Depression and anxiety

Let's talk about depression and anxiety

My anus is depressed. It needs some proper haxing

I'm tired of being alone

I want someone to hold

Talking about this sort of thing really freaks me out. I have to go curl up in the corner now.

They're two quite different things
Depression is prolonged sadness, anxiety is recurring fear
Depression is slow and sluggish, unresponsive
Anxiety is quick and jumpy, hypervigilant

Their positive counterparts would be calmness and excitement

>>5

They're two quite different things

but they often go together

>>5

Anxiety is quick and jumpy, hypervigilant

Not necessarily. You can feel worry and tension without being jumpy.

>>7
Anxiety can also be withdrawn to the point of not paying attention to surroundings. Hypervigilance is associated more with stress.

>>6
They often alternate, but i think you'd have a hard time being both in the same instant

>>7
tense people are more often snappy than not. I'm pretty sure you could call being snappy a form of jumpiness

>>8
Are you sure that's not an anxiety-related depression?

Hypervigilance is associated more with stress.

Sounds about right, but if it keeps happening it's pretty likely to cause anxiety

>>9
Life isn't always about instants. It's about days, or weeks, or months. During said times, you can experience a wide range of emotions. And it is possible to be sad and anxious at the same time. But a lot of the time, the feelings are separate.

I used to have social anxiety, but I've been getting out more with my new friends. We go to restaurants and the gym and things like that. It's easier to deal with anxiety-inducing situations when you have more experience facing them. And not just any old experience, but recent experience. When I was more of a shut-in, I got very anxious when dealing with people.

a lot of autistic people have an excess of serotonin in their blood and this is proven to cause social anxiety

whenever I take drugs that rape my serotonin receptors like LSD or MDMA, I always feel zero social anxiety irl for a few days after that.

propranolol is a very good nonbenzo anxiety drug because it not only is a beta blocker, but it also antagonizes serotonin receptors. I try to take propranolol whenever I have to do something particularly social and it works like a charm, makes my life so much more bearable tbh and it’s completely nonaddictive and benign—people take it for blood pressure.

>>11
I used to use drugs, but not anymore. I'd probably be dead by now if I didn't get sober.

LSD is nuts. Not as intense as DMT, but it lasts so long. Not the kind of thing you can do very often. Mentally and emotionally exhausting. I thought it'd be about seeing cool shit, but it was more about empathy and breathing/moving textures. I've only tried psychedelics a handful of times. They were important experiences that made me want to get my shit together. Can't say that about weed or opiates.

MDMA sucks because of the week afterwards. You feel so depressed while your brain recuperates. I've also done some really embarrassing things on ecstasy. Still makes me cringe to this day.

I tried propranolol before, and it made me feel physically cool, I think because of how it affects your blood pressure. I felt really chill, literally and figuratively, but it didn't really do much for my mind, I think. I tried it at college the first time (in a lounge where people sit and study), and I forget the dose, but it felt really intense, and I think other people noticed that I was acting weird. It was a very different feeling from other anxiety treatments like benzos, which aren't the same at all.

That being said, I weened myself off all drugs and meds. I'm much happier now that I don't take anything at all, unless you count drinking alcohol.

So I hope >>11 can get sober too. I don't really regret my drug phase, but I think it's good to quit while you're ahead. Some people die, some people just never go anywhere in life. Not worth it.

I get that some people self-medicate because life sucks sometimes, but I'm so much better off being sober.

Back to reddit methinks ;|

>>13
nah nigga I’m straight. stop projecting your drug addiction.
I never touch weed, opiates, stimulants, or any of that low class shit.

I get propranolol from my doctor and microdose LSD every now and then. Literally impossible to OD on. It makes me more of a successful normie. therefore it isn’t being a druggie degenerate waste of space like you, who takes heroin to escape from life. I only take drugs that make me experience reality even better rather than running away from it.

>>15

stop projecting your drug addiction.

but in >>11 you wrote

whenever I take drugs

Bruh...

takes heroin to escape from life

Never have, never will. Speak for yourself.
You're projecting about projecting.

>>16
you said you were on opiates and weeds
(trash drugs)
in >>12

Can't say that about weed or opiates.

implying that you were qualified to have said X about weed or opiates, implying experience with those drugs.

you're projecting about me projecting about projecting

>>17
I was, past tense. Not anymore. Got clean.

who /sad/ here?

When your sad.....remember you will die one day.

>>20
that doesn't make me feel any better

>>21
No, but at least you are feeling shit. When you are dead you don't feel shit.

21 This is real, caught a nde didnt feel shit

*22

Behavior cannot be morbid. Psychiatry is a fake science.

>>25
What about commuters?

>>26
What about associaters and distributers?

>>27

What about getters and setters?

You need to separate malfunctioning from malprogramming. Sometimes a piece of electronics is behaving completely fine, but has been configured poorly by someone who doesn't know what he's doing.

broke: thinking you are the problem if you're depressed and/or anxious
woke: realizing the problem is your environment and lifestyle/culture, which leads you to feel depressed and anxious

depressing circumstances will make you depressed
anxiety-inducing circumstances will make you anxious