Hi everyone, my name is Veladynee and I'm afraid of people. I'm also a fish.
@Veladynee hi, Veladynee! I’m also afraid of people. I’m also some kind of flying lizard.
@kistaro Nice to meet you, flying lizard!
My fear of people extends to unknown environments and people. Tis fun. Now I know why I am so anxious when it comes to going out!
yeah, my sincerest sympathies. I'm fortunate that escitalopram has been immensely beneficial for anxiety; before that, I found that CBD was useful for acute anxiety, and could suppress it for hours - enough that I could use it as a tool to let me go out in loud, crowded environments and have a good time anyway. The doses I used caused me insomnia, though, if I used them with less than eight hours to go before bed; I've heard that CBD is a sedative in large doses but I used absurdly tiny doses. (sublingual tincture)
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@kistaro Yeah... I use CBD-THC 1:1s for a similar reason nightly. Especially also before any party or social event not work related. It's kind of my "be remotely a functioning person for a few hours" button. ^^;
No insomnia from the 1:1s tho directly, but do get intensive dreams that can interrupt sleep.
As for escital... I may ask my doc on something like that ^^ Was on an SSRI before but it nuked my emotions entirely.
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@kistaro Well I use functioning in a loose sense. >>
More it works as a reset button after I come down for a good while. But yeah, stuff to explore with the brain doc!
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@Veladynee
Escitalopram is the most fundamental SSRI, so if an SSRI didn't work in the past, then it's unlikely to help in the future. SNRIs are a better second line if SSRIs weren't appropriate for you, from what I've heard.
I enjoy THC, but no amount of it (even used with CBD) particularly helps me be a "functioning" person for a few hours. <..< Different people have different neurochemistry - as the difficulty getting antidepressants right, or any psych medication, tends to show...