/sci/ - Science & Math

I would like to know as well. I'm getting better at it but I can't help but be a weird, socially awkward fuck around people most of the time. I have almost no natural charisma in most situations.

>>11156754
Fluoxetine.

>>11156766
>>11156754
interact with people more. not even mememing: make friends with a female.

>>11156766
Neither do I, but my biggest problem is worrying about finances. I have fears that I will go homeless or get super unlucky and not be able to afford school any longer. But I tend to overspend on food or other pleasures because of anxiety and lack of restraint which then effects my diet and overall willpower which is why I am bad at budgeting. I am only likable to my peers when I am going on philosophical tangents or helping them with understand course material.

>>11156767
enjoy your broken dick.

>>11156754
Eat more meat

>>11156802
Red meat to be specific

>>11156816
But upping your meat intake in general should help

using opiates

>>11156818
Yes, after the heart failure, you won't have anxiety anymore.

>>11156785
I've been on them for almost 3 years now, my dick is fine. Now the sweating, that's annoying.

>>11156837
Anxiety ridden vegan cope

Not scientific, but employ the power of placebo

>>11156754

avoid foreigners and eat less processed foods

avoid foreigners and eat less processed food

>>11156754
Alcohol

meditation and exercise.

>>11156754
Evolutionarily speaking, what is the purpose of anxiety?

>>11156923

fight-or-flight response

>>11156923

if you are anxious it means you are ready to flee at any moment

Just start accepting shit. Yeah things might not go your way but they might not go your way anyway.

>>11156754
>Scientifically speaking
Heh tricked the mods once again... I'm an evil mastermind, I posted a dogshit off topic threads that has nothing to do with science and added "scientifically speaking" tricking the useless mods into believing my thread should stay up. What is that you say? I could've posted my shitty life problem question on /adv/ or /r9k/? Nah, I want to be an annoying cunt and shit up /sci/ instead.

You needed to upregulate your GABA receptors.

>>11156754
realise that what you are experiencing will likely have no effect on your emotional state in like 6 months and therefore stressing about it doesnt help. What will happen will happen and you can only do your best

>>11156849
This, start praying to God or meditating.

>>11156754
scientifically speaking
>cognitive behavioral therapy
>acceptance and commitment therapy
>exposure therapy
>getting more sleep
>exercising/staying active
>reducing caffeine intake (if you take any)
>reducing or eliminating alcohol intake
>avoiding regular use of any recreational drugs
>mindfulness meditation
>benzos/antianxiety meds

I can tell you from personal experience that pretty much all of these things helped me (besides medication) manage and reduce my anxiety. CBT and ACT helped probably the most, meditation second, and reducing alcohol/caffeine third.

>>11157070
>CBT and ACT
what are the practical steps I need to take to implement these? What do I actually have to do?

>>11157102
I would just read feeling good and the worry trick, in that order. I can't give you super helpful steps because it might involve a lot of new or indigestible concepts for you that might take a bit to understand, and I'm not sure exactly where cbt starts or how to organize introducing someone to it. ACT was introduced to me through the worry trick book and I can't summarize that specifically either because there's no portion of the book that's like "this is what act is".

Both therapies give you tools in order to manage your thoughts and emotions. Feeling Good is overall essential reading for mental health and wellbeing, it's for depression but it has so many different techniques that I come back to and use even four years after reading it. It solidly changed my mental health. The Worry Trick fills the cracks where Feeling Good falls short, it's specifically for anxiety and it goes into a lot of the science/anatomy/pathways behind anxiety before delving into the techniques. I highly recommend this order because if you've never had cbt before the first book is really the best at that. I'll reply again with some more clear steps.

>>11157102
>cbt

basically the model here is that when you process external stimuli you have an automatic thought that produces a feeling. when you have anxiety or depression you're experiencing cognitive distortions that sort of exercise this pathway, your mind automatically uses distorted ways of automatically thinking to produce negative thoughts that produce negative emotions. so you learn to recognize these automatic thoughts, recognize the cognitive distortions in your negative thoughts, and learn to talk back to these thoughts rationally. this rational thinking produces positive emotions and practices that pathway. for someone with anxiety, i found a lot of my negative thinking to be fortune-telling or catastrophizing.

As for the ACT stuff, a big part of overcoming anxiety is understanding that it's a normal feelings that everyone has. You just have the alarm going 24/7 and might be experiencing it through either your cognition (where cbt would help) or your amygdala (where it would not). or maybe both. if cbt does not help then it's likely the other type where you just need to accept your anxiety reaction and work on managing the physical response.

>>11157117
>>11157131
Thanks for the information, I'll definitely read those books. I can't help but think the anxiety is coming from my amygdala because when I try analyse the response it usually feels like a rapid burst in adrenaline that occurs quicker than conscious thought, a real fight or flight response.

>>11156754
Phenibut

>>11156785
My dick doesn't get used in the first place, so it's not like it makes a difference.