Post by JJ on May 13, 2017 22:32:06 GMT -5
I too suffer from GAD. Mostly PTSD related and I don't sleep very much. Sometimes it's hard to explain to people. I have a pretty good life now and am financially secure and a nice wife and kid. People wonder why I would have any reason to get any sort of anxiety. Especially any sort that requires medication. I used to eat Klonipin and Lorazepam like candy just to sleep. My doc suggested just taking some benadryl to get away from the hard stuff. That just left me lethargic throughout the rest of the day. I wanted to get away from any med just to sleep and started to go with natural stuff. I used valarian root for a while. A Polynesian friend introduced me to Kava root. Not the pills or tea or extract that they sell in health food stores. The whole root. Chew on a a chunk like a Somali with a mouthful of khat and I'm good and relaxed and ready to go to sleep. It's kind of expensive but very worth it so as not to get addicted to big pharma's tit.
Definitely GAD here as well. Kava root... I bought the full powder online and made the actual coffee type drinks with it. Holy shitballs, couldn't even stand after a few. I've since gone to the extract capsules occasionally, combined with those adaptogens I mentioned. You might really benefit from those, they're pretty amazing combined. The other thing that works in a pinch is a nootropic called phenibut. It's like a very light ativan. Completely legal, can buy online for dirt cheap. Reduces anxiety but enhances concentration, so it can be used for day or night.
Phenibut is legal and available in the US but is a controlled substance in most other countries. It was developed in Russia to treat the symptoms of anxiety without making the user drowsy. The effect on me is mood elevation and the inability to stop talking.