Had a nice walk in the woods, saw an eagle but couldn't get a pic before it flew off
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alcohol cessation, drugs/legal herbal supplements, mental health
Been real agitated and antsy lately and think I might have a hypomanic episode
Been sober for a month about and feel like I've turned a corner in staying dry for the foreseeable future, something clicked mentally and even when I get the urge to drink, the feeling of disgust of contempt with myself strongly outweighs wanting to get fucked up
Have some shitty family stuff going on and have been really stressed and frustrated about it and really irritable and needed something to mellow me out a bit and don't react well to weed, so I gave kratom a shot again for the first time in years
Had an iffy experience with it in the past of it just making me kind of nauseous and a little loopy, but the blend I got today is really nice
Got a nice body high and relaxed mood and feel like a good amount of the ambient muscle tension I have and back pain are dulled and relaxed and I still feel mentally like I'm completely on top of my faculties instead of anxious or fuzzy headed, this might be how NT people feel normally?
Idk I know kratom can be addictive for some people and you can develop a tolerance, but considering how bad my drinking could get I feel like this is a massive improvement, this shit kinda rocks rn
Baseball scorebug thing on my phone got pushed all the way up in the corner and now I can't select it without it thinking I'm just dragging from the top to access notifications and wifi/Bluetooth stuff so now I just have the Mariners getting shutout in the top left of my screen making me sad
Going for a nice walk helped a good amount. The time I was probably mentally the best off was when I was a gym rat that'd spend hours there a day just masochistically going until total exhaustion and having a hard time showering and getting dressed to go home, but that was pre-covid and I got chubby and had covid for like 4 months and am chronically fatigued and out of shape now.
I do have a tendency to neglect regular meals then overeat when I realize I'm really hungry all of a sudden but that wasn't the case this time/recently. Went for a walk though and that helped a good amount.
Kratom is helpful on occasion but I'd categorize that closer to a drug than a supplement
St. John's Wort can be helpful but it exacerbated my sleep issues and gave me photosensitivity and more prone to sunburn
Melatonin as a supplement instead of a sleep aid can help with anxiety but it can make you a little lethargic in my experience
Lions mane is pretty much harmless, you can get powder and add it to coffee in the morning. Honestly all of those things for me are barely more noticable than placebo for me.
Anybody got some good tips for dealing with high irritability? Every fucking little thing lately makes me want to fucking snap at someone and it's exhausting
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I was a "vodka/whiskey straight from the 1.75 liter plastic bottle" type trainwreck personally
This seems like a marked improvement