegie%20-%20How%20to%20Win%20Friends%20and%20Influence%20People%20(Book%202)%20[EnglishOnlineClub.com].pdf
transactional analysis (its not about money, its looking at social interactions as transactions of increments of affection)
https://ia801907.us.archive.org/4/items/games-people-play-the-psycholo-eric-berne/Games%20People%20Play_%20The%20Psycholo%20-%20Eric%20Berne.pdf
The courage to be disliked
ashwagandha my friend, You'll notice a change in a week
I really recommend NOT fricking around with ashwagandah or any chemical for that matter. It's not the safe thing people portray it to be and has caused serious damage to some people
this gay shit gave me urinary retention on my first week of fricking uni frick off
Ash sucks wiener. Lowers DHT too. Total meme.
Just pack a gun, I have 0 anxiety in every situation. If I have that last resort in the back of my mind I’m always calm. If I embarass myself badly enough I can just kill all witnesses.
https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Anxiety
Just drink more water BUDDEH
Take Borax
Happened to me in college. Felt like a homosexual and never told anyone. Would get nauseous sitting in lecture and I guess “have a panic attack” thinking about what if I had to throw up right now and couldnt make it to the bathroom in time. Super gay I know. Started focusing on those feelings of anxiety and tried to willingly intensify them, and in doing so I realized it was out of my control but also that it wouldnt get worse if that makes sense. Literally just try to focus on the negative anxiety feelings and will them to become more intense. Only thing that worked for me but it really did. Good luck Black person
repeat after me: M D M A +ketamine
>psychadelics
everyone who takes these just turns into a tard tbh
What this picture means is that anxiety is basically emotion of the past stucked in the body, traumatic émotion that your body prevented to go fully through ur conscience because too painful, go read Arthur janov
Eat low carb. I was just like you and this fixed it for me
Drinking was one of the main reasons for my anxiety. It fixed it temporarily and then made it even worse. Drinking less alcohol overall, having a good diet and most importantly, getting good sleep (also impossible if you drink too much) have fixed my anxiety. I've been through years of crippling general and social anxiety and it completely disappeared once I fixed those 3 things.
Get 8 hours. Sleep is like therapy for the mind.
You didn't say what you anxiety was about. But whatever it is, that is probably the exact thing you should face in order to cure it. I had really bad social anxiety and it was only through talking to people more that I was able to get better.
How's your gut flora doing anon?
A vtuber cured my anxiety by talking about 9/11 and I have no idea how to thank her without her thinking I'm crazy if I explain how she helped me
explain it to us first
>spend years isolating and avoiding discomfort
>now can't travel anywhere unfamiliar or 1 hour away from my house without getting sick
Hermit mode is not anabolic, guys
Whenever I discuss this with people the description I get is very similar to what I remember going through the first time I had to take the bus as a kid, or going to a new school or before an exam, mostly juvenile experiences. Disproportionate stress response over something trivial and inability to handle it.
Now my theory is, you either never got discomfortable enough to essentially desensitize yourself, or you got so comfortable/ isolated in some point down the road that you regressed/ oversensitized yourself.
Everyone is saying "just do it lmao" and they are right, but to really get the point across we actually have to tell you:
JUST GET STRESSED
>but its very hard
I dont care
>but i cant breath
You can, you might think you cant but you can, nobody choked over a panic attack
>but i am going to look like a little b***h
Way past that
Stop coddling yourself.
Or go to therapy so you can pay 6 gorrillion bucks per session to get told the same fricking thing but sugarcoated.
everybody in this thread is kinda talking about two kinds of anxiety. Theres the controllable and stupid anxiety, like social anxiety, or anxiety about job/school, or other things like that. really normal things. Then, if youve had some kind of traumatic event, you might be scared of things you think, or of things that you know logically won't even happen. This is when taking a walk in the woods or reading a book can't help. We are scared of being scared, of something irrational happening. You are always on edge for no reason. it doesn't matter if you are smarter than your problem. It doesn't matter if youve slept really well. The only way to get rid of this kind of anxiety temporarily is to distract yourself with something that forcefully keeps your attention with dopamine, like porn or social media. I don't know how to solve this anxiety. It goes away after I do something really based and make myself feel like im an alpha chimp, like hitting a PR or getting laid, but almost nothing does that anymore. Cardio helps but sometimes it doesn't. Coffee makes it worse, but it never goes away completely, until you believe you have beaten it. I don't have the confidence to believe that.
This kind of anxiety can be slowly chipped away at by long term accomplishments. If you are anxious about failure and have a long history of overcoming difficult challenges and odds in education, in your career and obviously in lifting hitting bigger PR's etc. All give you a sense of linear progress. You where anxious at the time but you what it and get what you wanted you can logically do it again. This doesn't work as an unironic grindset you just have to keep putting effort especially when its the hardest. It pays off long term.
two things: exercise helps you acclimate to the adrenaline symptoms
meditation/mindfulness helps you filter thoughts, separate the physical sensations from your mental space, and to accept the feeling. the more you fight it or ignore it it will spiral. you also have to do exposure to the things that make you anxious, either slowly or if youve got the balls jump right in. like others here said, take a real good look at yourself and your life and identify the root causes of the anxiety. actively say positive things in your head, be a friend to yourself and dont beat yourself up if you have a bad day.
When i was very young like 8y/o i once had a really bad stomach flu, 12 straight hours of dry heaving/throwing up bile, became really weak and dehydrated by the end of it, for some reason this really traumatized me
10 years later/7 years ago i was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. One way that you can die from this disease is: if for any of a myriad of reasons one does not receive adequate insulin (pump malfunction, infected infusion site, expired/denatured insulin are most common=most dangerous), within hours you develop ketoacidosis, which is characterized by nausea weakness and dehydration. Untreated for a few hours it can be fatal.
These two have given me immense anxiety for years, these days mostly the type 1 stuff. Im talking panic attacks on public transportation/in school/at work, constant low level unease and discomfort. Difficult to relax and lower heart rate, difficult to focus on a task or social situation without my mind racing, thinking about getting sick, wondering if im sick, worrying whether my insulin or pump are working. Basically chronically elevated cortisol and epinephrine
Here are the things that have worked for me
>less alcohol
>less/no weed
>cardio
>meditation and mindfulness
>addressing the root of the problem (in my case, better blood sugars, going to the doctor more)
>wim hof
>talking to people that share the same problem
Godspeed anon. The most anxious year of my life i lost a shit ton of hair. Since reining the stress in, my hairloss has actually stopped
Kanna/Zembrin and absolutely no stims such as coffee/red bull basically cured my paranoia/anxiety.
>jUsT Do dRuGS bR0
This is why your life sucks, you gay morons.
Anxiety is your body telling you that you are living a sheltered b***h life and need to expose yourself to the real world more.
Post fizeek so I can mog you before I go to sleep.
Anxiety is the easiest to fix. It’s pretty simple actually. You need to burn off the adrenaline. Exercise often and more.
It’s a grand irony. Millennials and Gen Z have record depression and anxiety, not because their life is so hard, but because it’s so easy.
You ask them why they have these conditions. You hear nonsense like global warming, war in ukraine, trump in White House, “racism” , work not having purpose etc. etc. literally made up shit that if you turn off your devices that are literally built to addict you for one minute and go outside you realize life is good.
Greatest generation, generation before that, and hell even boomers despite millennial b***hing all had it much much harder.
Meds are a joke. Therapy is a fricking joke. All life trying to make you miserable and then get you to spend more money to “solve” that problem without addressing any of it.
Self introspection, setting and accomplishing goals, fitness and diet, being involved with your community and social interaction. You do this your anxiety and depression mysteriously melts away
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What a moronic take. Record anxiety is due to the sheer overstimulation of modern urban living. Being surrounded by thousands of unknown people daily is something your brain isn't designed to navigate. This is like saying people in WW1 were pussies because they had record levels of PTSD.
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>nonsense like global warming, war in ukraine, trump in White House, “racism”, work not having purpose etc.
last one is actually a huge deal. having a purpose in life is what gives life meaning. it's possible to derive meaning from non-work things, but having your 40 hour a week main activity and achievement be meaningless easily causes depression.
>Being surrounded by thousands of unknown people daily is something your brain isn't designed to navigate.
People aren't surrounded by thousands of unknown people daily. You're surrounded by the people you live with and the ones you see at work and at the grocery store or whatever. And for the vast majority of people that amount of people is very manageable. A better explanation for anxiety is a lack of meaningful social interactions, societal pressure to fit in and conform to a gazillion things (social media contributes a lot to this), fear of missing out (again social media), a lack of meaningful work/contribution to society in a way that you actually notice (e.g. working for a huge corporation where you can't even see your impact doesn't work), large societal demands to plan everything out weeks, months, years, decades from now or else you're fricked, etc.
>People aren't surrounded by thousands of unknown people daily. You're surrounded by the people you live with and the ones you see at work and at the grocery store or whatever.
If you live in a city and aren't a shut-in, you will see in the order of several hundred faces per day, the majority of which you don't know. The fact that you don't even realize this is quite telling. Why do you think anxious people have panic attacks in public spaces? What do you think situational anxiety is?
Birds in cities are several decibels louder than birds in the countryside as everything is fighting to be heard over the din. Your primitive brain isn't designed to deal with the constant stimulation that comes with urban living, and for many people, being constantly sympathetically stimulated leads to anxiety.
>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23742829/
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5374256/
>you will see in the order of several hundred faces per day, the majority of which you don't know
sure, but again, for the vast majority of people this isn't an issue.
>Why do you think anxious people have panic attacks in public spaces? What do you think situational anxiety is?
Those exist and some of that is due to what you mentioned. But the increase in anxiety in the last few decades is more due to the things I mentioned and not what you're saying here.
>Your primitive brain isn't designed to deal with the constant stimulation that comes with urban living
I agree, but for most people the amount of people you're surrounded by isn't the issue. It's the other things I mentioned. I do agree that noise pollution, air pollution, etc, also negatively affect people.
>the vast majority of people this isn't an issue.
The majority of people don't have pathological anxiety.
>the increase in anxiety in the last few decades is more due to the things I mentioned and not what you're saying here.
I disagree; the literature shows a clear correlation between urban living and pathological stress/anxiety and the mechanisms are well documented.
I think unfulfillment correlates with depression, but you are lumping depression and anxiety together and the etiology is vastly different.
>The majority of people don't have pathological anxiety.
Yeah, but if seeing many unknown faces daily would be such a big problem that it can cause pathological anxiety, then the vast majority of people would also be negatively affected (just not to such a large degree as the most susceptible ones).
>the literature shows a clear correlation between urban living and pathological stress/anxiety
many of the things I mentioned are amplified in urban environments. they're not only modern age problems.
>I think unfulfillment correlates with depression, but you are lumping depression and anxiety together
Yeah, I do. Perhaps too much.
>and the etiology is vastly different
I don't think so. Maybe for a relatively small amount of the cases. But I think that the rise in depression and anxiety that affects a significant portion of the population shares considerable overlap in root causes and resulting symptoms.
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your diet is killing you
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s a v e y o u r s e l f
try NAC
Talk to a psychiatrist about venlafaxine.
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does anybody else have stomach issues that seem to be causing your anxiety? I have some form of GERD's and my upset stomach and stomach acidity always seem to lead to being anxious. I was never an anxious person before my stomach started going to shit
Alot of you homies keep forgetting about the decline of religion as a key factory in anxiety/depression. This is important.
"Of the 178 most methodologically rigorous studies, 119 (67%) find inverse relationships between religious/spiritual and depression."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426191/
Indian homies been warning us for 4000 years that suffering comes from a disconnection with the inner divine light. But no, we can't see shit beyond our phones.
The thing is that you know when people are lying about their anxiety when you actually have had real anxiety
I had a "traumatic" event happen to me in 2013 and while I get over shit pretty quickly once its over and done with, my sub conscience or whatever it is did not.
Would wake up in the middle of the night gasping for air. Got heart palpitations shortly after which drove my anxiety to the point of "impending doom" status. Have ever since had issues eating without liquids out of fear of choking. VERY over aware of any problem with my body even if its an injury I think its something much more severe.
All while I can say to myself "stop being moronic, you're fine" and still have these issues
It did get much better after I started lifting hard and eating better though
>Drinking fixes it instantly
Found your problem
Take a month or two off drinking, you can use benzos to wean yourself off but make sure you go at least 2 weeks with no drugs at all. What you're experiencing is likely withdrawal, not anxiety
If that doesn't work get CBT. DO NOT go on SSRIs, maybe try ketamine even
I managed it by becoming a prick and not giving a frick about other people, feels great, looking for my next victim