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How to deal with anxiety

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I wanted to come on here to see if anyone had any tips for my situation.

I was diagnosed with anxiety when I was 11 and I’ve been on meds for my anxiety/depression since I was 14. I am currently on the max dose of Citalopram and while it’s helped a lot with my depression, I can’t seem to get my anxiety under control.

I’ve had a very busy summer, I’ve been working several jobs but I don’t work more than 50 hours per week. This is why I am so confused: I am exhausted all the time. Like, I could lay down on the floor and be out like light kind of exhausted. I get 8 hours of sleep every night and I still end up having to take naps in my free time. I don’t know why I’m so tired all the time, but it’s severely impacting my work effort at my jobs (I love my jobs btw) and this is causing me to be extremely stressed. It’s also hard because for years I’ve used exercise to help curb my anxiety, but now I can’t even run for 30 minutes without coming home and needing to take a 3 hour nap.

I really don’t think I have any underlying health issues that are causing my exhaustion, I just think that working out isn’t doing the trick anymore because of how tired I am, which is making me more anxious, which is making more exhausted. It’s an endless cycle lol.

I think I’m going to stop exercising as much to see if that curbs my exhaustion (I normally work out for an hour per day), but since I won’t have exercising as an outlet for my anxiety, does anyone know any tips on how to combat anxiety without working out? For example, if you are someone who has gotten injured or sick and couldn’t work out anymore, how did you learn to cope with your anxiety?

Also, if anyone has any tips for my exhaustion, I’d really appreciate it. I’ve cut out sugar in the mornings so that I won’t crash, I drink coffee in the morning, I sometimes take a melatonin before bed so that I’ll sleep better, and I overall feel like I’m doing all the right things but I can shake my sleepiness lol. Thank you

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  • I've just posted on another thread on this so I'm going to copy / paste and add some to it.

    I've found a new medical paper which basically proves the Autistic brain, with it's higher percent of Gamma Waves (higher oscillations of brain waves responsible for making connexions, a flow-state / eureka state) will induce a state of physical anxiety (not emotional) far more often than non-autistic peers. Gamma Waves are responsible for full-brain reasoning.

    A thought is these oscillations can become out of control. I would explain it like a firework exploding two more, then those to each popping off 2 and so on, compounding an equation like dB levels.here's a link to the paper (download). https://t.co/SkgDzU97lz

    Research Gamma Waves and what they're responsible for - both good and undesirable. They're fascinating. 

    Personally, I've experienced I just need to shut them down with a medical aid. I don't need it daily. But health is important and this degree of stress is unhealthy and can cause a stroke. So I only take a half dose or less when I need that feedback loop in my head to stop. Anti-Depressants don't shut this down. Anti-Anxiety meds do. 

    The paper talks about signal to noise ratio in terms of the 'chaos' happening in the brain. Typical brains won't experience this to this intensity. they are designed to "filter" signals coming in - I don't know if that's through Neuro-Connectors (which I had read as a theory) or they don't have the same use of Gamma Waves.

    From what I know and have read and from others I've spoken with, unless you're mis-diagnosed, anti-depressants most likely won't help. I started a thread a little back about this: https://community.autism.org.uk/f/health-and-wellbeing/26018/anxiety-stress-vs-depression

  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    I found this very helpful, particulalry the bit about the gamma waves and the connections. I feel like my brain is constantly making connections, some real and some not real 

  • in reply to Billy87

    If you can, I find writing them all down helps. Sometimes I come back to these writings and realise that what I was sensing was real, I just didn't have the ability to identify it properly - a term or word. 

  • in reply to Billy87

    that's why you need to run infinite amount of tests, with different variables, or at least as many as you can come up with

    my brain goes through bad scenarios first and sometimes it takes all night to get to possible positive outcomes

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