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But what you are doing is giving other people more power than you should. They are people just like you. Flaws and all.I know this sounds like a greeting card or a self help saying, but you are more valuable than you realize simply for being you because you are unique as there is only one you, and there is no need to be anxious during a conversation. Other people's opinions are not important unless they are opinions that help you move in a more positive direction. And affirm you.Otherwise, they just aren't. That's the reality of the situation.If you take things that help your body and mind to be healthier, that's one thing. But drugs and substances that just act as a Band-Aid and just act like a crutch for what's really going on, which is you feeling intimidated by others, then you have to examine why you are taking them in the first place. And why you are letting other people intimidate you and make you feel uncomfortable.Sometimes I wonder about this... I mean, I wish, I just wish I could not rely on anything.
But it's incredible when a simple supplement makes the difference of being able to look to the eyes of the other person and not feeling anxious during a conversation or feeling relaxed and not having the shoulders always near the ears.
As I said, I don't like to rely on them either, but there's something happening here for sure.
I like Pure Science brand Pregnenolone 100mg. I recently bought Haidut's Stressnon and Pansterone. Both are wonderful.Me too. I can't even go to university because of social anxiety. Later, I found that you don't have to have a job to make a living. Stock market trading is the best way to make money.
Okay. I looked it up. I'd still say pregnenolone is worth trying.You understood me wrong. I don't want to change who I am. I am not shy person. I have social anxiety. It is a real disorder.
"Social anxiety disorder"
It is NOT about personality.
Let's say you have low pregnenolone and social anxiety. What would you think when people say: "don't change yourself, accept who you are"?
Like I said, it is not me. It is a disorder. It's hormonal. But I understand you. Many of people who have lack of confidence think that they have social anxiety disorder. But they don't.
I don't have lack of confidence. I am not a shy person, too.
Pulses and temps are good.Okay. I looked it up. I'd still say pregnenolone is worth trying.
For myself, I started on 100mg in the morning. If I trained (aikido), I took another when I got home. So, 200mg in total per day for maybe 2 wks and then I cut back. Maybe also Metergoline would be worth a try.
How are your pulses and temps?
It was like some kind of re-set for me while I was going through a rapid change of life events and pile-on of simultaneous "stuff." Now usually, I just do 4 drops Pansterone. I go by feel.Pulses and temps are good.
I know that women need high dose of pregnenolone but you still take too much.
Some of people say pregnenolone caused derealisation. Is it true? This scared me.It was like some kind of re-set for me while I was going through a rapid change of life events and pile-on of simultaneous "stuff." Now usually, I just do 4 drops Pansterone. I go by feel.
I have been always into spirituality and enlightenment. These are subjects that interest me very much.They might be "frenemies." Every picture of me as a little kid has my skinny bony shoulders near my ears.
It's taken a lot of years for me to drop them. Aikido/zen training obviously did make for immense changes, but then I also had an "all at once" experience. Some insight or enlightenment or awakening (a kensho in japanese) only maybe 10 months ago. It's very sudden. In a millisecond, literally everything disambiguates and becomes empty. I don't know. But it happened. My shoulders just dropped; I felt bliss and I have been fearless on the mat.
My journey before being here was:But what you are doing is giving other people more power than you should. They are people just like you. Flaws and all.I know this sounds like a greeting card or a self help saying, but you are more valuable than you realize simply for being you because you are unique as there is only one you, and there is no need to be anxious during a conversation. Other people's opinions are not important unless they are opinions that help you move in a more positive direction. And affirm you.Otherwise, they just aren't. That's the reality of the situation.If you take things that help your body and mind to be healthier, that's one thing. But drugs and substances that just act as a Band-Aid and just act like a crutch for what's really going on, which is you feeling intimidated by others, then you have to examine why you are taking them in the first place. And why you are letting other people intimidate you and make you feel uncomfortable.
Oh no. Not at all. Not for me anyway.Some of people say pregnenolone caused derealisation. Is it true? This scared me.
I can't count the number of people with my fingers that said that to me.You're letting a bit of discomfort keep you from doing anything. Feel the anxiety and do it anyway. A lot of athletes and performers get extremely nauseous before go time. They go out anyway. This is how life works. You have to suck it up.
I can't say anything wrt your "function".I have been always into spirituality and enlightenment. These are subjects that interest me very much.
Before being here, I was being followed by a physician with supplements that I have never tried them before in my life.
During that time, I felt so well with myself and all the "living in the Now" and doing meditation made even more sense.
However, I wasn't still having success at school... My OCD and ADHD never helped me when I had to really work.
Over time, I was taking less and less supplements and physical symptoms were starting to appear again (the one who frustrated me most was constipation which lead me to having hemorrhoids again). And she didn't me explain me what was happening... She would always tell that it was me that I achieve the state I was. All me (not supplements, of course...).
So I started to investigate about different diets and I end up on a very high carb diet.
Well, all I can say is that my constipation was gone... However, I never felt so cold and with excess adrenaline during my life.
My shoulders were even more near my ears these days...
What I want to say with this is, since then I took a break being into spirituality almost completely. Not that I doesn't matter to me anymore. It's just I can't achieve the peace I was having before when I was doing meditation, for instance. It's like, when I felt so calm with the supplements, all those things made even more sense to me. When I was doing a High Carb diet, I couldn't even meditate because how uncomfortable I was feeling.
So, I've concluded that indeed diets can affect me, that's why I am here today.
Now if I am ever going to find something that what works for me... I... I just don't know.
My journey before being here was:
- Psychologists (lots of them)
- Meditation/Spirituality
- Diets
And I completely agree with everything you've said. You clearly know this stuff. I've learned a lot about it when I was reading things regarding spirituality, but I couldn't never express myself to others about it like you did here.
I mean, do you know what OCD feels like to the point of not being able to leave home?
That's the thing. All those beautiful texts (and I agree with all of them) never helped me dealing with the symptoms I have.
I mean, if I was able to survive doing nothing, those words would be enough for me. But I am 25 years old and I've failed all the attempts on college (4 different courses). I've never achieved anything in my life and I am still not financially independent.
None of those words helped me having success on school or having a job. Like all those years going to psychologists, with all the conversations and beautiful things they've said to me, never make me really change when I had to be functional (but I've learned a lot with them, I can say). If I am a person that can't conclude some work on time, I'll get fired.
You see, we have to be functional. And I am not a functional person and I never was.
What would ray peat say? Do you think he would say this crippling social anxiety is do to lack of charecter or because the poster has the wrong "attitude"? hmmmm. (Answer is no btw)
Try progesterone. It's remarkable; caffeine is helpful as well.I will try progesterone too. I don't wanna play with my hormones but these hormones convert allopregnanolone. This is my last hope.
You are male? You've tried pills or cream?Try progesterone. It's remarkable; caffeine is helpful as well.