With such a problem you can't properly rest which will significantly hinder your progress. Neither exercise, breathing, mindfulness, diet etc. seem to fix it, at best they can help a bit.
>>77224974bump
>>77224974This is my ultimate life goal. Just to feel calm, not threatened.
>>77224974you don't have overactive prefrontal cortex, you have bad dopaminurgic reward centerdo dopamine detox, cut off social media
>>77226202Dude, I have tried that as well...
>>77224974Are you jewish?
>>77226217No?
>>77226202I have never had social media in my life but i'm still fucked
>>77226087same. aside from bursts of anxiety and panic, i just feel numb and burnt out. cant even get myself to lift anymore, haven't been to the gym in almost 6 months.
bump
>>77224974Have to use it. Like how AI reliance actively harms critical and creative thinking ability. Your brain is a huge resource hog and can manage its own resource use by lowering priority in other areas that aren't being used as much.
Drugs. Benzos or opiates. That'll do the job.
>>77224974Go on antipsychotics.
>>77226202>>77224974>>77226247Most people who suffer from anxiety & overthinking do so because they're poisoning themselves with caffeine.Quitting caffeine is not optional if you want to have low stress, no anxiety and have a properly functioning brain.Only a retard would think that a substance that constricts your blood vessels, reduces blood flow to the brain, makes you go shit prematurely and gives you anxiety is good for you.Go on, spam your worthless association studies trying to "prove" coffee is good for you. You know I'm right.
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>>77227241>>77227244I don't even drink coffee nor alcohol, am not vaxxed etc.
>>77224974Self diagnosis is not valid
>>77226202That's an astounding prescription to a "bad dopaminergic reward center." I wish I was as retarded as you are.
>>77227241>>77227244Thanks, I needed a push to quit coffee for good
last bump
>>77227241Mormons don't drink caffeine. It's a drug. Maybe not a controlled substance like say tobacco, alcohol or marijuana, but it is still a drug. And the power it has on changing your mood, it's practically a narcotic.So yeah it's best to experience full on abstinence from all substances if you really want to have a baseline read on your psyche, you will need to cut out caffeine. The craziest part about caffeine is that you will feel truly sick if you quit cold turkey. Quitting everything else including tobacco cold turkey can be painful, but it won't literally make you sick. Caffeine withdrawls are truly terrible.
>>77231227>Mormons don't drink caffeine.Mormons have the single highest rate of suicide, children abuse, sexual harrasment, doing treatment for mental illness... of any religion, tho.It's the last people you want to take as a model to follow.
>>77231227>baka after having more than one seizure from alcohol withdrawals over the yearsWhile I do wish I would’ve never found out that you could have seizures from alcohol withdrawals (thus giving myself an excuse to keep drinking when I wasn’t truly at risk, eventually actually bringing myself to the point of being so), it is kinda dangerous to go around telling people they can quit anything cold turkey and be fine.Don’t do it with booze or benzos if you’re in deep enough/experiencing withdrawal symptoms or DTs. I was never stupid enough to try and quit cold turkey, but I was stupid enough to have more than one seizure while waiting for the liquor store to open.Also, for the record I agree with you on caffeine withdrawals.I don’t drink caffeine, because after battling a physical addiction like that I’d long since concluded it was a mediocre as FUCK thing to be physically addicted to, I’ve seen my brother get reaaaaal bent out of shape when a hurricane has gone through and he didn’t get his coffee.It’s lame.
>>77224974They call this getting filtered, by the way.
>>77231399From uppity homosexuals like you?
>>77231405Someone's been joggin that noggin
>>77226087Magnesium, you retard
>>77224974>>77226202>>77226210Yeah so I’m the ex-überalcoholic fuck here >>77231368, and I ended up turning to booze after a decades long struggle with insomnia, which was brutal and I’d never wish it on my worst enemy.After trying every god damned substance under the sun through my primary care physician, I ended up just saying “fuck it, I’ll try adderall, I need to fold my fucking laundry and clean my house” after being TERRIFIED of the shit for years because I saw a good friend reduce himself to skin and bones being addicted to the shit.I took a 30XR, which I’d seen someone go on a 48 hour cleaning spree using before- accidentally (and almost immediately) got the best fucking sleep of my life.I guess it’s called a paradoxical reaction, and that’s how I found out I had bad as fuck ADHD that went unchecked because I always did well in school.For what it’s worth, I also had(/have) no social media, avoided screens for hours before bed, was biking 50+ mile days in an effort to tire myself out, to no avail.Still getting maybe 2-4 hours total of sleep per week, broken up into 20 minute power naps that I just had to feel coming on, and accept, because that’s all that I could get.My body was exhausted, but my brain just wouldn’t stop going. Shit was fucked. Y’all dudes might wanna get yourselves checked out, an adult diagnosis wasn’t as instantly “life changing,” as some people post about- I still had to do a lot of work on myself and put in a good bit of effort to develop good habits and routines, but holy shit being able to sleep like a normal person has been fantastic.Also great for muh gainz as soon as I started lifting.
>>77231227>Mormons don't drink caffeine.yeah they do in cola
>>77226087Same
>>77231227I don't get caffeine withdrawals sucks to be a subhuman ig
>>77231368apparently only 5% of alcoholics get so bad that they have seizures, so congrats on being in the ninety-fifth percentile of something for once in your life lmao
>>77224974lobotomy
Ssri lexapro
>>77232896>>77232916These two posts reminded me of my favorite Tom Waits quote; “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
Everyone in this thread is wrong. Exercise, eat well, sleep well, and most importantly: SOCIALIZE. Learning to enjoy socializing and doing it more often fixed all of my anxiety and pessimism.
>>77227241what about someone who suffers from anxiety & overthinking who has been off caffeine for 9 years now?
A low dose psychedelic trip could help with this. 1.5g dry of shrooms or ~50 mcg of LSD. Be in nature. It’s like hitting the “refresh” button on your brain.
Meditation, preferably before sleeping. Just sit, close your eyes and relax. This is what Ive found to be the most effective. You cant rest properly if you’re never relaxed. Your nervous system is probably very tired. I also avoid things that trigger me like porn and social media because they’ve become compulsions, ways to avoid feeling bad. But they dont solve anything.
>>77224974Lots of weed and booze. Can't be overactive if you kill it
>>77224974Trauma Release exercises for 6-12 months coupled with a low inflammation diet, minimal screen stimulation and 8k+ steps a day.After that start mindfulness meditation by following the Culudasa book The Mind Illuminated and start practicing semen retention, aiming to not coom once for a full year.
