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Just want to pop in and say that cutting my caffeine down from X00 mg a day to 50 mg (or 1 8 oz. cup of black tea) has made a considerable dent in my anxiety and sleep problems.
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Mar 7, 2019 19:22
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I just found out my first boyfriend got stabbed to death yesterday and I'm feeling all sorts of weird about it. A little panicky and fuzzy headed. I haven't really kept up with him since I was like 19 but I definitely wasn't expecting to scroll through google news and see him murdered. I somehow missed a bunch of snapchat messages from people telling me about it yesterday too so it was a little overwhelming opening them up and now trying to talk to everyone else who was a part or periphery to our friend group at the time
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Mar 7, 2019 19:55
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olives black posted:Just want to pop in and say that cutting my caffeine down from X00 mg a day to 50 mg (or 1 8 oz. cup of black tea) has made a considerable dent in my anxiety and sleep problems. This is actually a good point. I think a lot of office goons depend on coffee to power us through the day, but it seems like switching to half caff morning and decaf afternoon has made my life incredibly more pleasant. also: venting goons, you are heard, I am reading every post in this thread. one love
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Mar 7, 2019 21:07
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Aesop Poprock posted:I just found out my first boyfriend got stabbed to death yesterday and I'm feeling all sorts of weird about it. A little panicky and fuzzy headed. I haven't really kept up with him since I was like 19 but I definitely wasn't expecting to scroll through google news and see him murdered. I somehow missed a bunch of snapchat messages from people telling me about it yesterday too so it was a little overwhelming opening them up and now trying to talk to everyone else who was a part or periphery to our friend group at the time Sorry to hear that 
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Mar 7, 2019 21:35
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Despite years of therapy and being stable on medication, thinking about the future really stresses me out which makes things like budgets or social planning difficult.To even think about planning for the future in any capacity causes me great stress and anxiety as I genuinely have trouble imagining positives ahead of me or of myself. It seems like it's only going to get worse and worse, making it hard to plan ahead. I really want things to get better but I start to feel like the ironic apocalypse jokes are right and it makes me sad.
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Mar 7, 2019 21:44
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Quicksilver6 posted:Despite years of therapy and being stable on medication, thinking about the future really stresses me out which makes things like budgets or social planning difficult.To even think about planning for the future in any capacity causes me great stress and anxiety as I genuinely have trouble imagining positives ahead of me or of myself. It seems like it's only going to get worse and worse, making it hard to plan ahead.  as much as i enjoy reading c-spam, the "lol nothing matters" jokes can affect me mentally. like, what if nothing really matters? what if nothing changes and by the time i'm 40 i will be barely surviving in an honest-to-god post-apocalyptic world?
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Mar 7, 2019 21:57
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 I find that not making "lmao nothing matters" jokes helps a bit though. I once saved a document on how to deal with climate change anxiety, I'll post it here once I get home
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Mar 7, 2019 22:14
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Thank you. And I don't begrudge anyone for using gallows humor to deal with life in general, it's just that the sheer unflinching torrent of "we're all gonna die, lol" for like 3-4 years now takes its toll. It starts to feel less like a refreshing sip of nihilism and more like being blasted with a neverending firehose of doom.
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Mar 7, 2019 22:36
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an article about that ketamine-esque drug, esketamine: Fast-Acting Depression Drug, Newly Approved, Could Help Millions the website I found that link at has comments worth checking out: https://www.metafilter.com/179772/The-move-heralds-a-shift-from-the-Prozac-era-of-antidepressant-drugs
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Mar 7, 2019 23:06
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Aesop Poprock posted:I just found out my first boyfriend got stabbed to death yesterday and I'm feeling all sorts of weird about it. A little panicky and fuzzy headed. I haven't really kept up with him since I was like 19 but I definitely wasn't expecting to scroll through google news and see him murdered. I somehow missed a bunch of snapchat messages from people telling me about it yesterday too so it was a little overwhelming opening them up and now trying to talk to everyone else who was a part or periphery to our friend group at the time dang thats a ruff thing to read i had somethign similar happen once, the first girl i ever kissed owned herself drunk driving, and it was a terrible thing to read let yourself grieve if you feel the need to.
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Mar 7, 2019 23:51
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as a former death crew member I can 100% confirm that poo poo will destroy you if you wallow in it, it’s why I strapped this little raft together  don’t trump 24/7 it’s extremely bad for you Finicums Wake posted:an article about that ketamine-esque drug, esketamine: I have a support group buddy who uses micro doses of ketamine (under doctor supervision!) and he swears by it. i assume they found it by ramming particles of ketamine together at high speeds and creating microscopic k-holes. a special hardon kollider if you will
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Mar 8, 2019 00:56
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i want to get the ketamine so bad
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Mar 8, 2019 01:07
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Yeah if this had dropped yesterday I would have bothered my shrink about it.
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Mar 8, 2019 01:36
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my old psychiatrist moved away a few months ago. luckily, other doctors/nurse practicioners in the same office were able to take over her appointments, so i didn't spend anytime between docs with noone to refill my meds. my current antidepressant (viibryd), which i've been on for a while now, doesn't seem to work that well. my new dr, at my request, is switching me to another antidepressant the next time I go in. she put me on abilify ~a month ago because, apparently, having that in the mix while switching between SSRIs can make the transition easier. so far the abilify doesn't seem to effect me much. i guess i eat more, but that's it. so, in a few weeks i guess i'll be trying prozac. if anyone has experience with it, let me know how it was. i'm hoping this one works; i've tried so many antidepressants over the years that pretty soon i'll have nothing left to try but tricyclics or MAOIs. or now i guess (hope?) some kind of ketamine treatment. crossing my fingers that 1) a dem with a good healthcare plan is elected in 2020 2) is able to implement said plan 3) it covers that esketamine drug, because otherwise, given the cost, it's extremely unlikely i'd be able to try it even if my doctor thinks it's a good idea.
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Mar 8, 2019 02:35
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An old injury flared up, immobizing me all week. I had been doing well, feeling good and pain-free for about six months, and now it's back to to being real bad all of a sudden. I had to cancel both weekday work plans and weekend social plans. Felt a jolt of pain today and dropped my phone, shattering the screen. Falling behind on work, and also feeling generally miserable and hopeless about the future. Very drained, low energy, demotivated and self-pitying at the moment.
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Mar 8, 2019 03:41
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Aesop Poprock posted:I just found out my first boyfriend got stabbed to death yesterday and I'm feeling all sorts of weird about it. A little panicky and fuzzy headed. I haven't really kept up with him since I was like 19 but I definitely wasn't expecting to scroll through google news and see him murdered. I somehow missed a bunch of snapchat messages from people telling me about it yesterday too so it was a little overwhelming opening them up and now trying to talk to everyone else who was a part or periphery to our friend group at the time That sounds like it will take some time to fully process, and it is good to talk to people about your feelings
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Mar 8, 2019 03:43
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Pain sucks
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Mar 8, 2019 03:44
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Short and sweet, but I finally got on mood stabilizers and I've felt better than I've ever felt in my life.
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Mar 8, 2019 03:49
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Any side effects?
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Mar 8, 2019 03:57
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Finicums Wake posted:my old psychiatrist moved away a few months ago. luckily, other doctors/nurse practicioners in the same office were able to take over her appointments, so i didn't spend anytime between docs with noone to refill my meds. sertraline at 100 has been fantastic for me and one of the things the hospital tweaked that pulled me out of my tailspin. ask about Wellbutrin and/or Deplin. they can supplement an ssri and make it actually work right. Prozac was ehnnnnnn for me mostly I got fuzzy headed.
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Mar 8, 2019 04:00
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Tricky Dick Nixon posted:Short and sweet, but I finally got on mood stabilizers and I've felt better than I've ever felt in my life. grats op, welcome to bipolar crew   twoday posted:Any side effects? side effects may include: trump
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Mar 8, 2019 04:02
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twoday posted:Any side effects? Nausea, mainly, but nothing mood-related that I can tell. Aripiprazole to be exact. No light-headedness or dizziness as far as I can tell, but the nausea is a real thing I've noticed.
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Mar 8, 2019 04:29
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twoday posted:An old injury flared up, immobizing me all week. I had been doing well, feeling good and pain-free for about six months, and now it's back to to being real bad all of a sudden. I had to cancel both weekday work plans and weekend social plans. Felt a jolt of pain today and dropped my phone, shattering the screen. Falling behind on work, and also feeling generally miserable and hopeless about the future. Very drained, low energy, demotivated and self-pitying at the moment. these aren't going to offer any immediate solutions but are very good resources for learning about modern research on pain and pain management https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nifGFIuVkUk https://www.painscience.com/articles/pain-is-weird.php https://www.painscience.com/articles/structuralism.php http://www.greglehman.ca/pain-science-workbooks
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Mar 8, 2019 04:45
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Help, I was reading the climate change thread. 
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Mar 8, 2019 10:01
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One of the things I found to help is just to get a hobby. Like learn to make bread. Kneading the dough can be nice and relaxing.
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Mar 8, 2019 10:06
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Finicums Wake posted:so, in a few weeks i guess i'll be trying prozac. if anyone has experience with it, let me know how it was. i'm hoping this one works; i've tried so many antidepressants over the years that pretty soon i'll have nothing left to try but tricyclics or MAOIs. or now i guess (hope?) some kind of ketamine treatment. After I got health insurance through my job a few years ago I finally was able to go into a doctor and talk about how awful I felt emotionally because of my depression. He put me on a low dose of fluoxetine (generic Prozac) and that ended up being mostly all I needed; we shuffled the dose up and down a bit to just see where my sweet spot was but overall my experience was positive. When I started I noticed that I tended to hold on to the 'flavor' of my dreams between waking up in the morning and going to bed at night. This is a weird one and hard to describe in a more accurate way but it was the first thing I noticed. It also cut way down on the emotional symptoms of the depression (suicidal ideation, lack of interest in my hobbies, flattening out of emotions) and curbed but didn't completely get rid of the physical ones (hard to curb appetites, insomnia); to fully exorcise those I had to do some sort of exercise, pun sort of intended. Between the medication and regular exercise I was able to function unless poo poo got really hectic, and by then I had set up enough support mechanisms and habits in my regular life that I was able to weather those. I also was able to start doing things like budgeting and planning ahead, setting and keeping financial goals, mostly sticking to a healthy diet (except when I stopped exercising and the carb cravings came back) which creates a nice little feedback loop when depression creeps back. About the only other thing I noticed was a mild reduction in libido, but that's not something that matters all that much to me. Anyway, YMMV but that's been my experience with it.
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Mar 8, 2019 15:07
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Speaking of climate change and hobbies, one of my favorite hobbies is birdwatching and just generally being in nature, but the past few years I can’t get past the voice in the back of my head reminding me that the planet is dying. Trying to live in the moment and just enjoy things as they are, but gently caress, man.
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Mar 8, 2019 15:47
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Zyla posted:i want to get the ketamine so bad Yeah even my parents were hyping this up when I went out to lunch with them the other day. I mean actual ketamine always made me feel awesome so why not?
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Mar 8, 2019 16:01
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Aesop Poprock posted:Yeah even my parents were hyping this up when I went out to lunch with them the other day. I mean actual ketamine always made me feel awesome so why not? cspam.txt  redsniper posted:Help, I was reading the climate change thread. first thing to do is uh not do that.  climate change is one of those things I’ve had to fight to let go of. we still need to effect whatever small changes we can, and we definitely need to appreciate what we have now, while it’s here, but stewing about it constantly will accomplish nothing to change it and everything to make you miserable. of course that’s way way easier loving said than done
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Mar 8, 2019 16:17
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I stopped reading the climate change thread too, but there are still a thousand other political things that I can't do anything about, and I don't want to completely shut myself off from all news of the outside world. I just try not to get into arguments about them, and try to keep to places online where people agree with me, because I'm a coward who can't handle a proper debate (or someone who doesn't want to make themselves ill trying and failing to force a word in edgeways, one of the two).
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Mar 8, 2019 20:25
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big mood today, thinkin bout dat hypomania love 2 lock myself in a dark room under a weighted blanket to get my emotions under control
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Mar 8, 2019 20:32
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Chokes McGee posted:as a former death crew member I can 100% confirm that poo poo will destroy you if you wallow in it, it’s why I strapped this little raft together in this metaphor I am a powerful dolphin effortlessly swimming through the treacherous waters and getting high off pufferfish
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Mar 8, 2019 20:58
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Poniard posted:in this metaphor I am a powerful dolphin effortlessly swimming through the treacherous waters and getting high off pufferfish 
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Mar 8, 2019 21:10
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cool dance moves posted:
ok here's the pamphlet, courtesy of the Australian Psychological Society: Coping with Climate Change Distress tl;dr: praxis is the best medicine, but also take time to talk to others about your fears and take up creative pursuits Poniard posted:in this metaphor I am a powerful dolphin effortlessly swimming through the treacherous waters and getting high off pufferfish 
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Mar 8, 2019 21:15
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Panic Restaurant posted:Speaking of climate change and hobbies, one of my favorite hobbies is birdwatching and just generally being in nature, but the past few years I can’t get past the voice in the back of my head reminding me that the planet is dying. every time I go to the beach I end up going out until I'm up to my eyeballs while I stand. If I look out I see the void of the Gulf of Mexico, and when I turn back I see a coastline that will be ravaged within my lifetime. It's a hosed up dichotomy and the really sad thing is I usually can't even drum up the energy to go to the beach, or even exit my apartment, most days. Those beach experiences are me at my best.
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Mar 9, 2019 04:55
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cool dance moves posted:ok here's the pamphlet, courtesy of the Australian Psychological Society: Coping with Climate Change Distress added the link to the op, keep em comin
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Mar 9, 2019 05:47
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olives black posted:Just want to pop in and say that cutting my caffeine down from X00 mg a day to 50 mg (or 1 8 oz. cup of black tea) has made a considerable dent in my anxiety and sleep problems. there's some cool retract research about timing caffeine with cortisol spikes throughout the day to reduce jitters that worked really well for me, I'll try and find it also L-Theanine + caffeine is a godsend
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Mar 9, 2019 08:48
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Finicums Wake posted:an article about that ketamine-esque drug, esketamine: Esketamine is just the s isomer of ketamine which is normally racemic (the r isomer is a little less potent and has some slightly different affinities) for what it's worth the FDA did some major fuckery on this and the numbers are pretty bad. ketamine is routinely outperformed by good old dextromethorphan (yes the cough syrup) for treating depression. I've personally used both at a huge range of dosages for quite severe bipolar depression and I'll take the DXM any day of the week in terms of effectiveness. it's an NMDA antagonist like ketamine but the primary metabolites half life is waaaay longer so the mood lift lasts for weeks and not days. the real magic is that it's also a very unusual SSRI that hits some very specific receptor subtypes that other ssris don't that do fun stuff like upregulate BDNF, increasing neuroplasticity like you see in traditional psychedelics Moist von Lipwig has issued a correction as of 09:01 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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Mar 9, 2019 08:53
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now I'm not saying treat your depression with cough syrup buuut next time you're feeling down what do you have to lose by taking two tablespoons of Robitussin versus infusions of a drug that causes bladder cancer?
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Mar 9, 2019 08:56
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Syzurp to cure depression. Got it.
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Mar 9, 2019 12:14
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