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Share With Us: Besides taking medication, what have you found to work well for you to mitigate or alleviate your anxieties?
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Less caffeine, less alcohol, sleep hygiene, less news cycle (I swore I wouldn’t get sucked into the trump bullshit, but when he’s making EOs that directly impact me…).
Moving my caffeine away from my medication (shifting meds 45 min later).
L-theanine, magnesium, B-complex.
Honestly though, caffeine and alcohol are bad. I didn’t have much caffeine, but the alcohol was a bit of a binge habit. None during week, but weekends were well above the national guidelines.
I spent January dry just to reset and find my normal. It was really nice. I'm back to binge drinking occasionally. I used to really enjoy it but lately it's just making me sad.
I may have to change my name to Texas Mildly Inebriated.
Oh man the depression hits so much harder for me after I’ve gone dry for a while.
Depending on your poison, the NA beers are getting pretty decent. Or just soda water, honestly fits the bill for me.
I get that. I'm actually a bourbon guy. I prefer things with names like Old Tennishoe or The Devil's Scrotum. I can absolutely stop at one or two (I do that pretty regularly) and I can do without. I just really enjoy being hammered. And I enjoy the burn of terrible bourbon. I just don't enjoy this deep sadness lately while I do it.
I won't deny that I'm a problem drinker.
The weekly guidelines are not sufficient for a single night out.
Thats very true. If I average under the weekly guidelines but hammer through the weekly guidelines in 90 min, it’s quite unhealthy.
Binge drinking is defined differently depending on the jurisdiction. Some require a time window (5 drinks per 2 hr window) and some require it to be a “session” (6 standard units in one session). Some refer to it as “high intensity drinking”. Psychology of Addictive Behavior lists five drinks consumed on one occasion at least once in a two-week period.
Personally, what I mean is that I don’t drink Sunday-Thursday, then Friday I’ll have 3-4 pints of heavy beer, a glass or two of wine, and maybe again on Saturday. On average that puts me over weekly guidelines and also hits some binge thresholds. It’s social, not trying to get excessively drunk. Regardless, it’s unhealthy - no amount of alcohol is. (Just for the people around me, right?)
I can go months without drinking if i have no time for the bar but then smash 10-15 in a few hours.