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1. Rusty Crab (rustycrab@sleepy.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 23:24:37 JST Rusty Crab
   mask off for a moment does anybody have experience with anything like xanax or alternatives because some days I wake up and I feel like I'm going to literally fucking die from stress
   • hyolobrika@berserker.town's status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 23:24:34 JST Hyolobrika

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     Try skullcap. It acts on the same receptors (GABA).

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   • diceynes (diceynes@coolsite.win)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 23:24:35 JST diceynes

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     I'm on Clonazepam. When I tried to quit I had withdrawals from 6 months. Now I'm back on it.
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     @RustyCrab Benzos are one of the most dangerous drugs imaginable
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     Not sure if it grows where you guys live but this is what it looks like.

     I make a tincture out of it using vodka. You could also make a tea out of it.

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     Some other herbs I've heard of (but haven't tried for anxiety yet) include: horehound, vervain (tried for sleep with valerian and worked well), and passionflower.
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     @Hyolobrika @diceynes @hidden yeah I'm positive they use skullcap in tea.
     
     You know I should try Valerian again but the downside is that it makes you drowsy. That might be better than this current stuff however
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   • victor (d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161@mostr.pub)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:46:16 JST victor

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     It's absurd that this is legal and even encouraged by the pharma industry
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     @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @hidden @diceynes @RustyCrab The lobotomy of our generation. I heard something recently about pharmaceuticals specifically paying off doctors that were immigrants, since they would feel less connection or loyalty to their community, and not be as opposed making people into addicts.
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   • diceynes (diceynes@coolsite.win)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:46:17 JST diceynes

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     I took a high clonazepam dose for about 5 years. I made it for 1 year then I just threw away the work done which was like going trough hell because I wanted to feel good like a child. Disgusted that I started again but at least I know I can quit.
   • Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:46:18 JST Parker Banks

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     @diceynes @hidden @RustyCrab You can, but it takes a couple years and shaving away at them with a razor blade, and depending on your type/dosage, will kill you if you go cold turkey.
   • diceynes (diceynes@coolsite.win)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:46:19 JST diceynes

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     I wouldn't recommend starting. You can't ever quit
   • Rusty Crab (rustycrab@sleepy.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:46:20 JST Rusty Crab

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     @hidden I'm open to suggestions. And I'm sorry but addressing the root cause is not possible. Just please trust me on that.
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     @RustyCrab Well tbh I’m not sure how to help you. I’m just warning you about benzos in particular since they’ll make your anxiety significantly worse unless you take them, and slowly increase the dose, every single day until you die
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     @parker @hidden @diceynes @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @RustyCrab Adderall took care of my stress more for a while but now I'm having crashes made worse by this job, I kinda wanna go off it and find another medication lmao
     
     Also I'm convinced more hrt is this generations lobotomy but with a religious backing
   • node (node@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 02:19:01 JST node

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     @parker @PhenomX6 @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @RustyCrab its a good point to ask why people are so stressed. When I was 21, I thought, "I had better MAKE IT by age 25. That's my time limit - I must make it by 25." Then 25 came and I got fired from a high-paying job shortly thereafter. The anxiety from getting fired & deviating from my timeline went away when I learned to shrug it off. I guess I wasn't ready to MAKE IT at age 25. No problem. We're all gonna make it someday, just maybe not today. That's my thoughts on people being so stressed. They have to learn to shrug things off and stay engaged in the present instead of constant unproductive rumination over runaway daydreams.
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     @node @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab I'm worried that I'm gonna be unfuckable having wasted my life at 30 soon kinda, worried about long term effects from a car crash nearly 10 years ago, etc.
     
     Also what happened to my former friends and losing most of them fucked my psyche over. But they fucked over everyone else too
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     @PhenomX6 @hidden @diceynes @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @RustyCrab To me, the legions of women with the SSRI stare (not benzos I know) are more comparable to lobotomies, also a bigger concern given how widespread it is.
     
     And why is everyone so stressed lately? I mean, my life is pretty good so I've got no complaints. Have had bouts of stress due to sleep deprivation, kids, autistic son, health issues, etc., but just went with the traditional remedy of drinking myself silly.
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     @hidden @PhenomX6 @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab I don't know much about the permanent effects of long term SSRI usage, but it seems like people bounce back pretty quickly.
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     @BowsacNoodle @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab I thought ssris fucked me up but at the same time that's when one of my longtime online friends went down the troon hole and others began to cut me out and all
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     @PhenomX6 @diceynes @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab HRT is castration not lobotomy. Although SSRI's and antipsychotics are also castration
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     @BowsacNoodle @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab yeah I've gotten better habits then I used to have, my issue is I've run into my job sucking my motivation away 💀
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     @PhenomX6 @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab Adderall is an incredible drug if you can use it properly. People think it's going to cure their lack of discipline, when it should be used as a guardrail to give you a temporary boost while you're building proper habits.
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     @PhenomX6 @parker @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @RustyCrab I think Adderall abuse, and the introduction of HRT as an acceptable way to alter one's endocrine system, are illustrations of how people are not very good at making choices on their own, in a vacuum, if you only give them information without prior opinions. People need prior culture, history, tradition - they need parents to guide their choices (and their parents must not be "in a vacuum" either). There are downsides to Adderall. There's a steep & permanent downside to HRT. America has a deep love of individualism and free choice, and these are some of the fruits of that self-conception. Better to have parents that are clued in to reality, and to have them put up some guardrails for us.
     
     I hope you're able to find an alternative medication, or perhaps just lower your dose. I happen to have weaned my woman off of an Adderall-type medication. I took it a couple of times, and let me tell you I was a BEAST on that shit. But I never take it these days, even though we both still have a handful of pills in the house, because I like my reality cold, hard, raw, the straight dope. I don't like to cheat. I don't like to be fake-hard. I wanna be REAL hard, you know? I want to be that huge freak at the gym who people say must be using steroids, but no, he's actually fucking natty.
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     @node @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab I'm on a low ish dose (10mg 2x a day) but I've seen people on 25mg 💀
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     @PhenomX6 @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab Hahaha dude you have nothing to worry about. Seriously. You've got nothing to worry. Fear is the mind killer, you're killing your mind thinking with this sort of tunnel-vision about turning 30. You're getting riper, dude. You're getting sweeter with time. The cult of YOUTH is an illusion. Females and males alike universally enjoy the company of the middle-aged and older folks than the company of the youth.
     
     Take care of yourself, don't sit in a chair too long without exercise, smile at people, and do what you want to do and don't get wrapped up in hair-brained schemes, or lost in a false conception of yourself. Probably Socratic philosophy would be useful for you, maybe listen to some lectures of Socrates' discussions with the energetic youth of Athens. It will give you an awesome new set of concepts with which you can get a new handle on your own situation.
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     @node @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab that's why I'm putting in my 2 weeks literally much of my stress now comes from being isolated at work and all the dumb bullshit i put up with daily.
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     @PhenomX6 @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab 2x a day? That's kinda intense. I would probably start trying to just take it in the morning, as someone with no knowledge of your particulars.
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     @node @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab it's instant release not extended, extended would last all day and I'd get no sleep
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     @node @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab the stories I'd tell ya about my job are hilarious.
     
     They hired people who have never used a computer to assemble servers and it's hilarious.
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     @PhenomX6 @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab Work sucks. I hate work too man. I hate boomers and their unearned confidence and hubris. I hate putting my heart, soul, and artistry into products which are picked down to the bones for every dollar that can be harvested from them. Sorry jewish-led, money-elevating post-ww2 order but you are not going be shoving me in the wagie pod to create shitty widgets as my soul dies. I am not bred for that. Miss me with that Half Life Stalker shit.
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     The management class seems to think that "anyone can set up servers" and hire their retarded buddies to do it, and it turns out there's quite a bit more to it in the real world than that.
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     @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @hidden @parker @node @RustyCrab worse it's all staffing firms
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     @node @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab no they're literally putting servers together here and running the place from a top down "hire as many people as possible to do bullshit jobs for the sake of it" mindset. The people diagnosing issues never replace parts on the servers and aren't technically allowed to...but the people replacing parts are just as bad as the line workers.
     
     We caught them pretending to replace thermal paste
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     @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @PhenomX6 @hidden @parker @RustyCrab I only started learning SystemD this year and somehow I got through years of Web Dev without learning it. People who just come at tech from a hubristic, go-getter, no-nonsense angle usually eat shit at some point and they deserve it. There's no humility in tech
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     @PhenomX6 @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @BowsacNoodle @RustyCrab A lot of people had that issue the last couple years. I did too for a while, but switched to part time & with the condition I didn't have to write reports anymore, went and contracted somewhere else for a year, then returned to my old job full time. When I was a kid my dad quit his job almost every summer. Keeps things fresh.
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     @PhenomX6 @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab democracy enjoyers & end-of-history believers continue eating shit. humans are trash with few exceptions and if you don't elevate the aristocratic and noble above the reams of human shit, this is the society you get. human inequality will roar back with a vengeance, or we'll all remain trapped by pleasure sedation in this perpetual lie society where everyone is faking it
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     @node @hidden @d5eb1db13d9a77065907d310070eb7568ff5457a7c6aee7f216bf75945b62161 @parker @RustyCrab my job is great it's a struggle between the boss who wants numbers and malds everyone fakes it, and the wagies in my shift pretending to do work