re: What do you do to combat anxiety?

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Edibles suck. Never understood the love for them on the internet.

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I took a few classes on pharmacodynamics, pharmacokenitics, neuropharmacology, etc while at LSU. One professor was notorious for his pharmacokenitics lecture on ROA (route of administration) where he would eventually get to the subject of edibles. His take was that eating marijuana was an awful waste of a perfectly good drug

ETA: This was an Oweo tier post, and I will see myself out.

Xanax. Weight lifting. Meditation. Jogging/walking.

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Loosely scientific idea here, but I think our species has a certain amount of stress response that has evolutionarily proven beneficial for survival (getting more alert in the dark, etc). Modern society has made life so easy for us these preloaded systems aren’t being used for practical applications.

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Yeah, gotta disagree with this point, though I get where you're coming from. I think it's the opposite; there is so much information being fed to us at incredible rates that we feel overwhelmed. If it's not the fast-paced world news, it's trying to keep up with Jones' on social media. We aren't wired to handle it.

I have bad anxiety. Biggest triggers were conference calls for work and driving. I would get nausea of the head...almost like an out-of-body experience...heart racing, sweating, believing that one wrong sentence in a conference call or one wrong move on the roadway and my entire life would come collapsing down.


I've been on a couple of meds but have been on a low dose of Lexapro for years and it's pretty much nipped it all in the bud. Also smoke weed which has helped me just accept things for what they are, rather than sweating the small shite.

Anxiety fricking sucks. If you're dealing with it and are scared to talk to your doctor, just get over yourself and admit you're dealing with unpleasant feelings. He or she won't think less of you (they're probably on anti-anxiety meds themselves).