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Consider valerian root or high dose of hemp. But yeah if Xanax is working and the only thing working then you have a decision to make - entrench Xanax as your sleep aid for the long term and foreseeable future or suffer in the short term to get off it. Not sure which to do that’s for you and your doctor. I chose to stop and it was 30 days of hell. Sleep was sporadic at best. Now that I'm through it, I’m glad I did it. But to be really honest nothing is going to work as well as Xanax if that’s what you’re using as a sleep aid and nothing will work well at all when you’re coming off Xanax. It’s purely a suffer through it situation. Now I just need to finish getting my sleep routine restored but another 6+ hour night last night and that’s 8-9 in a row after 16 weeks of totally destroyed sleep. baby steps …

The intended scope of this thread could be one of the greatest LOLs on this site if we could just be disciplined about it. Might even save a few lives. But no, we gotta go off the rails. Surprised there’s no Chili’s or McRib talk by now. Mayo vs mustard, waffle vs curly fries, dogs vs cats, just fuck the whole thing up and have blood on your hands surly. Jesus.

86-0 fuck em.

I’ll try that! 5 months ago I slept fine 99% of the time sigh. My wife listens to audio books and podcasts with sleepy sounding voices when she can’t sleep which is sadly too often, I’ve done that the last few months some, spa music too. I’m actually banking on tackling the post Covid trauma straight up and just work through it and hoping the other side is my normal baseline. the good news I’m approaching 7 hours a night, up from 6, and it’s been for 7-8 nights in a row. Previously I would have 1-2 nights a week that were awful. It is still taking more time to fall asleep but I’m getting the rest. Best sleep since the beginning of July. Man oh man. I’m now starting a taper on hydroxyzine to get off that. Most say there is no need but a vocal minority of patients and providers suggest it might be needed. So 7 hours per night with help but it’s not the heavy stuff. I’ll look at adding calm to my basket of tricks, and one night at a time…

I have like 4 tweets, so I'm not worried about it. just don't want an active account. fuck that cesspool. Mark's shit too, it's all poison.

I never posted much but just deactivated thanks.

Playing like 5* freshmen.

Ambition and a Univ of Chicago degree can go a long way. but all of this degree talk is a far cry from the laughs I want when I come to the tell me about A&M thread.

What were McDonald’s and black’s ratings out of HS?

This why a championship defense is a must. I’m not particularly worried because I know we can hold them to probably 17 or less. I can’t imagine Texas offense scoring 17 or less against Arkansas even on a really bad day.

That guy is a beat down. Ugh. Couldn’t listen for more than 5 mins he’s a whiny little pecker face. Classic bag of dick eater from OU.

That would actually be the best possible outcome. Good enough for a reliable quality win, not good enough to win shit except the gator bowl or some non-playoff bowl like that.

This is so awesome to watch. Hoping for a schnellenberger, Gibbs, Blake repeat please.

Hate Week mother fuckers, embrace it. Destroy dreams, cause pain and suffering, crush ambition, squash criticism and annihilate the less fortunate. Take it out on arky, all of it. Every last drop of frustration left on the field in the ozarks. Fuck them all to hell.

SEC final the three talking heads ranked top five only one had A&M on their list at #5…. Texas #1 in two and #2 in the other. Doesn’t matter games have to be played but most think of the top 5, A&M most likely to be left out.

Talk about the election elsewhere this thread is for the el oh els.

Looks like the horns will be back up to #3…. Sorry dawgs, you gotta wanna be there week in and week out not just when you come to Austin.

Started CRM therapy about 3-4 weeks ago it’s incredible especially when coupled with ketamine, I’m doing 2 hour sessions on Saturday morning then 45 min ketamine on my own meaning no therapy just sit back and relax. It’s an incredible combo, and actually two stellate ganglion blocks for covid and PTSD/anxiety plus CRM and ketamine have really produced some incredible changes and that’s excluding the straight up benefit of the stellate ganglion block on post Covid physical symptoms for which it is as a miracle. on the mental health side that triad is money. CRM includes a lot of breathing work, to establish a connection to the body, then you do a bunch of imagery work to integrate all your trauma and overwhelming feelings and maladaptive strategies for wellness. It’s a bit hocus pocus but truthfully if folks accept the neurobiological benefits of ketamine I would then say CRM is very similar except it’s more active and harder to achieve the trance like state but once you do the work is transformative. it’s designed for complex PTSD, dissociative and attachment disorders. I’m probably officially in the attachment disorder camp with some other trauma / PTSD mixed in. Thankfully I’m highly adaptive and not disabled by it but I’d like a calmer life and this is working really well. https://comprehensiveresourcemodel.com

It was critical to my healing, there is no doubt about it. So I do not criticize it across the board at all. It does alter the physical structure of your gaba receptors though so use judiciously. I’ve found valerian root 400-600 mg to be really great the last few weeks. I also take 50-100mg of quality hemp oil softgels.

And unfortunately mixed with some good shit too. There is no doubt big pharma has a stranglehold on the system and the FDA but Jesus Johnny let’s not toss gold standard double blind control group studies out the window.

Yeah they are awful. I’ll tune in at certain events and times but they are a net negative like social media.

My system was off a little bit more timing less qualitative change. Yeah it’s called benzo belly. No I didn’t really have that. but fuck me the chest pain was legit.

Hydroxyzine is a better med than Benadryl for sleep - it also has anti anxiety, bronchial dilating, and skeletal muscle relaxing properties -and both are H1 antihistamines the only concern with the H1s is the correlation to dementia.

I went cold turkey and didn’t realize I could go .125mg and even switch to Valium and taper further. To be honest though I wasn’t exactly everyday and I wanted off. I think I was a low enough dose to be ok but I probably made it a tad rougher on myself. But I’m done. It’s over. I won’t say never but I will suffer a lot to avoid needing Xanax again. And to be clear I was in a fucking sleep deprivation hellscape when I took it to begin with.

I found all the talk about this and that for sleep especially sleep hygiene was bullshit when I truly needed Xanax and when I was coming off it. And to be clear to heal I had to sleep and it’s the only thing that worked - I tried everything and other meds too. Nothing worked it’s why I had it, and withdrawal insomnia is just something you have to deal with. Thankfully I was mostly healed from post Covid when I came off it. now it’s definitely back to good sleep hygiene, and I think understanding what your brain needs to sleep is critical. Vitamins and supps can be really helpful if there isn’t a serious issue like withdrawals.