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OP, I have had anxiety problems my whole life but since the isolation of the last two years they've really become much worse so I truly sympathise. I think seeing a GP is 100% the thing you should focus on right now. Book the appointment and make sure you turn up. Don't set any other goals for yourself than that for now, you can take it all one step at a time and this is the first and most important step. They will help you with some basic medication if need be which will just calm the erratic thoughts a bit so you can focus on other things to improve your mental health over time. There are a lot of services, some free, that hopefully your GP will be able to help you with.
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Mar 27, 2022 07:14
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talk to your GP OP medication helps sometimes
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Mar 27, 2022 07:21
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thanks guys.
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Mar 27, 2022 07:26
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do you hate your job?
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:the only thing i am afraid of is snakes. and I can handle that. It's not really fear. I don't know how to expain it. I used feel pretty severe anxiety before I had to do a night shift. I couldn't eat, had an elevated heart rate, sweaty palms, trouble sleeping the night before - all those sort of classic symptoms. I would go and I would talk to my therapist about it and I'd say "I feel really anxious when I have to work graveyard" and then we'd unpack it. Once unpacked it'd come out like "I feel anxiety before I work a graveyard shift because the office is completely empty and I feel alone and I'm afraid of being alone because of childhood traumas." This would happen every time I would bring up feeling anxious and one day she pointed out that what I'm saying is "I feel anxious because I feel afraid" and what if we just started with "I feel afraid"? That I (and everyone else she'd ever seen who talked about feeling anxious) was sublimating the feelings of fear I had by putting it behind this other more clinical and detached word. Anyway I don't know what your experience is. Maybe it's not fear you feel and some other emotion. Whatever it is I hope you can get a handle on it.
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Mar 27, 2022 07:29
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ben shapino posted:do you hate your job? lastt week i did. now I'm am elctrian again
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Mar 27, 2022 07:30
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:lastt week i did. now I'm am elctrian again so what makes you anxious?
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Mar 27, 2022 07:31
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if you smoke weed you could have hyperemesis syndrome.
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Mar 27, 2022 07:33
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ben shapino posted:so what makes you anxious? death. not even him. Its just me I am amanous
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Mar 27, 2022 07:34
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I wish i had the 'xiety. Its badass cos nobody can say you don't got it and it works against everythin. Don't wanna do something? 'xiety. I can't get no one to believe that i got it yet. It's like fibro miaglia but even faker
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Mar 27, 2022 07:38
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How do i convince them
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Mar 27, 2022 07:39
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usually displaying symptoms, like uncontrollable shaking, increased heart rate and breathing, and a severe sense of irrational panic will do it
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Mar 27, 2022 07:46
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Hahahahahahahaha How The gently caress Is Anxiety Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Entirety Of Reality Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha
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Mar 27, 2022 07:51
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Drink gin Worked for me
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Mar 27, 2022 07:53
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mumpy is your real name greg you could be gregnant
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Mar 27, 2022 08:00
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:mumpy is your real name greg no. but i kinda hate my uncle named Greg
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putin is a oval office posted:Hahahahahahahaha How The gently caress Is Anxiety Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Entirety Of Reality Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha tried it. just kept walking into walls
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Mar 27, 2022 08:06
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go sober for like a month. get a good 8 hours a night, get 20k steps a day, eat right. take a walk outside on your lunch. cut your caffeine intake down. alternatively get on chatroulette and show strangers your dick. dealing with people is super easy after that.
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:go sober for like a month. get a good 8 hours a night, get 20k steps a day, eat right. take a walk outside on your lunch. cut your caffeine intake down. I know you're coming from a good place and trying to help, but depression and anxiety are more complicated than "just do this" solutions. It's genuinely good advice and I think people should take it, but OP (and myself if I'm honest) needs to sort out his brain chemistry before he's even close to being in a place to actually put plans/routines like you've described into action.
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Mar 27, 2022 08:19
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:go sober for like a month. get a good 8 hours a night, get 20k steps a day, eat right. take a walk outside on your lunch. cut your caffeine intake down. what if I have already done the second step, and the first step doesn't interest me
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Mar 27, 2022 08:20
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Just get pills from the Dr like everyone else
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Mar 27, 2022 08:23
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putin is a oval office posted:I know you're coming from a good place and trying to help, but depression and anxiety are more complicated than "just do this" solutions. It's genuinely good advice and I think people should take it, but OP (and myself if I'm honest) needs to sort out his brain chemistry before he's even close to being in a place to actually put plans/routines like you've described into action. yeah, what they said
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Mar 27, 2022 08:23
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Go to therapy it works
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putin is a oval office posted:I know you're coming from a good place and trying to help, but depression and anxiety are more complicated than "just do this" solutions. It's genuinely good advice and I think people should take it, but OP (and myself if I'm honest) needs to sort out his brain chemistry before he's even close to being in a place to actually put plans/routines like you've described into action. its really easy though just unzip your loving pants and get a webcam, it doesnt have to be a regular thing
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go to a doctor and have them give you pills and therapy that will enable you do show your dick to strangers im joking mumpy i hope things get better for you and dude was right, i am just spitballing things from a place of genuine concern ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Mar 27, 2022 |
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Mar 27, 2022 08:31
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I've found you can cure this with alcohol but then you get an alcoholism problem just saying not endorsing
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dudes will literally post on SA instead of getting therapy
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Mar 27, 2022 09:03
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this thread has a lot of good usernames.
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:this thread has a lot of good usernames. Anxiety Bob Pile Of Doubt Homicide
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ben shapino posted:dudes will literally post on SA instead of getting therapy Your brain is literally your entire window to the world, so when it's not working correctly it's super loving hard for the person undergoing that to actually seek the right help. So yeah they will do that and also I'm glad you obviously haven't experienced this kind of problem, and I hope you never do.
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When I feel anxiety I prefer to consider the vast, unthinking and unfeeling universe and how much lesser than a speck of dirt the entire human history is in the grand scheme of things, and how my own experience is even proportionally lesser. Let Azathoth worry.
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Mar 27, 2022 12:03
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Azathoth is a little bitch and you can take him in a fist fight OP. Start thinking about entrance music. You got this.
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Hi OP. Bloodfart McCoy here. You mentioned “work” so this implies you have benefits and health insurance. I suggest you use this health insurance to book an appointment with a doctor. They will give you a boatload of Xanax and you will do zonked out of your mind you won’t give a poo poo if you dick was on fire. Problem solved.
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Mar 27, 2022 12:21
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For the medication part you'd best be cautious of any benzo types. They are horribly addictive.
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Mar 27, 2022 13:37
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Try cognitive behavioral therapy/cock-and-ball torture before resorting to benzos. If you try out a therapist and find out they're the wrong one for you then ditch them before you've had a year with zero progress. Even the lesser benzos make you feel tired, and you need the assistance of an actually good psychiatrist to go off them properly. Don't take Buspirone since it is a trash medication that doesn't do anything.
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putin is a oval office posted:OP (and myself if I'm honest) needs to sort out his brain chemistry before he's even close to being in a place to actually put plans/routines like you've described into action. You can attempt lifestyle improvements AND seek professional help, in fact
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Are you divorcing with 3 kids because your wife refuses to work, making you pay all the bills, working two jobs, 7 days a week, then decides to be a whore, cheats on you with a fisherman and one day come home to all your clothes in the driveway? Then have your child support amount set from your income of working 7 days a week with overtime? That would be pretty tough. Hang in there buddy. Just keep swimming.
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putin is a oval office posted:Hahahahahahahaha How The gently caress Is Anxiety Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Entirety Of Reality Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha OK this is the best use of that I've ever seen lol Separately I got anxiety after menopause [now I KNOW that's not your situation] but because I only had run of the mill depression my whole life I can say that for me at least anxiety is way way loving worse than depression. It's been a few years now it comes and goes. I found one medication that helped for 6 months and the whole time I'm like oh my God this is what normal people lives are like; it was loving pretty awesome. But then it quit working. I was pretty lucky really the few things I tried that didn't work I didn't really get massive side effects they just didn't work. If you are fortunate enough to have insurance use i! Use it massively and tell them what's going on. What helped me probably the most was realizing that's what was wrong and reading about it and reading what cognitive behavioral therapy has to say about it. Get your regular health checked too I had high blood pressure and now that that's under control I feel better. But seriously there's a lot on the internet out there about anxiety get yourself educated. Last thing I'll say the worst thing you can do for anxiety is avoid things. I'm serious. Procrastination was my lifestyle so maybe it just built up so much that I ended up with anxiety I don't know. You can PM me if you want more information everyone's right to not use benzos I never have. I sure hope you have insurance and I sure hope you use it! You're obnoxious but I care about you anyway
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Mumpy, mindfulness is one of the only things that helped me with chronic anxiety. But I second the see your GP as well
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