What did you do for your anxiety? How did you reduce your panic attacks so drastically?
Did you take a long-acting medication?
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Ive been on paxil and divalproex for 25 years, I never take benzos for anxiety, ever.
The first thing for me was to psychologically accept that panic and anxiety couldnt hurt me. It was tough at first but was a massive step, the panic cut down by 90% but the anxiety was there. Then it was food choices. For me a lot of my anxiety is a reaction to food, allergy, histamine, I went through A LOT of hit and miss on what foods gave me anxiety.These days if I I get anxiety 99.9999% of the time its food related, the other bit is i probably have the flu and my body is hating me/weaker.
I dont eat processed foods, never ever anything with msg, rarely have caffeine (diet coke) butr NEVER caffeine on an empty stomach. I mean really, thats mainlining pure anxiety into your system, get some food in first. Google histamine causing foods and histamine containing foods, histamine builds up in the system and causes the exact reaction as hard anxiety. Our stomach and brain have so many of the same cells and are fully intertwined, what you put in your gut is what you put in your brain.
I take Omega 3s, vitamin d, probiotic, turmeric and quercetin, and the quercetin is absolute fucking magic for helping my stomach.
Overall, I firmly believe nearly all of my anxiety is/was from food. With the food and supplement changes I made, and really nothing else, ive kept it in check for a long time now. And if i get anxiety who cares, it sucks but its not gonna kill me
only thing thats gonna kill me is bhanks is gonna "take my life"
anyways, ask away if you have questions
oh also, I have a very very stress free life so that is a factor for sure