Mental Health How to calm my nerves without being high just relaxed

[Ratched]

I took a half tab norco 5 and a .25 of klonopin to calm my nerves. (all my script) I'm still feeling that internal shaking and I'm chewing my cuticles till they bleed. I'm putting on bandaids on my fingers and I think I have a moisture glove but it's hard to type on. I'm not looking to get high or mentally check out. I would like that fresh showered morning relax feel and do some research tonight. I work nights and I have all night to just chill and study. Unfortunately inside my body is shaking like a leaf.
I got into a fight at work because a coworker was left with some extra work even though I sacrificed my lunch and protected the lives of many people at my own expense. No back up from the Director as usual. Good people always get fucked. It's hard to just let work go and relax. I could break a pencil with my butt muscles right now. Any ideas on getting a relaxed feeling without getting high? I have prescriptions but I'm conservative with them. What do some people do to neutralize that internal shaking from being stressed and pissed off. Normally I just wait it out but I'd like to get over this early.

Thanks

 

[johnlesliemackie]

start to work out. at home with your own body, at a gym, buy weights -- there are alternatives.

meditate 1-2 per day. the acute effects can be underwhelming, but it's all about your awareness, and in time the acute effect will be clearly noticeable and the permanent effects, like enhancing your brain connectivity, are worth it and helped me render my existence at least less filled with crippling anxiety and destructive, abstract ruminations.

 

[Ratched]

Okay, I just had a breakthrough! I'm excited to report that my moving slow and thinking this through worked out. After I confirmed how the half tab of my norco/konop affected me which was not sedating at all, I felt it was safe to go ahead and take the other half. That worked on the shakes but that's not why I'm relaxed and smiling right now. I did something really fucking weird and unconventional. I reached in the fridge, grabbed out an onion and pulled one clove of garlic off a bulb. I chopped the shit out of it and tossed it in a cast iron skillet with some olive oil. I simmered it real slow and slowly swirled it around with a wooden spoon. The aroma and act of sauteing onions and garlic in oil made me feel this super epic brain relax feeling that can not come from drugs. I have no idea what I'm doing to do with these sauted onions/garlic but I'm super chill now. and I have a creative brain feeling which is what I wanted.

 

[Ratched]

start to work out. at home with your own body, at a gym, buy weights -- there are alternatives.

meditate 1-2 per day. the acute effects can be underwhelming, but it's all about your awareness, and in time the acute effect will be clearly noticeable and the permanent effects, like enhancing your brain connectivity, are worth it and helped me render my existence at least less filled with crippling anxiety and destructive, abstract ruminations.

Thanks! Yes, an overall healthy body and mind is certainly #1 way to defeat stress. I'll focus on that as a long term goal. That's a lifestyle I need to focus on ASAP for sure.

 

[Pill2Chill]

For physical symptoms of stress, beta-blockers (propranolol in particular) are very effective. They also have zero abuse potential and don't cause dependency or addiction. So as far as meds go this is the least harmful, most effective drug.

Exercise is definitely effective too, and obviously the healthiest solution. Exercising is good for SO many things, including nervousness, anxiety, depression, etc.

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Hope this is the appropriate forum, DC is definitely not.

 

[strity1994]

Drink a rock star zero energy drink (the blue one with zero calories, full of b vitamins) from the gas station. then use the energy to exercise.

The more u exercise, the more stress/tension/anxiety is released.

I exercised so much that I became addicted to it, had surgery 3 times and now back on medication because I cannot exercise atm

 

[johnlesliemackie]

for meds:

hydroxizine: underrated anxiolytic effects, and the drowziness gradually vanishes. it's a lot less sedative than two almost as commonly prescribed anti-anxiety antihistamines in sweden, i.e., alimemazine and propiomazine. unlike those two rls-inducing beasts, hydroxizine rarely induce rls, at least anecdotally speaking. i'm very receptive to rls and akathisia (UGH!). i also find it decent at shielding you from pragmatically useless, hyperabstract ruminations disconnected from the concrete world.

also: l-theanine could be worth a try, i guess.

 

[Ratched]

For physical symptoms of stress, beta-blockers (propranolol in particular) are very effective. They also have zero abuse potential and don't cause dependency or addiction. So as far as meds go this is the least harmful, most effective drug.

Exercise is definitely effective too, and obviously the healthiest solution. Exercising is good for SO many things, including nervousness, anxiety, depression, etc.

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DC > Mental Health.

Hope this is the appropriate forum, DC is definitely not.

I like that beta blocker idea. I got this crazy hormonal bitch shake after being triggered by some assholes at work. I have complete insight about it and I'm not depressed. It's an actual feeling of chemically / hormonally not being right. I'm trying to lay low about it at home so I don't scare the family. lol It went away last night and it just came back after my husband made comments that pissed me off. Now that same physical shaking pissed off internally came right back. I'll go take a metoprolol. I got a little stash of those in the back closet. My pulse is in the 80's so I'm good for it. I know Inderal is the one you see handed out a lot for that but I never actually tried it. I don't actually take regular meds. If I get a script, I nip on it, feel better then stash it. I'll go try out the BB now.

 

[Ratched]

I think the beta blocker worked. I also went into my hot tub cabana and did yoga for an hour and that helped. Seems like I need to live on a yoga pad to stay calm.

 

[herbavore]

^Yeah, amazing how relaxed you can get in a yoga practice then right back to stress once you leave. But on the positive side, I think the practice does effect change over time. Hell, just having the intention to do something proactive (like yoga) to change stress-inducing habits is a monumental step.