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I'm going to start taking zinc to reduce some anxiety symptoms and health related issues as  I have heard it helps.

I just have Zinc around for particularly pronounced episodes. It works as a stress-reducer and it gives less weight to the imagination. 

I stopped taking it as a daily thing when I began to notice a reduction in my sharpness. In a sense, it made me dumber and blinder, so I've chosen to instead just have it around for when things go too far. It also didn't actually stop episodes once I adjusted to them too much, while taking it when not as adjusted has it work more like an off switch. 

Roommates of mine were willing to try it as well once I started (it's just a supplement so why not?), and their reports back on the changes were surprisingly consistent with mine (within a less disorderly range of symptoms to affect). 

Turncoat said: 

I just have Zinc around for particularly pronounced episodes. It works as a stress-reducer and it gives less weight to the imagination. 

I stopped taking it as a daily thing when I began to notice a reduction in my sharpness. In a sense, it made me dumber and blinder, so I've chosen to instead just have it around for when things go too far. It also didn't actually stop episodes once I adjusted to them too much, while taking it when not as adjusted has it work more like an off switch. 

Roommates of mine were willing to try it as well once I started (it's just a supplement so why not?), and their reports back on the changes were surprisingly consistent with mine (within a less disorderly range of symptoms to affect). 

 Medicines seem to have a fickle nature in general.

Once working and you try to settle to such a prescription but either they stop working and you stop working with them.

I know the struggle and the resolve never seems to come. I tried Benadryl for my anxiety for a while but that shit makes me feel like a zombie. And kratom made my whole body number that benzos on a good day

I don't go any further than supplements for this sort of thing. Knowing that it's something I could just as easily find in the right foods makes me less nervous about it. 

It hasn't helped that my body's had odd responses to things like Benadryl in the past. 

Turncoat said: 

I don't go any further than supplements for this sort of thing. Knowing that it's something I could just as easily find in the right foods makes me less nervous about it. 

 It's funny years ago I remember reading you took zinc and it provided a temporary solution albeit completely by accident...I had similar results when I dressed a psoriasis patch on my leg with a common household item.

The next morning the patch was 90% gone.

It's strange some temporary miracles come by accident.

A focal point in science.

ScionReborn said: 

Turncoat said: 

I don't go any further than supplements for this sort of thing. Knowing that it's something I could just as easily find in the right foods makes me less nervous about it. 

It's funny years ago I remember reading you took zinc and it provided a temporary solution albeit completely by accident...I had similar results when I dressed a psoriasis patch on my leg with a common household item.

Yeah it was an exciting time, especially when I was that deep-end crazy and new to the experience and found my first sense of an exit door. 

Shame it wasn't permanent, but it is helpful knowledge. 

It's strange some temporary miracles come by accident.

A focal point in science.

A lot of our best things are accidents, like Viagra or Penicillin. 

In this case Zinc helps by treating symptoms of the problem instead of the problem itself. 

...there's a myriad of reasons as to why that is a complicated thing for corporations to factor. 

Turncoat said: 

ScionReborn said: 

Turncoat said: 

I don't go any further than supplements for this sort of thing. Knowing that it's something I could just as easily find in the right foods makes me less nervous about it. 

It's funny years ago I remember reading you took zinc and it provided a temporary solution albeit completely by accident...I had similar results when I dressed a psoriasis patch on my leg with a common household item.

Yeah it was an exciting time, especially when I was that deep-end crazy and new to the experience and found my first sense of an exit door. 

Shame it wasn't permanent, but it is helpful knowledge. 

It's strange some temporary miracles come by accident.

A focal point in science.

A lot of our best things are accidents, like Viagra or Penicillin. 

In this case Zinc helps by treating symptoms of the problem instead of the problem itself. 

...there's a myriad of reasons as to why that is a complicated thing for corporations to factor. 

 whats is like having this condition lately? do yous see things, how often, and what are they? or is it not that kind of hallucinations and or delusions? although i know delusions to not have seeing things

I've been keeping myself relatively stress free, so it's been more of a matter of daily upkeep to keep myself balanced. When things seem like they could stress me out, I have the environment right now to focus on them and try to make them less heavy one at a time, like training. 

During more excitable times like plans or being dragged along for spontaneous things it can be more difficult for me to remain composed (internally anyway), so those can be more taxing times, but when in a nice comfortable environment it's like I can focus it all in more singular directions. 

I tend to be better at 1-on-1 or small group dynamics. Interacting with crowds of people is essentially overstimulating unless they are entirely in their own world (like Tokyo or New York). I love being sensitive enough to see a lot about people, but that same sensitivity backfires when there's too much to focus on at once, especially if I'm already carrying a high stress load. 

Stress is my mind killer, to the point where my life path is one of comforts. I've practically formed a life path around denaturing stressful stimulus into something more manageable to try to combat these advancements, but as I get better at it it also gets worse on it's own alongside it, like I'm racing it. 

TLDR: It's constant upkeep, but the prize is experiences and the further means of being stable as my perceptions grow more sensitive and I risk becoming less grounded more easily. 

Right you wanted more direct symptoms. 

Racing thoughts, mood swings, word clutter, paranoid delusions of varying degrees, flights of perceived "invincibility" from pushing myself to "not care anymore ahahaha", suicidal ideations that increase from inner dialogue basically just repeating it like an itch, having my thoughts split into multiple nameless me's that argue with me the way I'd argue with other people (the way you see on here), it's a mess. 

Hallucinatory symptoms tend to be auditory and olfactory, but with enough sleep deprivation or being under enough stress and it can become visual. This isn't common, but college pushed those limits enough to have me walking around yelling at myself and responding to myself as the other half of the conversation in public, hit a stop sign and start laughing maniacally in public with fucking witnesses watching it, walking around looking freakish, it wasn't a good look. 

As per usual with disorders, there's a list of positive symptoms (the ones that aren't normally there) and negative symptoms (things that are missing). I'm pretty used to the stuff I can't do easily (like sleeping), but there's no getting used to the stuff that's constantly changing. 

Edit: If you want the symptoms more like a checklist or something that might be more presentable. In this form I'll always feel like I'm missing details.