The Psychology Thread

Juggle cobras!

What did the poor cobras do to meet that fate? (Plus, you know, good luck with getting slabs of muscle to stay in one shape, let alone not bite you.)

It is therapeutic. It unites everything about all psychological theories.

You will juggle them in a perfect, gestaltic circle. You will train your muscles to do a specific juggling behavior. You will exercise your thoughts in a single minded focus, and to boot, the snakes are phallic.

See? It is the perfect psychological therapy.

And, you will certainly distract yourself from any internally generated loops and spirals thanks to focussing on things like fangs and venom glands.

Well there is "flooding" and there is EXTREME FLOODING.

Gosh I am such a freakin' psychological genius. Step aside, Freud, Skinner, Bandura. There is a new playa in da houz.

I may have worked a bit too hard. Tingly on my legs and arm. But know it's the anxiety. So just going to fight through it.

"Fight through it" can work. Or, bugger you up worse. Keep tabs on that tingle. If you get empty-leaden-hollow-heavy-stiff-but-not-dizzy-sick yickness... don't try to work through that, OK? That's worse than battling through a pain warning.

That means "sit down to watch Game Of Thrones", rather.

Euo reccomends watching Game of Thrones.

I reccomend going to the nearest desert...no, no. Running to the nearest desert, set up a bonfire, light it and three closest spherical rocks you can find and SPIT FIRE.

No but really. If you have problems remembering stuff like I do, you can also busy yourelf writing down how you felt when you flet it what you were doing or thinking before and show it to your psychologist on therapy.

Or just for your own use, remember the feelings, and remember how specifically they feel, so you can recognize how they begin when they begin and know they are coming, even when you are not aware.

I prefer anime lol. Can you elaborate on that "don't work out" feeling? Also my neighbor just gifted me mortal kombat x!

That was me trying to be clear and fully detailed at the same time. You'll get a similar dizzy-sick feeling that can somehow live in muscles, but it won't be quite like mine.

It's a sign that your heart is about to screw you over if you keep on. For you, that could mean trouble, if not in the same way as it does for me. Get a heart rate monitor and plot yourself some graphs. You'll start to notice your trends and how they feel to you.

Fair enough.

And oh fucking god having 1/4th of a xanax before having mexican was a HORRIBLE idea.

Worshiping the porcelain throne right now.

edited 30th Apr '15 4:02:24 PM by Thorn14

I have no useful advice to add, but I do wish you luck and better health soon.

Thanks. I think this is just something I have to just struggle through, and hope the next day is better than the last.

edited 30th Apr '15 4:13:23 PM by Thorn14

The take home lesson to this is: avoid spicy with meds. And/or "don't take if filling up to the brim". You might want to add "not too fizzy and citrus/ apple" to the list.

With your issues with the dizziness before, you're likely to find you get it with most meds. Before bed might be your best bet for most of the drugs you're likely to be prescribed.

It's also because of the dizziness I suspect keeping tabs on your heart rate is going to be one of the more useful tools in this game.

Well I already got an EKG, and tests came up fine. I'm getting a heart echo Tuesday to be 110% sure my heart is fine. Doc and Psychologist pretty sure I'm fine in the heart department.

And wow am I DUMB because I also ate an apple before having the mexican. Bad choices all around.

My heart rate is pretty normal, if a little high due to my stress and my weight. Though I seem to be waking up with a high heart rate lately, probably because of the anxiety and shit.

I'm pretty sure this is all just anxiety and earlier medication fucking with me, so if you don't mind can we can the heart talk? It'll trigger the anxiety about that again.

edited 30th Apr '15 4:42:16 PM by Thorn14

Um. The heart is one of the first organs to tell you when your anxiety is moving up a gear, because that's the organ it really likes to mess with (your lungs, too — but the heart-and-lung team is that close, it makes no odds). It's the one organ you can easily feel and measure, to boot. So, you need to get used to listening to it, rather than fearing what it's trying to tell you. :/ When you don't listen to its memos, that's when you get messed with... and that isn't its fault.

Which is why you need to start doing your homework about anxiety. And, how to take pills without throwing up, apparently.

edited 30th Apr '15 5:02:19 PM by Euodiachloris

Yeah well after a very strange night (almost like it was a "Groundhog Day" Loop ) like yesterday, though I did sleep a bit better, my heart feels very weak. I took a blood pressure and heart rate check and its all the same but it just feels...weaker deep inside of my chest.

I know its just my anxiety but...UGH.

Xanax helped though. Though got a tummy ache because of it. Much rather have a tummy ache however.

edited 1st May '15 7:37:26 AM by Thorn14

Hey guys, me again.

Sorry for being such a bother.

I have a question I cant' decide on.

Today for the most part was alright, I took a xanax in the late morning and had a pretty good day up until 4 PM when I started getting really depressed. Even after working out I felt great, and then 3 minutes later I went right back to feeling shitty.

Now I'm wondering what I should do, should I take the Celexa my doctor initially prescribed as a replacement to Buspar, but ALSO I think made me have a really shitty night full of shivering and anxiety. I hear I might have even worse anxiety until it kicks in, which scares me.

Do I go cold turkey until I see a psychiatrist instead of GD prescribing (which GD suggested), which I think may lead to me going back to being very depressed as I'm just going to be taking nothing but Xanax.

Or do I do option C and try to go back what was initially working and take a Buspar just at night, and not during the day as well which I think may have to the start of this rough 2 weeks I've been having.

Do what your doctor told you to do.

Stop playing with your Meds. Seriously. That is only going to mess you up more.

Will do. Thanks.

For the nth time: there are no quick fixes. Stop looking for them and concentrate on your aggregate gains day to day and week to week. It's a lot easier on your liver, at the very least. :/

I know. I'm just scared that the Celexa will make things worse. I'm already having a really rough week.

Well, you only took it once, maybe you should give it another chance. If it goes wrong a second time call your doc on the phone and describe the prob. But anything might have caused that one bad night.

You're absolutely right. I think that was the mindset I had earlier today when my day was going not so bad.

But for some reason, around 3:30 I got VERY depressed and the Xanax has not helped with that at all.

No idea what caused it. I guess my brain is just going to be doing all kind of weird shit for a bit, eh?

Xanax isn't made for depression.