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Hello everyone,

So, my mom ticks all the crazy boxes, shes been an anti vaxx advocate for most of my life ( I had all my childhood shots before she got on the anti vaxx train thankfully) she's a David Ike follower, anti masker, conspiracy believing, narcissist that is convinced that people who are vaccinated are dangerous to my fertility. I am turning 30 this year, but due to covid and my long uni career, I am currently stuck living with her.

in my province, the vaccine just became available to people in my age group and I signed up. I get it on the 15th of this month. For a few hours, I felt great about it and then the anxiety kicked in. I don't know how to explain it and my partner can't fully understand how I feel. This will be one of the first big decisions I will have made for myself that goes against my mother's beliefs, and when you defy her, things get real nasty. I have always challenged her and been my own person, but the years of narcissistic abuse is affecting me bug time right now. I don't fully understand why but I am so scared of how she will react if she finds out, I feel horrible for lying about it since I was programed since birth that I have to tell her everything and get her permission to do anything... I think it is worse this time because up until a few years ago, I used to be anti vaxx too. It was how I was raised. I don't believe it anymore and I trust the science, but choosing to go and get my first vaccine in 20 years has been emotionally hard, knowing she would freak out makes it worse, and the fact that I can't have family support for doing something that scares the crap out of me makes me feel alone and isolated. My anxiety won't go away and I need to feel at peace about my choice.

Everyone on this forum has had to deal with the emotional side of standing apart from your family members that have gone down the hole, you all feel the pain of losing them, of losing the relationship you had, the pain of just needing to fight to keep yourself sane when they bombard you with scare false facts... Every day my mom walks around the house saying how every vaccinated person will die within the next year... I'm so tired and I wish I came from a normal family that doesn't live in an alternate reality where the world is out to get them.

So I thought I would come here and say hi, I'm scared, I'm doing a big thing for myself, and I just hate how horrible it feels to chose myself.

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hi all! delete if not allowed (not asking for advice, just anecdotes!). i just want to hear, if anyone's comfortable, about your experiences at OTF with anti-anxiety medication. i'm on lexapro for the first time and i'm finding that getting splats are harder because my heart rate isn't jacked up from anxiety, and also that no matter how healthy i eat or how many times a week i attend, my weight either stays stable or goes up. just wanting to hear if i am being unreasonable for thinking about asking for a switch?

eta: thank you everyone for sharing- I’m so grateful we can have an open discussion about mental health and the methods we’re using to help ourselves!!

I have abused md and other druvs during this last uear and now i have fear of speaking to ppl even simple stuff. When i speak to ppl or around ppl i just sit quiet i cant hold a convo or anything. Like if i have to speak to someone i can sit a week and have dread before and when i speak everything is nonsense.

I am past the stage where i go to a therapist. Is there a drug where i can be social again. Even alcohol does not work like i have social anxiety and sit quiet when i am pissed drunk after a bottle of 40%

I have a history of health anxiety but I’ve had it pretty under control and haven’t fixated on a health issue in a while, even through out this whole pandemic. But the covid vaccine is REALLY getting to me. I fell into reading conspiracies and anti-vaxx BS and even though logically I know better, my anxiety is latching on so tightly. I was going to get my 1st dose of the vaccine (moderna) but I got too scared and canceled. I eventually rescheduled for a new appointment (pfizer) for this upcoming Tuesday and I’m worried I’ll back out again. I can’t stop reading and “researching.” I’ll read some baseless conspiracy theory, get freaked out, research credible information to ease my anxiety, but now I have so much information in my head I can’t process it all and I can’t rationalize and figure out what’s real anymore. So many stories of people dying suddenly or seriously damaging their health and even if it’s all nonsense my anxiety doesn’t see it any other way. Help :(

EDIT: Thank you so much for all of your kind messages and helping me feel better. I keep going back and forth between relief and panic and I think it's best that I cancel and try again later because I'm worrying myself sick.

I’ve had my HPV, measles, diphtheria, tetanus and rubella vaccine and all vaccines from birth. However, I genuinely don’t trust the new vaccine, I don’t know why. It just panics me. A lot of misinformation is online but for someone with pure OCD it’s difficult to distinguish that from reality and the thoughts of “if you take this you’ll die” thoughts that just run through my head, is anyone else like this? Not anti vax but terrified of the covid one

Edit: Thank you for all the kind comments, you are all making me feel so much better :3

Looking for others’ perspectives. I’m just about a month in and I go to meetings, have briefly shared once or twice, let people know I was new, etc. What I haven’t brought myself to do is talk to people much one-on-one or get a single telephone number. Sometimes I try and then the person just moves on to say hi to someone else. I’m very anti-social. I often say there are two kinds of people: those who are outgoing, and those who are not going. I’m in the latter group. I broke through that fear enough to go to meetings, read the literature, open up to my wife, and pray. I know that I want sobriety for the rest of my life. I also know I am not working the program without interacting with others, getting a sponsor, and doing service work. I’m not afraid to identify as an alcoholic. I’m afraid of people and beating myself up mentally for being awkward or saying something I perceive as stupid. I was in AA for a time once before and I dove right in until my sponsor said to meet him at a Dunkin Donuts and then he started going over the Big Book with me right there in public, in my neighborhood. He didn’t tell me that’s what we were doing. I thought we were heading to a meeting together. I told him I thought he was risking my anonymity and he didn’t care. I know that is a resentment I carry and coupled with years of social isolation I just have not been able to bring myself to get numbers, talk to people, and get even a temporary sponsor. Anyone else have these challenges? Any suggestions for how to go about changing so I can truly start being in the program and not just in the rooms? Thanks in advance. My apologies if this isn’t in line with the forum’s guidelines.

i feel like becoming more anti-social is the case with me

i’ve been working through a lot of trauma stuff the past half year and maybe the work has depleted my energy, but i feel like i am just more introverted than ever.

or maybe i am honouring my authentic self by not forcing myself to be more social or feeling like i need to have a lot of friends.

either way, i feel so indifferent and almost allergic to people

my healing work has led me to be more discerning than ever and i’m realizing a lot of people aren’t very healed. that or i just don’t have much to say or much interest in bonding emotionally

Kind of hurts to have someone you just told about your mental health issues, say it’s because you’re not their religion and god would have fixed it.

I have been taking the stack below for a year, which has transformed my life and helped me overcome a lifetime of anxiety and depression issues. Like many others I am always looking to improve and add or remove nootropics, I would like to try Cistanche having read about some of the benefits such as libido and general well being. I can't find much information about the interactions of Cistanche with SSRIs (Sertraline in my case), I am looking to taper off sertraline this year.

Stack

Lions Mane 10:1 - 1g Reishi Spore Triterpene Crystals - 0.5g Cordyceps - 1g OMEGA 3-6-9 - Flax Seed Oil, Borage Oil, EPA, DHA (3 soft gels). Boron - 3mg Zinc - 25mg Vit D3 - 1000 IU Creatine - 4g Lemon Balm Tea

SSRI - Sertraline - 100mg

Thanks in advance for any advice, FYI I am 40 and wish I had found a community like this much earlier in life, but better late than never 😊. Any other tweaks to my stack are greatly appreciated.

Hello Hederians and hello future! With the recent bloodshed in the crypto market recently, many may feel anxiety about the future of it all. I found the best cure to this short term emotion is objective fact and hope based on evidence. The price of Hbar has many factors, it seems at the current moment demand is coming from two places: speculation and transaction demand. We know speculation is very unstable, but what about transaction demand? Use cases currently running on Hedera fuel this demand. Here are a list of use cases currently operating on hedera(non exhaustive list) -everywhere(medical use case) -safe health systems inc -adsdax -tune.fm -coupon bureau -Hala systems crisis prevention -power transition -TOKO -dropp I missed a few but the current use of this DLT amount to 5million transactions a day, the next list is jaw dropping in potential transaction volume! this is enterprises planning on platform and product launches soon(non exhaustive): -eftpos micropayments -atma.io -Coupon bureau full scale -trusted sla’s -calaxy This next list is the final one, no official use cases announced from these enterprises, but it does not require much thought to realize the implications of these things(non exhaustive): -standard bank, stable coins for Africa and possible CBDC -Shinhan bank, direct statement of intent to build fintech off Hedera, and very likely South Korean CBDC built on Hedera -contender for US CBDC through emtech

Hedera hashgraph is poised to become the most used DLT in a few weeks, it truly is spreading out like Hedera, slowly but surely wrapping itself around everything in its way. One day the DLT world will look around and realize Hedera is touching everything, and the only thing that runs through the Hedera vine is something you have hbarbarian, it is the one thing that keeps the vine alive, Hbar. HODL.

Hey all! I am planning to get the J&J shot next week, I could really use some encouragement, and maybe some advice on if there’s something I can take OTC that will take the edge off.

I’ve had an intense phobia of needles for my entire adult life, stemming from a medical abuse situation at age 12 that involved an injection. Getting vaccinated will be my first needle work of any type in more than ten years. I started working on the phobia in therapy before any vaccine was even released to the public, because I knew I would need to get a shot once a covid vaccine was developed. I now have an entire arsenal of stuff to help, including the Buzzy vibration device, the Shot Blocker, that skin numbing cream, and anti-anxiety techniques from exposure therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and NLP. But, I’m still very nervous. I’m thinking that once I get through this, it could actually help me feel more free from the phobia, and then I can progress to getting some suggested blood tests.

I’m generally fine in medical situations and situations involving pain. I’ve >!gone through a botched IUD insertion without anesthetic, pulled a sewing needle out of my own foot, and accidentally stuck the tip of a blender blade under my thumbnail,!< and kept my composure in all of those situations. It’s very specifically medical type needles.

The first thing that happens is, if I’m waiting in a doctor’s office and I know I’m there to try and get a shot or a blood draw, my vision and hearing will suddenly get really sharp, and I can hear all the background noise and conversations that my brain normally filters out. The world just feels really noisy. Then I get lightheaded, and eventually I start to hear my heartbeat and pulse, and my hands start shaking. If the nurse is there and actually preparing to give me the shot, sometimes I’ve had my arm jerk away from them without me feeling like I was controlling it.

I wasn't able to find any therapist in my area accepting new patients who does exposure therapy, but I've been doing self-directed exposure therapy, which has actually been great. So, I’m feeling confident that I can get it done. But a little cheerleading would be awesome. :D Planning to maybe do it this weekend, because I have a big work project wrapping up at the end of this week, so if I do get sick from the side effects, I want it to be after the project is wrapped up.

Also, if anyone has tips for something I can take that could help, I could test-run that b

So I am in treatment, but have been diagnosed with illness anxiety. The pandemic was bad enough, but getting the vaccines was nightmarish. I had to call the advice nurse before going both times just so I could get a professional to confirm I would be safe, and my mother called to tell me she had a "bad feeling" I was going to die, in our family, her bad feelings were "always right and meant someone was going to die." She also cried a lot and said a lot of other hurtful things in an attempt to stop me.

So, I have another friend, she actually had no idea she had it, but I reached out and she told me what she went through for years and I was like, "there's a name for that, and a treatment." But she went through the same thing I did, the fear, anxiety, and the knowledge that our minds were about to torture us for weeks or months after getting the vaccine. It doesn't help the the Google algorithm sends terrifying and untrue articles to people like me, which is the worst. And don't even get me started on the family of that woman who died who told the news it was the vaccine, then refused to share the autopsy with the public. That's a special kind of dishonesty.

It got me thinking, how many of us kids if qanon people suffer with this problem because our parents were so insane or neglectful with our health as children?

I have been using phenibut twice a week and noticed that alot of my procrastination stems from being to anxious. I was wondering if there is a NMDA drug that might work for daily treatment of anxiety. Another thing to note is I'm from Canada.

Prozac did nothing except gave me occasional manic episodes and vivid nightmares that made anxiety worse.

Lexapro did nothing except vivid nightmares that made anxiety worse.

Wellbutrin did nothing.

Beta blockers did nothing.

Seroquel does nothing but has made me irritable, violent thoughts, occasional sleep paralysis and incredibly vivid nightmares that made the day after taking it a living hell.

I have been to school less than a dozen times this year and whenever I hang out with friends I just get a paralyzing feeling of dread that gets worse the longer I'm around anyone, I rarely get the courage to make eye contact, talk or even move and when I do I pick apart every little mistake and obsess over them for months. It's gotten much worse since late 2017 when this started happening. Around halfway through 2019 it got so bad that I started getting drunk almost every time I was around anybody or I would be so overwhelmed I would just leave. Because of my high alcohol tolerance even though I'm decently underweight I've had to steal hundreds of dollars worth of alcohol over the last few years to keep myself from being a lonely sack of shit wasting away at my desk. Some days I'll feel so laidback and have amazing conversations with people and really feel a connection with my friends but those days have gotten less and less frequent. I exercise daily, I've tried meditating, behavioral therapy, I've been to an inpatient unit 3 times, quitting alcohol for months, weed makes it so much worse, I'm losing hope when all I have to look forward to is trying risperidone or abilify after my next psychiatrist appointment. I've been through 2 different psychiatrists that just wanted to put me on more ssri's and I can't put myself through that again. I think they've made the nightmares more common seeing as I barely had any before the prozac and even more and worse ones directly after the lexapro. I don't want to become an alcoholic like my mother and my last hope is using ativan to turn my life around.

Really? All they seem to do to me is make my eyes itchy in the mooring and groggy through the day

Hi all. I am graduating this upcoming week with my bachelor’s in elementary education. I am planning to be a teacher and had an interview & demo lesson this week. I have felt lots of anxiety in my life and stress that I’ve always worked through and dealt with. But the day before my demo I had a few mental breakdowns and was sobbing because of how stressed and anxious I was. I keep finding myself losing it because of all the stress and change and anxiety. Is this normal or should I consider going on anti anxiety meds?

Hi All,

I am a 27 year old guy and young professional who tried Buspar one 5 mg 8 days ago ( Monday the 26th) and have since experienced severe brain fog. I woke up the next day feeling similar to a severe hangover, pressure in my eyes, pressure on the top and back of my head, and severe haziness. I thought it would go away after a few days but now, 8 days later, it has remained. I am incredibly concerned as I have to start preparing for a very difficult exam for 12 weeks and feel like I am having trouble reading, focusing, and thinking clearly. This is not anxiety because I’ve had some Generalized anxiety for a while and was always sharp. I pretty much feel somewhat drunk ( but in a bad way) constantly.

I am desperate for answers as my doctor pretty much told me he didn’t know what to tell me. I specifically told him I did not want anything that could impair memory or cognition because it’s so vital for my profession.

Thank you in advance for any advice🙏

Currently waiting in the parking lot at the vet. We know medication might be our only route with our anxious dog, she has new anxiety in her own house due to noises upstairs and we haven’t been able to leave her home alone without leaving her in the back yard. She’s clearly in a lot of distress but I worry about the ethics of medicating a dog who can’t tell you how she’s feeling. If you have experience, I would love to hear about getting your dog on anxiety meds, what the transition was like and whether or not it has helped.

Hey, So I’ve used mydayis and adderall xr in the past with a lot of success but it didn’t resolve my chronic anxiety issues.

I see a lot of people go for Wellbutrin or dopamine type anxiety aids but then there’s lexapro and Effexor types, so I’m just wondering what the 1-2 punch usually is for us high anxiety adhd users who plan to use both adhd and anti/anxiety / depressive type medications

Hey guys. So yesterday my psychiatrist prescribed me Lexapro, and of course all of the questions I should've asked I didn't because I panicked. It's for anxiety, but now I've come to a roadblock: I'm freaking out about starting it.

I already get really bad headaches and stomaches almost daily, and I know those are a few of the side effects. I fucking love my sex drive, and honestly don't know if less anxiety is worth losing that.

I'm also going on vacation next week and really, really don't want my time there spent adjusting to this medication.

I'm not looking for medical advice, maybe just advice in general. Because honestly I'm thinking of never even picking it up from the pharmacy. I should've come to the appointment with a list of questions, but of course I can't go back and undo that. Thanks in advance.

Has anyone been evaluated for antidepressants or anti anxiety medications due to their floaters? Previous to mine I loved spending time outdoors - hiking, biking, camping, working out etc. But these things have taken a serious toll on my mental health, I still try to go out and enjoy my hobbies but there is always this underlying dread and unhappiness. I’ve had several vacations just ruined from these things, not gone to the gym bc I was so fed up with them that day, etc.

Some days are better than others, but they are impossible to ignore and cause me so much distress on a daily basis. I’m tired of living like this, if there is nothing I can do to rid the floaters then I at least need some help getting my mind off them/accepting them. I just want to get back some sort of normalcy in my life.

Tips ? And do I need two jars or should I do one ?

I have been off anxiety meds for about 7-8 months but do know I need to go back on. I’ve found it really difficult in the past to find something that works for me and doesn’t flare my bladder (usually it’s retention if it’s an SSRI). Lexapro worked great but I couldn’t handle the weight gain. I am meeting with my primary care doc in a few weeks and wanted to have a suggestion ready for her about what I could try. Please let me know what has worked for any of you with a similar issue. Thanks so much.

In good health, Whitney

I swear when I take an anti-anxiety medication like klonopin or Ativan my symptoms are a lot better. Does this happen to anyone else?

Starting to see things clearer, no longer afraid to look in the mirror.

I don’t need to see perfection, controlling my thoughts no election.

Hear my voice, no inflection.

Check my emotions at the door, close inspection.

Was lost, moving in the wrong direction.

Turned around, made a correction.

Never looking back, learned a lesson.

Proud to say, this is my confession.

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Hello guys! I'm new into herbalism and i've got a question. Is it safe to mix: lemon balm, valerian root, passionflower, chamomile, hops, lavender and oat into a 1:1 tincture? Would you give me any recipe with these herbs, so i won't f... it up? Thanks a lot in advance! I just need some GABA :p

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