Nausea, Stress & Anxiety - How to Combat it?

[The Oi]

all you have to do is stay away from rcf.

How?

 

[Snarly]

Sorry to hear that.

How do these disorders affect your posts? Like does it affect your ability to focus or does it affect the thoughts themselves?

Thanks man! and more like the typos or double words I post. My head is racing faster than I can handle sometimes and I get ahead of myself or it will change thoughts out of nowhere and I will skip from one thing right to another. To be honest RCF is the one place to help me function in a community of any sorts. It has helped me out in a way.

 

[Snarly]

I know you have your good days and your bad but your posts always have good intentions and that counts a lot round here. Do you find the fact that other people use these terms unaccruately and without fully understanding the true condition hard when you have to have a serious discussion with them about it?

The idiot in me has to ask...is the random nature of the outbreaks one of the most frustrating things for an OCD sufferer to deal with

Thanks and it is cool lol. The worst part about it is you always feel a need to type the same way no matter how bad it is. Like sometimes I feel like I have to type the same word twice. Other times like I said in my other post it is my head racing. I am a reclusive person and have a hard time making friends because of this. I do not mind if people do not understand as long they like you said get my intention then I am cool with whatever.

 

[letgocavs]

I drank so much caffeine today and I think I have to quit. I haven't had a panic attack this bad in years. Was scary.

 

[Kouki]

Panic attacks are the worst. Ease up on the caffeine or when you do drink more than you should, supplement with L-theanine. Super cheap. It rounds out the caffeine, less peaky, less crashy, just clean solid energy.

 

[DJTJ]

Not sure if this is the right thread, but I vaguely remember there being mental health people here.

I used to be on medication, and stopped cold turkey. The months that followed were really rough. I’m about a year out, though, and am no longer having any panic attacks on any normal triggers and I feel very strange about it.

For example, there was a local Target that was so overwhelming, that in four consecutive visits I had to leave and wait in the car. In this same time period, I learned that sensory overload was a large issue for me, but that in large spaces with a singular goal, I’m able to “block it out”. I’m at the point where most things that made me nervous ended up being sensory overload reactions.

And I don’t know if it was, or if I just… got better at dealing with them? The side shoots of the anxiety/depression that the meds curb is still there, but the public spaces panic attacks have subsided and it feels like I just never actually had them? And I don’t know if that’s a health thought process.

Big nope on anxiety meds from me- after four years of them, and a year off, I’m able to do a lot more functionally without them.

 

[Kouki]

Curious, what were you taking for anxiety? I've had mixed results with just about everything. Just recently quit Remeron cold turkey, partially because of weight gain, partially cause I lost the script lol. First week was bad, now it's been maybe 3-4 weeks and I'm still pretty up and down in terms of anxiety and depression, but could just be normal holiday/life stress.

The only drug that really helps me fight anxiety/depression, mostly depression, is going to the gym. If I miss a few sessions in a row I become a depressed trainwreck.

 

[Adam]

Not sure if this is the right thread, but I vaguely remember there being mental health people here.

I used to be on medication, and stopped cold turkey. The months that followed were really rough. I’m about a year out, though, and am no longer having any panic attacks on any normal triggers and I feel very strange about it.

For example, there was a local Target that was so overwhelming, that in four consecutive visits I had to leave and wait in the car. In this same time period, I learned that sensory overload was a large issue for me, but that in large spaces with a singular goal, I’m able to “block it out”. I’m at the point where most things that made me nervous ended up being sensory overload reactions.

And I don’t know if it was, or if I just… got better at dealing with them? The side shoots of the anxiety/depression that the meds curb is still there, but the public spaces panic attacks have subsided and it feels like I just never actually had them? And I don’t know if that’s a health thought process.

Big nope on anxiety meds from me- after four years of them, and a year off, I’m able to do a lot more functionally without them.

That's great news. Sounds like you have developed some other coping mechanisms. The original point of meds was to provide an initial support to allow people to develop their own coping systems. Sadly that second part often get overlooked. You might find you still have some conditioned responses that trigger the odd feeling but if you remember how far you have come you should be able to get through them quickly.

 

[DJTJ]

Curious, what were you taking for anxiety? I've had mixed results with just about everything. Just recently quit Remeron cold turkey, partially because of weight gain, partially cause I lost the script lol. First week was bad, now it's been maybe 3-4 weeks and I'm still pretty up and down in terms of anxiety and depression, but could just be normal holiday/life stress.

The only drug that really helps me fight anxiety/depression, mostly depression, is going to the gym. If I miss a few sessions in a row I become a depressed trainwreck.

Wellbutrin, and two others.

They all work, don’t get me wrong, but given other issues (ASD for example), I just become hyper focused zombie who cannot compute emotions and is complete void of picking up on the limited clues I could pick up on.

They made work really, really hard because I negotiate on the daily, and had no ability to pick up on clues that I already struggled to pick up on.

 

[Kouki]

I see...

I did the Wellbutrin + Remeron combo for a while. Probably was my sweet spot but the Wellbutrin did cause anxiety and eventually benefit outweighed the negative. Might try it again once work slows down, idk, the energy was amazing.

 

[DirtyDan]

I need some advice on how to consistently implement coping strategies for someone who has the fun combination of inattentive ADHD, social phobia, and GAD. I have some insomnia-like symptoms, avoidant personality, and genetic link to ASD along with behavior/symptoms that make me believe I may have went undiagnosed.

I take strattera for the ADHD and it helps for the most part. I am making more of an effort to work around my limited attention span during the work day.

My biggest issue is hyperfocusing on random bullshit for hours at a time, because my sense of time and ability to plan ahead are broken. I stray from my routines and fail to prioritize doing the things I need to get myself to function normally. (i.e. sleeping, meal planning, budgeting, etc.)

 

[letgocavs]

I take Zoloft and trapezoid for sleeping. So far no changes, but it’s fairly early and my high caffeine intake to workout has been disrupting my sleep.

 

[DJTJ]

Annnnd, just like that, back on meds.

First week on Zoloft+Propanolol following a massive panic attack where I thought I was actively having a heart attack (and despite the blood work, still think I’m having).

Not fun. Not fun at all.

 

[foucault87]

Sleep has always been one of the most important ways to help regulate stress for me. I have had horrible sleep habits due to either working late/gaming late/reading late or all three and having to still be up in early morning. During the last few years, I have been making a more concentrated effort to sleep earlier and sleep longer. Sometimes, that was making sure I had no morning meetings and other times just stopping whatever I was doing to make sure I didn't keep mindlessly gaming until 3am. It has been really helpful, especially as I have gotten a bit older.

 

[PIP]

Orange juice & V8