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⌈ Secret Post #3021 ⌋

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Re: Advice for psychotic episodes?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

You're very welcome! I only get mega-paranoid when I fly, because the combination of jet lag and the industrial-strength decongestants I have to take, have me basically climbing the walls inside my own head. (Yeeeeah I don't travel well, so I don't travel if I can at all help it.) When it's full-on, I try to remind myself that, "Hey, Anon, this is a vestigial thing your brain is doing here, and the bonus to this is you have not been mugged or roofied or anything else sketchy at Hellmouth Heathrow yet, so it has its advantages." Do try and kick the antihistamines, dude! Gargling with saltwater, and using saline mist nasal spray helps during the height of allergy season.

Caffeine. Black tea has about 1/2 the caffeine of medium roast coffee, and dark roast coffee (as dark roast as you can stand) has the least amount. So, espresso shots also have the least amount of coffee. That's what I switch to, whenever I need to cut back. Chamomile tea is good for sedative/anxiety, though not at, like, medicinal levels, even if you brew it really strong. But hydration. Hydration helps everything. Can't stress this enough.

As for sleeping/eating...sleep hygiene is a thing (says the anon who is definitely not practicing good sleep hygiene right now I should have been screens off an hour and a half ago :P), and it's a thing that enables me, a lifelong chronic insomniac, to function like a mostly normal person in the 9-to-5 world. Try looking into that, it's rough to get sorted out at first, but well worth the effort after a month. Basically, you cut off caffeine and all light three hours before bedtime, stick to a strict bed TIME, i.e., go to bed at exactly the same time, and get up at exactly the same time, whether you sleep or not. (NGL here, the first 48 hours are gonna suck.) All electronics/light sources off at least two hours before bedtime.

ALSO. I am the anon above reccing you to discuss this stuff with your doctor and/or your specialist. They can help, too, or should be able to. That should be your first action, above all else.

Best of luck!

Re: Advice for psychotic episodes?

[(Anonymous)]

Re: Coffee and hydration: In addition to the anxiety, Coffee is a diuretic, so it can make you pee before you should, so that can have a demineralizing effect on you, and mineral imbalances in the brain are their own fun brand of problems, so there is one reason to try and diminish it during these periods.

And yes, water! Drink water. Sometimes getting your water from beverages and soups doesn't cut it.