What anxiety-reducing techniques do you use?

Since many of you seem to have anxiety problems, what anxiety reducing techniques do you use?

I take St Johns Wort, 900mg a day.

I slough, frequently.

Drugs, meditation, exercise, philosophy (taoism the pretty much "don't give a f**k" spread into a belief system), sleep.
Feels good man.

Marijuana, sunshine, and dub.

Drugs, meditation, exercise, philosophy (taoism the pretty much "don't give a f**k" spread into a belief system), sleep.
Feels good man.

OP here. I was given beta blockers but they did f**k all.
Excercise did seem to help.
I don't get anxiety as bad I used to, but I can sense it coming back slightly so I'm trying to ward it off as much as possible.
As for meditation, would you have any recommendations/techniques to share?

Marijuana, sunshine, and dub.

OP again. Weed makes me anxious now, unfortunately :( smoked heavily for a few years and now it just makes me have a panic attack.

Epilepsy medication. Thank God I'm epileptic because Tegretol controls anxiety. I always know when I've forgotten to take it because I start worrying about everything, also paranoia that people hate me. If I have nothing to worry about I still have a strong sense of unease.
Anyone else on Tegretol?

I just tell myself f**k you, life doesn't matter just do it you die in the end anyways.

Music and cognitive therapy.

I just freak myself out more until my mind shuts down and the primitive parts that are left functioning say "f**k it". Probably not a healthy way to live.

OP here. I was given beta blockers but they did f**k all.
Excercise did seem to help.
I don't get anxiety as bad I used to, but I can sense it coming back slightly so I'm trying to ward it off as much as possible.
As for meditation, would you have any recommendations/techniques to share?

> I was given beta blockers but they did f**k all.
NO, just NO.
I mean recreational drugs. Don't underestimate the long term relaxation of spending one evening at least once a week completely careless, in a perfect drug induced euphoria. I mean alcohol, opiates, benzos, f**k even stimulants. Non-psychedelic recreational drugs are perfect for creating that "I don't care, I'm happy now" feeling.
Psychedelic drugs are good too, but for a different reason. Whilst other drugs are specifically for feel good, psychedelics are taken for open-mindedness. This expansion of your mind can help you solve problems in your life, giving you a very unique form of stress relief.
Do NOT take SSRIs or anything of similar. These are meant to be used in the extreme long term (years). Taking drugs like this is never a good idea. Even if you're taking opiates for pain, it's better to get surgery than to live your life on them.
> Excercise did seem to help.
Exercise, and I mean intense exercise, can create a chemical make up in your mind that's similar to many stimulants. Very helpful.
> As for meditation, would you have any recommendations/techniques to share?
This is hard to answer, everyone has a different technique. The end result should be similar, as in a lowered heart rate which should be followed by an increase of energy, increase of concentration and in some cases euphoria (especially when you meditate on drugs).
Unfortunately, I don't have words for how I meditate. It's actually something I learned when I was high on shrooms. It has something to do with how I breath, how I perceive the world and waves.

Hey OP, I take beta blockers too.
Just so you know, it's not supposed to help your anxiety, it's supposed to kill the physical symptoms you might experience in response to anxiety. It's helped me do that (my hands and sometimes knees shake when nervous).

Smoke trees everyday.

Hey OP, I take beta blockers too.
Just so you know, it's not supposed to help your anxiety, it's supposed to kill the physical symptoms you might experience in response to anxiety. It's helped me do that (my hands and sometimes knees shake when nervous).

When I say they did f**k all, they literally did f**k all. I still got all the physical symptoms.

Klonopin. 1ml will take your anxiety away far better then some kind of meditation

Therapy. I'm not sure if it works at all, but it's fun and reminds me of The Sopranos.

I take St Johns Wort, 900mg a day.

I used to take that too, made me feel odd though
to OP: one of the best for me is white noise. I'll turn on the washing machine and drier at the same time, or turn on a faucet and just focus on the noise of the faucet, or turn on the shower and sit there and enjoy the noise.

Well, I grew a pair. I realized anxiety is a normal feeling and I'm feeling it for a reason. Taking pills for anxiety is like using the handbrake when the actual brakes on your car are broken.

Since many of you seem to have anxiety problems, what anxiety reducing techniques do you use, anons?

Buspar

klonopin.

When I say they did f**k all, they literally did f**k all. I still got all the physical symptoms.

Oh, that sucks. Maybe you could ask for a stronger dose? Not sure. They don't completely get rid of them for me either, though they do help.

Well, I grew a pair. I realized anxiety is a normal feeling and I'm feeling it for a reason. Taking pills for anxiety is like using the handbrake when the actual brakes on your car are broken.

This person has never experienced anxiety that hindered their ability to function in the relevant situation.
Sorry, you can't just "MAN UP" when your legs are about to give out and you have to sh*t and puke and piss and you're shivering and weak, because you've lost control of your f**king body thanks to the anxiety.

Well, I grew a pair. I realized anxiety is a normal feeling and I'm feeling it for a reason. Taking pills for anxiety is like using the handbrake when the actual brakes on your car are broken.

What a load of crap.

I stay away from things that might accidental kill me, like crowds and roads.

Oh, that sucks. Maybe you could ask for a stronger dose? Not sure. They don't completely get rid of them for me either, though they do help.

This person has never experienced anxiety that hindered their ability to function in the relevant situation.
Sorry, you can't just "MAN UP" when your legs are about to give out and you have to sh*t and puke and piss and you're shivering and weak, because you've lost control of your f**king body thanks to the anxiety.

I've been in some situations where I've felt that way. I'm not a very emotional person so I didn't let that affect me for long. A few moments to calm myself. Have you ever actually fallen to the floor, pissing and puking all the time while shivering like crazy? No, because that doesn't happen. You just need to remember that the feeling will be over eventually and what you think is true (going to die, puke, whatever) might not be true after all.
Please describe one of the situations where you feel like this.

I have the dumbest anxiety ever, I have a phobia for throwing up, but managed to do it once due to whatever.
Anyhow, I started worrying about throwing up all the time, to the point of where just going to the store would make me feel ill.
I've pretty much gone unemployed for around a year due to this, in retrospect I should have visited a doctor or something I guess.

I use paxil, 30mg a day. now I just don't give a f**kkkk

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I've been in some situations where I've felt that way. I'm not a very emotional person so I didn't let that affect me for long. A few moments to calm myself. Have you ever actually fallen to the floor, pissing and puking all the time while shivering like crazy? No, because that doesn't happen. You just need to remember that the feeling will be over eventually and what you think is true (going to die, puke, whatever) might not be true after all.
Please describe one of the situations where you feel like this.

You know what you should do? You should shut your c**t mouth as your posts are as worthy as ni**er precum.

You know what you should do? You should shut your c**t mouth as your posts are as worthy as ni**er precum.

You again?
I guess you like the attention you get from having "panic attacks" or whatever sh*t you've read from wikipedia. I bet it brings some joy into your virginal life to blame all your problems on a minor problem people think is a permanent mental condition.

I shut outside stimulations down, inhale or down some hand sanitizer, lock myself in a bathroom stall and repeat random mantras while punching or pinching myself.
When I was a kid I use to cut myself but this works better.

You again?
I guess you like the attention you get from having "panic attacks" or whatever sh*t you've read from wikipedia. I bet it brings some joy into your virginal life to blame all your problems on a minor problem people think is a permanent mental condition.

Since when this is about me? This is about you talking about things you don't know.

You again?
I guess you like the attention you get from having "panic attacks" or whatever sh*t you've read from wikipedia. I bet it brings some joy into your virginal life to blame all your problems on a minor problem people think is a permanent mental condition.

Get back to bee and quit sh*tting up my anonymous

Get back to bee and quit sh*tting up my anonymous

Since when this is about me? This is about you talking about things you don't know.

u mad, samef** namef**?
Hey, everyone feels bad every once in a while. Most people get over it. If you're not one of them enjoy your inferior brain and no future.

I tell myself I'm awesome, and it works. I'm serious.

I tell myself I'm awesome, and it works. I'm serious.

I do a similar thing only I block out the bad things in life, I ignore them and try to reinforce a positive look on life

I do a similar thing only I block out the bad things in life, I ignore them and try to reinforce a positive look on life

Thing with ignorance is, after some time things tend to resurface brother.
I try to face the sh*t, if it's hopeless I tell myself "f**k it, there's nothing you can do about it, better luck next time" and try to close that particular chapter.

I have the dumbest anxiety ever, I have a phobia for throwing up, but managed to do it once due to whatever.
Anyhow, I started worrying about throwing up all the time, to the point of where just going to the store would make me feel ill.
I've pretty much gone unemployed for around a year due to this, in retrospect I should have visited a doctor or something I guess.

OP here. I get the same as well. I've never actually thrown up from it but it makes me feel so nauseous that I'm constantly afraid of being sick

u mad, samef** namef**?
Hey, everyone feels bad every once in a while. Most people get over it. If you're not one of them enjoy your inferior brain and no future.

lol, he's butthurt because I, someone other than that guy, am implying he's an a**hole. And he's going to reply to this because he is so butthurt, trying to cover for his feelings.

I don't use any. I just wait for it to pass. Nothing's worked for me.

st johns wort when i know its going to be a bad day
other than that, it's in the hardware, the only way to stop it is to shut down (suicide)

OP here. So does St. Johns Wort actually work?

OP you come across like an annoying fa**ot

OP you come across like an annoying fa**ot

Well, thanks. I'm just asking personal opinions.
Maybe I should stop writing "OP here" then.

I take a 40-60 minute walk each day.
I also try to have strict routines. Imo life is meaningless, and doing boring tasks each day has no impact on my life but giving it meaning.
I look forward to the next day's "Dailies"; something I learned from playing WoW.

I have the dumbest anxiety ever, I have a phobia for throwing up, but managed to do it once due to whatever.
Anyhow, I started worrying about throwing up all the time, to the point of where just going to the store would make me feel ill.
I've pretty much gone unemployed for around a year due to this, in retrospect I should have visited a doctor or something I guess.

I have this also, its horrible because the more anxious you get the more sick feeling and the anxiety of being sick heightens.

For OCD things like needing to have 'balance' in your body (ex. if you accidentally knock your foot into something, you must knock your other foot into something) just don't do the action like knocking your other foot. There will be no supernatural effect that causes something bad to happen to you. The uneveness that not performing this action could potentially cause is much less than that caused by using only one arm or leg to do things, only cracking the knuckles on one bodypart but not the one on the other side of the body, and bad posture. Plus, even only using one arm or one leg while doing many things will not lead to great muscular or skeletal problems for most people, unless these actions include heavy lifting or repeatedly lifting slightly heavy things. Any type of effect not performing the compulsive action could have on your mood, how your mind is working, or a 'sub-conscious' part of your mind is probably not great and I assume goes away once you have not performed the compulsive action enough times and no longer feel compelled to perform that action. Not dealing with compulsions and performing repetitive acts gives you more time in your life to do things.

What are the best drugs to reduce physical symptoms such as sweating and shaking?

For OCD things like needing to have 'balance' in your body (ex. if you accidentally knock your foot into something, you must knock your other foot into something) just don't do the action like knocking your other foot. There will be no supernatural effect that causes something bad to happen to you. The uneveness that not performing this action could potentially cause is much less than that caused by using only one arm or leg to do things, only cracking the knuckles on one bodypart but not the one on the other side of the body, and bad posture. Plus, even only using one arm or one leg while doing many things will not lead to great muscular or skeletal problems for most people, unless these actions include heavy lifting or repeatedly lifting slightly heavy things. Any type of effect not performing the compulsive action could have on your mood, how your mind is working, or a 'sub-conscious' part of your mind is probably not great and I assume goes away once you have not performed the compulsive action enough times and no longer feel compelled to perform that action. Not dealing with compulsions and performing repetitive acts gives you more time in your life to do things.

This was me.
Also, I used to perform actions like that 'balancing' my body, balancing out my movements, and repeating other bodily actions until I felt 'right' and have anxious intrusive thoughts fairly frequently from the ages of about 15 or 16 to right about a few months before I turned 18. I would have intrusive thoughts quite frequently throughout the day and would feel the need to do those actions often when I was at home and school.
I don't know if I changed medications during the end of this period and I know I the exterior of my body didn't appear to have grown much during this period. I can remember sometimes thinking to myself about the insignifigance of these actions in the way I described, that having thoughts that seem abnormal or against social norms are often more common than you would think and do not make you as crazy or weird as people like I was often think they are, and that making a big deal about the fact that you had these thoughts can often make them happen more often and be more 'severe' and that accepting that you had these thoughts and understanding why you keep having them (probably because you keep making a bid deal out of them) and, possibly, understanding why you first had them. (sorry for the long sentence) And also I remember performing sorts of emmersions in the subject of my intrusive thoughts that seemed to have an effect like emmersion therapy and altering my intrusive thoughts so that they aren't as 'severe' (ex. If you had an intrusive thought about you murdering someone or someone murdering you, you change the image of you stabbing them with a knife to you stabbing them with a banana or a fake knife).

OP here. I get the same as well. I've never actually thrown up from it but it makes me feel so nauseous that I'm constantly afraid of being sick

I have this also, its horrible because the more anxious you get the more sick feeling and the anxiety of being sick heightens.

Whoo. I thought I was alone when it came to that and yeah, my experience is just like yours, once it starts up it keeps spiraling towards getting worse really.
I've found out I can deal with it when I have a "exit" though, a spot where I know I could throw up if it happens. Granted this royally messes me up when there's no such place.

This was me.
Also, I used to perform actions like that 'balancing' my body, balancing out my movements, and repeating other bodily actions until I felt 'right' and have anxious intrusive thoughts fairly frequently from the ages of about 15 or 16 to right about a few months before I turned 18. I would have intrusive thoughts quite frequently throughout the day and would feel the need to do those actions often when I was at home and school.
I don't know if I changed medications during the end of this period and I know I the exterior of my body didn't appear to have grown much during this period. I can remember sometimes thinking to myself about the insignifigance of these actions in the way I described, that having thoughts that seem abnormal or against social norms are often more common than you would think and do not make you as crazy or weird as people like I was often think they are, and that making a big deal about the fact that you had these thoughts can often make them happen more often and be more 'severe' and that accepting that you had these thoughts and understanding why you keep having them (probably because you keep making a bid deal out of them) and, possibly, understanding why you first had them. (sorry for the long sentence) And also I remember performing sorts of emmersions in the subject of my intrusive thoughts that seemed to have an effect like emmersion therapy and altering my intrusive thoughts so that they aren't as 'severe' (ex. If you had an intrusive thought about you murdering someone or someone murdering you, you change the image of you stabbing them with a knife to you stabbing them with a banana or a fake knife).

I recently turned 19 and feel less of a need to perform those compulsive actions and have fewer and less 'severe' intrusive thoughts, now. I think doing what I described previously and above in this post at least played a part in me feeling less of a need to perform those compulsive actions and have fewer and less 'severe' intrusive thoughts.
(If anyone really wants me to explain more about the other parts or go more in detail about how I came to have fewer intrusive thoughts and compelled actions, I can but it will take a while. I might not finish writing it until tomorrow and have to post on this board at about the same time as it is now.)

i get drunk. but then i get alcohol withdrawl delerium and anxiety attacks, so i have to drink more. i freak out all the time. i can't even drink a can of pepsi because the caffeine will give me a panic attack later. pepsi max is the worst. i've been on medications, but none of them ever really fixed my anxiety. just made me boring and impotent and couldn't laugh. nothing will fix me.

I drink f**kloads of alcohol, it works quite well.

Whoo. I thought I was alone when it came to that and yeah, my experience is just like yours, once it starts up it keeps spiraling towards getting worse really.
I've found out I can deal with it when I have a "exit" though, a spot where I know I could throw up if it happens. Granted this royally messes me up when there's no such place.

yeah im the same, its related to agoraphobia, a fear normally regarded as 'open spaces' but its more of a lack of hiding place.

Zoloft.
That's pretty much it.

yeah im the same, its related to agoraphobia, a fear normally regarded as 'open spaces' but its more of a lack of hiding place.

So potentially I could get something for it?

1. masturbate.
2. watch horror movies while ripped to desensitize your brain