Did you ever cure your anxiety in your country?
No, I found alcohol
>>221038602Fake it till you make it and Operate on autopilot, repeat things you've heard.
>>221038614Hangxiety doesn’t help, and it gets worse over time. Don’t lean too hard on the booze.
>>221038690this>>221038620I don't think faking works, but I think to embrace being shy is OK
>>221038602Wtf is anxiety
>>221038614same
>>221038602As someone with a diagnosed anxiety stress disorder (and hid it from everyone). I do everything in a day to boost my confidence which are things like:Finish my assignments early. Get all my work done at my job. Go to the gym early. Eat well. Get muscles. Well groomed and clean clothes. Block out all fear.Stop consuming so much social media. Read my bible. Looks maxxx. When passing by I take an extra second to smile to women (Women liked to be looked at. If she blushes back its a huge boost in confidence).
>>221038602i feel like i should cut down on caffeine, but i'm addicted
>>221039159Do you take any meds?Seems like all reasonable advice, but I am married so I don't need to bother with woman anymore.
>>221038602you're gonna laugh a lot but breathing exercises and trying to see the bigger picture has helped me to lengths I didn't know were possible with how debilitating it was at some point
>>221038614This but also cigs, coca cola and candies
>>221038602I stopped being anxious when I went outside, socialize with people, eat and sleep better.Mental illnesses is more physical than you think.
>>221039320I'm only gonna cringe because breathing doesn't do anything.
>>221039320I think there is truth in what your saying, but can this alone work?>>221039369I agree, but what if the anxiety stops your from doing this things in the first place and you have panic attacks trying?
>>221039320>>221039598>>221039637it doesn't do anything to like make you a less anxious person but in the moment breathing exercises are legit by far the best method to get rid of anxiety or stop panic attacks.
>>221039713never did anything to me and I tried dozens of times
>>221039734Yeah, ignore these anons. If breathing exercises or "seeing the bigger picture" stops your anxiety, you have normal, non-clinically relevant anxiety. It's like when people say "seeing the bright side" or exercising cures their depression - you're not depressed, you're just a little sad. I honestly hate people that co-opt these conditions for their incredibly normal human emotions that everyone experiences. I feel like if these faggots got to have a single real panic attack or minute of actual clinical depression they would kill themselves immediately.
>>221039637You can't cure anxiety/depression but you can make the symptoms manageable. I began having panic attacks around 11 years old and got started on 10mg daily fluoxetine around 16. I haven't had a panic attack in 20 years on the fluoxetine. I still get abnormally anxious but I'm able to shake it off pretty easily and I'm on the lowest dose they make.
>>221039826Idk if it's anxiety or what but my bpm spikes by 30 when measured by a doctor and I suspect blood pressure does too.At home, bpm is normal according to google.
>>221038602what you all even anxious aboutonly time I get anxious is when I have to speak in front of peopleor do you guys have this """"""""anxiety""""""" aka "i'm a useless piece of shit that never bothered doing anything in my entire life and i'm unemployed and spend 10 hours a day doomscrolling on my phone"cause in that case, I'm afraid the case is terminal and the only solution is suicide
>>221038602Anxiety made me an alcoholic
>>221039923It's a defective physiological response to external stimuli, it's not something you can control by just "bro relax", unfortunately the word has become a buzzword so it doesn't mean what it means anymore.
>>221039866What is your BMI? I have had positive experiences with sertraline, but I am worried about long term effects so I keep trying to quit (specifically weight gain). Trying buspar atm but if it fails will probably need to go back to sertraline.Do you not worry you will ever be able to quit?
>>221039335Cola have caffeine which increases anxiety
>>221040723Caffeine does make me feel weirdly hyperaware of irrelevant stuff but it's incomparable to real genuine anxiety, go fuck yourself.
>>221039734>dozens of timesI meditated daily for an entire year and it worked for me. The problem with you people is expecting some miracle solution you end up ditching the moment you get tired of it. Don't do breathing exercises/techniques because "it's the solution to your anxiety issues", just do it because it's a good routine, makes you learn to control your heart rate/oxygen intake and even without expecting anything from it a daily short mental break will be good for anyone in this garbage stimulus filled world.Also, the same psychiatrist that recommended me that I start meditating also recommended reading books about CBT/ACT or viewing related media about the subject.>>221039826Does not being able to sleep properly for months due to experiencing sensations of restlessness, intrusive thoughts and shortness of breath fit your idea of "true anxiety"? And having unprompted sharp chest pains that make you lie down on the floor?
>>221038602i made it worse
>>221038602Ashwagandha basically deletes anxiety.>>221038614This too. You can be the most autistic neet ever and alcohol is like a magic socialization elixir.
>>221038602not yet, probably going to cure it forever very soon though
Fix your stomach.
>>221038602I've never been anxious, after all I am a middle class guy in an European country, what's there to be anxious about?
>>221038614samethe problem is when you cannot stop yourself from drinking more and end up blacking out
>>221038614See you in 10 years when you're dead, in rehab or with a permanently fucked liver, It never ends well
>>221038690You only need like a beer or two a night to live a life of peace thoughbeit. No hangover. I'm still quitting now but as far as coped go it's not so bad.
no. well, not cure it. what i did was choose who i trusted in my life, and then finally let my guard down. i told them what a nervous wreck i was, how i could barely eat anymore. and the crazy thing was, it turned out they were feeling almost the same way. stomach ulcers, therapy, it turns out we had so much in common we never knew. even my parents. there's this struggle humanity is holding themselves against every day. and i don't really feel there is a * fix. i think all we can do is allow ourselves to struggle against it together.
>>221039923I almost always have tension induced neck pain and often have random (mostly subconscious) worries about getting a heart attack which causes me to be very sensitive to any sort of discomfort in my chest. These things both of course are feedback loops. So how'd it start? No clue, but now these are self sustaining physical maladies I can best explain as general anxiety.
Took Escitalopram for about two years. That gave me enough "space" to understand what it's like to live without anxiety, and in that period I developed skills to manage it properly. I quit about a year ago per recommendation from my doctor, and while the anxiety is back, I do manage it a lot better. The thing is I'm not sure if I want to live like this anymore though, it is quite the struggle. I think I would like to go back to it so I can lower the "volume" of my emotions again. Issue is, My psychiatrist insists that the medication is meant as a temporary bandaid, and I should be doing CBT which is meant to help me figure out a final solution to the problem. I've done CBT for two years. It was a complete waste of time. I'm not sure how to proceed.
>>221041029I already have a worthless timewasting routine, boredom isn't what's causing my problems. Go fuck yourself, asshole.
