Do any of you have experience with l theanine or other supplements for social anxiety? Any tips?
nothing prescription or illegal pls
>>34625865Doremi on first page!!I wish I could help OP, but the only medication I used was Sertralin, which does require a prescription. However, I don't think it helped me much at the time, unfortunately.Doesn't mean it wouldn't on you, it just didn't seem to do much on me.As for supplements with calming effects, there are some teas, like chamomile, and also passiflora (passionfruit) tablets.
>>34625889>nothing that actually works plsSupplements are mostly sugar pills and have absolutely zero effect on you. Actually, it does produce more cortisol when you look how much money you've wasted on them, so there's that.
>>34625960>>34625966Well it looks like sertraline is pretty cheap and legal in most countries so maybe I will try for a prescription if l-theanine or those teas you mentioned don't help enough.Thank you for the advice!
You might need to start trying to go for runners highs. I've been going for runs and it feels great. No supplement can beat what your body naturally produces. Just don't destroy your dopamine by going for extreme pleasure seeking
>>34626047Yes I do miss that maybe it'll help a bit
>>34626076Seriously though, gooning and whatever nonsense people do now adays will destroy your receptors
>>34625865Just think about it differently and your self-consciousness will subside. Relax! You are not the center of the universe. All those other people in social situations are worried about *themselves*, not you. Your feelings are just brain chemicals, not reality. Relax, observe, fake confidence until you have it. Be interested in others, ask questions, listen, and ask good follow-up questions. Be in a spirit of fun, and it might be contagious.
>>34625960>the only medication I used was Sertralin, which does require a prescription. However, I don't think it helped me much at the time, unfortunatelySame here with fluoxetine. If anything, it made me more anxious. Thankfully, the good old chill pill never let me down.
Heard Clav and the looksmax community mention that pregabalin is pretty good for anxiety Didn't do my research so ask other
>>34625960>SertralinAre you still on Zoloft?
>>34625865Theanine is shit. I recommend taurine and different forms of magnesium.
>>34625865Other than the usual exposure that everyone says what helped me was becoming extremely aware of when I was anxious. It is very easy to not notice that you got triggered. So I made like a framework with a bunch of steps for what to do when I notice that I got triggered and then I put a 15min alarm on my watch and just ran the framework everytime. It helped me so much
>>34626840Nah, I've stopped taking it years ago, since I didn't think it was really doing much for me.If anything it was just making me a bit more anxious, like >>34626125 said. It made me grit and grind my teeth, and made me a bit nauseous.In retrospect, maybe I should've kept using it, maybe it would've worked eventually.These medications sometimes sit well with some people, but not with others. Maybe I was just unlucky.
>>34626973How long did you consistently take it for and in what dosage? What made you really stop and have you been medicated by anything else?Sorry for all the intrusion
>>34627684Nah it's ok, no worriesDosage I believe started with half of a 50mg pill a day (so 25mg). Stayed like that for about 2 or 3 weeks, then I upped it to one pill a day.I think I used it for about a year or close to that. I took it consistently, maybe I forgot to take it in a few days here and there, but not for more than like one consecutive day.I've stopped because I wasn't really feeling much of a positive difference, and, at the time, I felt bad for having to make my parents buy me a medication that wasn't giving results.Ever since then, I haven't taken any other similar medication. All I did was therapy now and then.My life hasn't really improved that much after I stopped though, and I'm still quite socially anxious, so maybe I should've kept going, or tried a different medication.I hope you and others don't feel demotivated from my personal experience though, it's not my intention. It might help you. I hope it does, in case anyone ever needs it.
>>34628212Do you mind sharing your age?
And if you are looking for friends or not..?
