Does anyone else here take anxiety pills before games due to social anxiety or is that just me?
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Does anyone else here take anxiety pills before games due to social anxiety or is that just me?
dude what they're not like cough drops you don't-
Did he die
I normally just have a scotch before my players arrive
I have a bourbon shot dropped in a pint of smithwicks
Great idea! I just downed a diazepam before my game. I don't know why I never thought of this OP
I usually just have some rum
I usually just play the game.
But I understand where this is coming from. Had a game a year ago that was pretty bad for my mental health. Players were awful people that I thought were friends. Glad I left.
You the gm or another player? What was the last straw? Did you find another group? No gaming is better than bad gaming. At least you got away from it and didn't keep digging that hole.
I don't have social anxiety being a GM or player tbh so I don't need something beforehand.
Me and my pal smoke weed during the games though.
We played Shadowrun and called one of our more overly verbose players Smoke Break because whenever his turn comes up we can go outside, smoke a bowl, chat, bullshit, and go back in and he won't even be done asking about the layout of the room.
This is really funny honestly. When I did a dnd campaign a few summers ago with friends we did it at the dms house which was this massive house in the middle of the woods. We’d all split up sessions by going into the backyard and smoking a hookah together it was nice.
If you don't have homemade brain chemicals, store-bought is fine.
No. But I had a ganglion of my sympathetic nervous system blocked (look up ETS operation), because I suffered heavily from spontaneous blushing and general hightened levels of anxiety. This will maybe kill me down the line at some point in the future lol but so far it was without a doubt the best decision of my life so far.
>Ganglion ETS surgery for anxiety and blushing
Holy shit, this is actually a real thing. Also for treating hyperhydrosis? Do you have sweaty palms anon lol
I usually drop loads of LSD.
Those sessions must be something else.
Depends if the players also took some. Listening to the inaudible murmuring of a dude on a heavy LSD trip, while you yourself are sober, doesn't make for a good session, I feel.
I have anxiety but I feel like I have to take energy drinks before doing a game, in-person or online. I have dyscalculia and even basic counting is a problem unless I'm really, really awake.
No, I get a huge kick out of socializing with people I like. Ive had rough exhaustive days and instead of a beer or coffee I call up friends, bust out board games, and feel wired for the rest of the night.
Bur you do what you gotta do to enjoy yourself.
This.
Game day is fun together with friends, food, games, and laughter.
I miss it.
You are lucky you emotionally recharge by socialising
>You are lucky you emotionally recharge by socialising
100% and i count my lucky stars that its stays that way over the decades.
If my brain chemistry should change and I don't feel the thrill of hosting and bringing joy to people, it is the beginning of the end for my emotional well being.
I usually take something for social anxiety. It's a moronic condition but I can't help it, I just wish my community was more comfortable to be around and accepting of me having it so I didn't have to use meds to feign being normal and not a stuttering autist
Stop watching girl cartoons and accept that you are handsome and cool in your own way. Do something with yourself.
This is a moronic comment. If anon actually has real social anxiety problems then telling yourself that you are handsome and cool in your own way will do nothing to help as soon as they realize that people are uncomfortable around them. It's therapy or being lucky enough to end up becomming friends with someone who is nice enough that they can open up eventually.
It's the normies that are the scum anon, accept this and you will be free.
I solved my (mild) social anxiety in two ways:
1. Forcing myself to interact with people even if I come across as a moron (desensitizing).
2. Embracing the fact that I come across as a moron and allowing people to think I'm strange (attempting to soothe the source of the anxiety).
People still think I'm a frickwit but at least now I am capable of developing relationships and can do small talk without it getting awkward.
After a while I got to the point where I was willing to express my sense of humour with people I don't know well, and even if the jokes fall flat I only say them because they're funny to me, rather than because I hope they'll impress someone else.
Hope this helps. Again, my case was fairly mild. I have family with crippling social anxiety so I know it can be hard just to go outside sometimes.
No, but I'm schizo so I take pills every night to stay sane
Whenever I'm preparing shit for a session and I get writers block I just stop taking my schizo meds for a day. Works every time. Divine inspiration is real.
Whats it actually like with and without those meds for you?
I firmly believe schizophrenics are in touch with an extra-dimensional being
>Clockwork
>Elves
I GM and I've got pretty bad anxiety, but I usually just psyche myself up before a game and drink a shitload of caffeine and energy drinks. Once I've got myself wire enough I could fight God, then I'm good to GM.
Pathetic zoomer homosexual.
Sack up.
>Sack up.
If it were up to me, you'd never hear another bit of advice in your life except for that, with all the compassion that goes with it.
Thanks. Thatcs unironically what should happen.
>Sack Up
Eh. Some people just suffer anxiety. Can't tell them to just sack up, thats why the meds exist.
Also, some groups are just fricking toxic. People can be awful to be around, especially hurtful when you think they are your friends. If you are in that situation OP, I suggest leaving even if it stings in the short term. Will be much better off later.
>Eh. Some people just suffer anxiety. Can't tell them to just sack up
eh, as someone with anxiety just sacking up is how I've approached it. Like you will be perpetually uncomfortable and constantly fighting the instinct to completely avoid human contact but you'll eventually learn what to do and how to act so it isn't immediately obvious. One trick I do is to set myself up by making promises and arrangements that would only cause me more shame if I backed out. Trap yourself so that the only path is forward.
anxiety is a b***h but please make sure you're medicating responsibly anon
are you just too scared to go to the doctor and actually fix your shit
Doctor's how I found out anything was wrong. Had medication for a while until insurance shenanigans, then decided getting used to it was better than relying on the US healthcare system
>It's the D and D group's fault I'm a stuttering anxious pussy
No
I was a group once with an sjw who hated white straight men. Didn't know it until she started playing. When the group of people I was with took her side and not mine, and with most of those people having been friends, it was hurtful, made me feel like something was wrong with me, and made me anxious each time the campaign started.
So one day I spoke my mind and left. Felt good, glad I did it. So yes, sometimes the group is fricking hell, especially in this atmosphere.
Pussy. Learn to spot toxic people beforehand like a proper human being and spit at their table before leaving.
Having bad experiences with toxic people and dealing with it poorly is the best way to learn how to deal with them better in the future.
If you learn from the experience
>You don't understand, I NEED my drugs, we've ALWAYS NEEDED anti-anxiety pills from pharmaceutical companies, I mean, imagine if I didn't have them and someone looked at me or asked me a simple question???
>People can be awful to be around, especially hurtful when you think they are your friends.
If your group of playmates is so bad you need medication to hang out with them, yes it's definitely time for a new group.
>He says, on Ganker
He is doing. That's what the meds are for.
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200 to 400mg of caffeine, 2 to 5 grams of kratom and some weed
That includes interviews
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No, I just kept doing it over and over again until I got over it.
I don't take meds, but I am legitimately autistic and sometimes it takes a minute to psych myself up to go out to the game.
I used to run on 5mg zyprexa few years ago, then cut it to 2.5mg and eventually dropped it completely. Pills are crutch, use them to prop yourself up and make initial steps to recovery easier, but don't stay reliant on them.
i was wondering why on earth youd need panic meds for hanging out with friends.
i deal with ALOT of anxiety and panic and when i played DnD with my HS frens i never felt super duper anxious or panicky because i was frens with all of them and knew all of them for years and years,
but i guess its different when youre an adult and youre playing DnD with casual "frens" that you might not have known as long or as deeply
but i do understand the "just get over it or sack up mentality" that you cant just switch off anxiety or panic like a light switch, since i have it i get it
for me i think you have these options:
1) you might be playing with ppl that you arent close with or trust or feel safe with and therefor you probably shouldnt be playing with those ppl OR it might just be in your head so they might not be horrible ppl but you just have wired triggers that go off because of your past experiences..
2) talk to your group about your social anxiety and seeing how friendly and compassionate or understanding or caring they are to you about it
3) the ppl that you play with might actually be bullying mean or rude or controlling or toxic ppl and you should not play and find a new group to play with
when youre with actual friends you should at some level feel comfortable around them to the point where you shouldnt HAVE to take benzos everytime you spend time throwing dice on a table and playing make believe..
its unsustainable, youll either become a benzo addict because youre having to take them so often, or youll become an alchoholic or weed addict because youre substituting benzos for other easier to get or less physically harmful drugs to get thru regular fun times with friends
if you HAVE to do this everytime when youre supposed to be relaxing and having fun with friends then are you REALLY having fun??
i can understand feeling this way if youre going out in public to a cramped club or music festival or whatever but not when youre chilling with frens at your place.
Extremely underrated post. Drugs are fun, but if you create an association between something you perceive as unpleasant and "self-medicating", that's a really easy way to become dependent on a substance.
Seriously, read this OP
>when i played DnD with my HS frens i never felt super duper anxious or panicky because i was frens with all of them and knew all of them for years and years,
Well that's good for you, for me I get so much anxiety being around others that it makes it unenjoyable. The solution for me isn't to just not interact with humans ever, that would be horrible
>if you HAVE to do this everytime when youre supposed to be relaxing and having fun with friends then are you REALLY having fun??
I don't have fun when I'm internally panicking the entire time over whether I'm being spergy or not, or freezing up when an npc talks to me and then feeling like shit the rest of the night
Benzos just allow me to socialize and have fun doing it
youre not supposed to not feel anxiety
How the frick did you get all the way to the point of medication without knowing what social anxiety is
No, I'm the opposite. I'm prepping the entire night and morning before a session. By the time session starts, I've been working on prep for about 8 hours and need a coffee/tea before I start.
I started drinking bits before social gatherings just so I can feel comfortable and at ease around others and socialize better.
Yes I have developed alcoholism. But yes it did help me for a while, so frick it if that's what normies want.
I always knew roleplaying games were for sheltered pussies who’ve never done anything terrifying in their lives.
>speak for yourself..
on my 18th birthday i had a good friend drunkinly shove a gun in my face..
ive snuck in and out of train yards, and climbed fences, and buildings, to paint graffiti..
ive had to run from gangs just because my and frens wanted to skateboard..
but yes im a sheltered pussy that only plays roleplaying games.
>i do have the feeling that i am the exception and not the rule..
>on my 18th birthday i had a good friend drunkinly shove a gun in my face..
Do Americans really?
It's good to know more and more black people are getting into rpgs
how many black ppl do you know or see skateboard??
The afropunk subculture got big over a decade ago anon, keep up with the times
>muh shit friends
>muh grafeety
>muh Mexicans chasing me off their trailer park
Is this what it takes to look hard on /tg/?
The frick do you have anxiety for, you're playing make believe with friends
>with friends
>friends
Its different when you're playing with people who arent extremely close friends you're totally comfortable being yourself with. Maybe people you're not friends with yet but you want to impress, coworkers, girls you have a crush on ...
>girls you have a crush on ...
Anon, you are playing a dangerous game, and I'm not talking about D&D, you fricking madlad.
I cannot relate here at all. I have played games for 35 years to get away from reality, from bullshit. I can understand taking drugs or drinking or going batshit crazy and shooting people every other hour of the week *except* during gaming.
Gaming is my drug of choice.
>"or going batshit crazy and shooting people every other hour of the week"
You need to see a doctor
Now I may be lumpy, overweight, and Autistic.. with a healthy dose of Aspergers, ADHD, OCD, and Social Anxiety Disorder combined with an even worse layer of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. But I know for a fact that you are supposed to take medication for anxiety at the start or end of your day. Taking it in the middle of the day will only throw your shit off whack unless you aren't actually suffering from a real Anxiety disorder and only need a small dosage to take the edge off.
The shit they put me on is the maximum that's allowed and it lasts me the whole day. Then they hit me with even stronger shit at night to turn my brain off and keep my moronation in check.
The people I frequent with know and tolerate my stupid ass for this long so I'm thankful for the medication helping me be more tolerable.
Still tho. If you have mess for Anxiety. They are almost always prescribed to be taken in the morning as soon as you wake up and find the motivation to convince yourself that getting out of bed isn't going to hurt you.
>The shit they put me on is the maximum that's allowed and it lasts me the whole day
Frick, man. What did the doctor order you? Clonazepam, alprazolam or diazepam? I hope he didn't give you antipsychotics for anxiety like some do around here, those doctors deserve to be shot.
I get a nice fat mixed bag of Clonodine, Topirimate, Trozodone, Citalopram and a few others I can't recall for the night. These guys put me flat on my ass and I can reasonably sleep anywhere from 4 to 10 hours. With the odd waking up due to outside interraction or nature calls.
The bonus to taking such a large dose in the evening, is that the medication remains in my system until the next evening due to its slow metabilization rate.
In the morning, or afternoon in rare cases! I get the happy pills to supplement the anxiety medication that are now sufficiently brewing in my system. A huge dose of Sertraline as my serotonin re-up-take is fricked.
My ritual was to have a meal before game, drink a beer or cider with it, and then sip an energy drink while I was running the game for the rest of the night. Kept me in the right head space.
I can honestly say I never once felt awkward or self conscious because most gamers are disgusting or complete fricking pussies. For me, if I'm in a room with men I know I could man handle and crush two at a time, I mean, what's to be worried about lol
I get intimidated by the displays of masculinity and socialization even the most pathetic nerdy men tend to make
I like to have a bit of a buzz for D&D, yes. Perhaps 4/10 as a DM 6/10 as a player
I'm diagnosed with a bunch of stuff and anti-depression and anti-anxiety meds are part of my daily routine. sometimes my emotions dip in and out but a lot of the time that's the part of things I have to handle with shit like affirmations and personal awareness because medication will only handle things so far.
roleplaying with friends does help, but being the DM is...you know..a source of anxiety on it's own.
For me is weed, beer and Adderall. Most people I play with have adhd and could legitimately benefit from taking amphetamine before sitting down to focus on long form narratives. I'm literally the only one that is paying attention and maintaining immersion while playing and I wish others could get on my level for once.
Adderall erodes the enamel of your teeth pretty hard I hear, stay on top of brushing.
Sometimes I wish I had a prescription for it since I have ADHD.
Instead, my go to is a double shot of espresso two to three times a day, which also stains and erodes the teeth.
I don't think I could handle drinking and GMing.
>I don't think I could handle drinking and GMing
It really depends on the game and the group. I wouldn't drink during the first session and I don't start drinking until during the session when I'm the DM but if I'm DMing for a group I don't feel comfortable having a drink or two with during the game I'm going to lose interest in that group pretty quickly. This has actually come to be one of the deciding factors in if I want to be a player or the DM (I drink while I play regardless)
>erodes enamel
>make sure to scrub remaining enamel off
Wot?
I don't care for pills.
I'll have a shot beforehand and a beer during. Never enough to even get a solid buzz because the game quality will fall off real quick but a little booze keeps the wheels greased
this. A drink and a half in is when man is at his best
>tfw having a small side house when growing up, I'm about 15-16 here
>It's just a storage shack, but I put a table, some chairs and ligths
>Would dm there for two different groups I made from randos
>Some come and go, some dudes are steady players
>Teached an overall 15 guys how to play from scratch
> Groups gets close, become friends
>Some days staying all night, doing as much noise as we wanted
>Dreamhouse lasts about 4-5 years, untill we move out
>It's a small house
>can't do that anymore, no more games
>Life goes on
>I'm 34 now
>Renting, have shitty neighbors and a gf
>I still dream about having my own house, with a small shack that will be only mine, and that I could once again pull off some young dudes and play all night
>My work doesn't allow it
>My house doesn't allow it
>My gf thinks I just want to frick young girls
>I just want to play all night, once again
>>I just want to play all night, once again
My brother's friend introduced me to d&d. He had a room setup in a kinda isolated part of the house. Could pretty much make as much noise as we wanted.
There's something special about having a private space, where everyone in the space is at the table, engaged in the session.
You'll find your special place. Either at a friend's place, or something you'll make yourself. Goals are what keep us going
> I could once again pull off some young dudes
…
I think it’s you, I don’t allow alcohol or drugs at my table.
If you don't allow alcohol at your table then what else are Martials supposed to do when the party isn't in combat?
reflect life choices that steered them wrong including, but not limited to, playing martial
I obviously meant the physical table we sit at. Their characters can do whatever they wish in the game.
>feel anxious before the game I'm going to GM
>think of excuses to call it
>times up and its time to start
>start the game and it goes away instantly
>everyone had fun
>repeat this process every week
I don't even know why I feel this way.
You have a literal disorder
Stage fright isn't a disorder, you self-overmedicated American
I forgot there was this gentle and sensitive side on Ganker. Thanks for reminding me why I keep coming back here
>American daytime hours
>Pills for solving personality and character issues
>Mocked by morons who instead drink up to be "manly"
>Thread dies the moment Yanks go to sleep
>None of this had anything to do with /tg/
Sorry you're poor
No, rabbi, i have no intention of "medicating" myself.
Sertraline + Exercise + Therapy + a job in which you have full control is the only answer anon.
>a job in which you have full control
BDSM dominatrix?
>Woo feeling a bit worked up
>Open the cupboard and take out a few PharmaBrand Anxipram
>Ahh much better
Do amerifats really? Anxiety meds aren't like taking heartburn relief.
It's just you, your anxiety is almost certainly more to do with a severely unhealthy kind of lifestyle than any actual chronic physical medical condition that would actually merit medication as an intervention.
What whoever has pushed pills to you has lied to you about is that anxiety is abnormal and requires medical treatment. The reality is that everyone feels anxious sometimes, sometimes you feel anxious about a lot of things, normal healthy people learn to cope with a certain baseline level of anxiety inducing things in their lives.
Before pills you just had anxiety, which you can through practice learn to just accept and deal with, now, after pills you STILL have anxiety and ALSO a drug dependency.
I feel like you or any memberr of your family has never experienced GAD or any other serious mental health issue. What you're saying is akin to telling a person with chronic depression to just cheer up.
Which people do.
I've been bleakly depressed, anxious, and unable to focus before for something like three or four years, pills were advised and tried and were a miserable failure. Turned out what I needed in my life were concrete goals and self discipline, while I recognize some people do suffer from chronic and debilitating mental health issues I think it's fairly insane to jump straight from "I feel anxious" to "I should take psychotropic drugs".
Unless OP is actually diagnosed with a severe anxiety disorder which does not respond to a combination of lifestyle change and behavioral therapy he shouldn't be going anywhere near pills.
The "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" advice. Do you also find jobs by marching into a place of business, slapping a CV on the counter and giving everyone a firm handshake?
I do prefer to meet in person for a job interview rather than doing the online form dance, but most businesses don't even bother to make it an option. This isn't particularly relevant to OP though, and while you are deliberately trying to mangle my position, all I'm really suggesting is that OP try some less extreme strategies to manage his anxiety before jumping straight to mind altering drugs.
If at the end of it all self-care, then external therapy still can't help OP, then and only then should drugs be considered a treatment to manage a chronic illness. Since OP did not claim to be diagnosed with any chronic anxiety disorder, or suffer from a previous severe injury or traumatic experience which would indicate something more severe, I take the impression that they are self medicating and/or being medicated based on irresponsible drug prescription.
>Do you also find jobs by marching into a place of business, slapping a CV on the counter and giving everyone a firm handshake?
Nta, but I actually do.
But I'm a construction engineer, so this is the sort of job that works this way, rather than a market standard.
The problem is that it's a shit-tier employment, for it's super-unstable by itself, but once you have a contract, it's a good money to make up the weeks/months when you are eating your savings.
No lie but that's how I got my first job. Boss literally told me only reason I even got an interview was because I impressed him when I handed in the application.
Though now nobody even accepts in person applications lol. Sucks to be zoomers.
Come to think of it, I often jerk off before sessions, makes for good stress relief.
I jerk off every day before work. It really does take the edge off.
What sort of work are you doing?
I work at Pizza Hut. Don't worry. I always wash my hands twice before any hand-dirtying activities, as per regulations.
It really doesnt. Gives you petite morte. you would probably actually function better horny. You just psi op-ed yourself into thinking fells good=prepared. If you are going to jerk off, do it after a session. People tend to be sleepy after sex, horny makes you feel like you need to do something.
I cannot properly GM if I am not in the process of having an out-of-body experience.
I still get mild performance anxiety after years of GMing, but a nice cup of coffee and 100mg L-Theanine get me in a nice focused and relaxed state.
Why are zoomers such sheltered pussies?
>have job, wife, house, etc
>can converse with weirdos who approach in public while wife freezes up
>job is 100% social, constant interaction with people in all moods
>tiring but it's a good gig and coworkers say they like me/I'm goid at it
However
>wife has to send food back for me if they screw up
>0 friends, never leave the house
>join a fricking Discord for a PbP living world game
>never talk, scared to join a session, shake like a leaf and make stupid mistakes when I finally do join a simple encounter
>have to stop myself from panic leaving the server from time to time
I'm staying in this shitty ass Discord and I'm forcing myself to play until I stop being a pussy. Then I'll move up to voice chat or maybe wargames at the LGS. I'm going to improve, damnit.
>I'm going to improve, damnit.
This, THIS anon is going to make it.
There's a big difference between doing something for a job and having to do something for your own benefit isn't there. Though as Yoda would say, "No! No different! Only different in your mind." and you understand you can change your behaviour. Good on you anon for working on a gradual exposure/desensitising programme of your own invention.
There are a few good books on CBT, REBT and/or ACT for clients (rather than therapists) which it seems like you've got the cajones to actually follow through on like The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety. Something like that might be of some use to you and I'm sure you could find more if that one doesn't seem like a good fit but you're interested in some other ideas. Regardless, good on you for sticking with your own programme.
No, why would I?
Just have a beer while you're waiting for your players to show up.
How would that help?
Alcohol helps with nerves. You can relax and get loose without getting sloshed.
I would rather smoke.
Smoking is worse.
Isn't nicotine a stimulant? It doesn't actually help reduce your anxiety, smokers are just giving their body a hit of the chemical its addicted to. Unless you mean weed instead of tobacco.
Alcohol and benzo both have in common that they suppress central nervous functions, mostly by inhibiting GABA.
Most alcohol has a similar effectiveness to 'short-acting' benzos, with a similar sort of 'come down' effect, which is a big factor in why people tend to abuse one or both.
There's a lot of talk about there about how alcohol's only useful "at first" and "better be careful not to become an alcoholic!" while pharma grits their teeth and doesn't say the exact same shit about fricking Lexapro or whatever else.
Point is, no medication for anxiety is totally safe. A beer won't kill you as long as you don't have a deathwish, and could actually be helpful in maintaining mood levels.
sure, but you have to suffer through the tase of beer for it.
drink cider
its like getting buzzed or drunk off of literal apple juice
its fricking delicious and deceptive
it's ok, but beer is better, it has more estrogen than any other food.
>suffer through the tase of beer
Is there a link between autism and the inability to enjoy bitter flavors? I've seen it several times.
I'm about 100% sure that those over the counter pills are just sugar pills.
I take 2-3 grams of vitamin c. For some reason it lowers my anxiety
I highly recommend Kratom OP. It’s soothing, doesn’t get you high, isn’t addictive, and is super easy to get in the US because it’s legal. Really nice for mellowing out and being more social and warm when you don’t need the extreme effect of a pill. Try it.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/in-depth/kratom/art-20402171
>Kratom: Unsafe and ineffective
thank you for posting this, i was very curious and excited about trying Kratom then i read this and NOPED the frick out of that
at least with CBD and Cannabis you cant Overdose and die from it, and with low amounts of alchohol like 1 can of beer or cider its not super duper dangerous
Kratom seems like a gamble with lots of risks for rewards that you can get from much more reliable or safer alternatives like CBD or low THC and High CBD weeds or mild alchohols
I drink 24 ounces of coffee over the course of the session because I am a low energy shitty GM without it.
>Hobby is infested with drug abusers
No wonder trannies and degenerates infest this fricking medium.
chaser confirmed, troony nuts on mind 24/7
Grow some fricking balls, zoomer pussy.
You sound unpleasant to be around.
>Reddit response
Only to your kind. Why don't you go back to your people?
We don't owe you kindness.
Because if we let you bleed the wolves will smell you and will eat us all. Never bleed, never show weakness.
Who invited shadow the hedgehog to this thread?
Fricking kek, what an embarrassing post LMAO
Ya those are two cringey posts
The second one is funny on purpose, the first one is just pure unfiltered edge, I thought these frickers died off in the late 00s
DMing is the cure for my anxiety.
If you are mentally impaired to the point that hanging out playing a game with people causes you trauma, please stay out of this hobby. I am so tired of whack jobs treating D and D like it's some kind of free therapy session. It's not. We're here to have a good time, not cater to your fricking "triggers" or watch you use your various issues as a way to backseat DM and try and run the game without putting in the prep work involved.
I am a Dungeon master. I am not a therapist.
No X cards.
No lines and veils.
No homosexual safety tools beyond Session Zero, where we will roll up characters, banter, and let it be known there will be no safety tools so the neurotic tourists can GTFO.
Seek help if you need it, just not at my table.
>You have bought a ticket on my Rape Ghost Train Please keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times. Flash photography is prohibited because I don't want any evidence of my crimes.
>Needing Dr. Goldberg's prescription to function because of Dr. Goldberg's diagnosis.
The Zoom zoom generation is pretty much dead on arrival.
Man people weren't kidding about zoomers being the biggest pussies to ever walk the earth.
The day of the session i feel sick and have to shit and puke all day. During the session i have to have a couple drinks. Thats the only way i can cope with GMing.
>need to self medicate to hang out with your friends
what the frick is wrong with you?
I am insane manic depressed maniac I shift from stuttering sensitive walflower and confident outgoing chad
Yes I am completely insane and unstable and I WILL cry hysterically one day and act like nothing happened tomorrow
Anon you're not some quirky crazy joker character you're just bipolar.
They call his type borderline these days. Bipolars go on manic/depressive streaks lasting for months.
Do zoomers not have fathers?
I have two!
Gee Bill! How come your dad lets you have another dad?
I usually have a walk before hand, it's been a close call a couple times
Sorry that was meant to be wank not walk
Looking back, maybe its not so embarrassing that I wore jnco pants and listened linkin park when I was in my mid teens. God you little queers are an embarrassment.
I remember playing a game with one of these attention whoring gays. We'd have a session and he'd go "STOP THE SESSION. I'M HAVING AN ANXIETY ATTACK!!!!" Like damn, the little homosexual never did anything outside of combat. I was pretty sure he only showed up because the group gave him 10 free minutes of undivided attention once per session.
>this is PRECISELY the reason im scared and embarrassed to have a random Panic Attack in front of new friends or coworkers
Im worried theyll think im just attention grabbing or a weirdo or pathetic or something
When the fact of the matter is sometimes panic will randomly come out of nowhere when you least expect it and suddenly you feel like youre dying or choking or suffocating and while experiencing thet you also have to fight the screaming urge to not freak out in front of everyone or start panicking asking for help or whatever so youre trying to balance 2 fricking catastrophes on plates while feeling like youre legitimately about to die
Its the fricking worst, and usually why i try to go to the bathroom or outside or in another room to let myself ride out my panic attack and intense and terrifying feelings of impending death
It sucks because im worried that one of these days itll help to be around another person incase something truely bad happens but ill be so self conscious and worried about what others think that ill fricking die in a broom closet because i didnt want to inconvenience anyone..
>I hate panic disorder.
I will give you this tho, there are quite a few ppl usually young ppl, that will milk even the slightest bit of stress and try to make it seem like theyre panicking and want attention, i dont see it alot but i have seen some ppl do it and its obvious, and weird.
Thats a lot of dumb made up bullshit to excuse your need for unwarranted attention.
The only disorder you have is munchausen's and even that's a stretch. At best it's just bad parenting.
The world would be better off if people just gave attention prostitutes like you a solid beating whenever you act out.
Its obvious you didnt read a single fricking word i said..
Otherwise you'd already know that i go and hide when i have a panic attack because i DONT want to bring attention to it and embarrass myself you fricking idiot.
But ya play armchair psychiatrist and pretend you know what i experience and do.. ive only had panic attacks for over a literal decade and seen doctors and therapists for it but what do i or they know?..
>go have a nice day tool.
He's right, and you're pathetic. Get your shit together. It's a wonder how countless scores of your ancestors struggled and survived only to make someone who needs to run and hide because of anxiety, and only scrape by because of pills and therapists. Gotta wonder how your ancestors ever did it without a therapist.
>T. guy thats never had a panic attack before..
also why the frick are you getting pissy with me, at least i dont fricking attention prostitute myself because of it and have the decency to go and handle my shit away from ppl
somehow that means nothing to you, which means nothing i say or do will mean anything to you so..
>go frick yourself homosexual
P.S panic isnt something you can just "pull yourself up from your bootstraps" with, its fricking hardwired into your brain and nervous system the same way you naturally panic when you slip on ice and fall, or when someone is trying to mug you in an alley, or break into your house, its fight or flight adrenaline that overrides any thought or emotion or rationality you have
but ya ill just tell my nervous system to kindly please not panic..
what fricking planet are you on you mongoloid?
open up a medical book.
>its fricking hardwired into your brain and nervous system the same way you naturally panic when you slip on ice and fall, or when someone is trying to mug you in an alley, or break into your house, its fight or flight adrenaline that overrides any thought or emotion or rationality you have
I'm really trying to wrap my head around just how dysgenic you are here. Because your examples only make women cry and sob and shake uncontrollably. A man gets in a fight, he deals with the adrenaline, but he can talk and function and breath just fine, he doesn't become useless.
Of course, then there's you. Someone looks at you sideways and you can't breath and have to run away from people. That's not a normal fight or flight response, that's bullshit therapists tell you to sell you more pills and more sessions.
You better start agreeing with the other anon who insists it's fake, for your own sake. Because if it's real, it's incredibly pathetic, and so weak as to cause disgust in the people around you.
>says the guy thats never felt panic in his entire adult life..
thanx please give me life advice and judgement about more topics you know so much about 🙂
>A man gets in a fight, he deals with the adrenaline, but he can talk and function and breath just fine, he doesn't become useless.
tell that to all the military veterans that have done more "manly" shit than you'll EVER do in yours and my entire life time, that comes home and heres a firework and then panics and feels like he's going to die because of a frag grenade or bullet is being shot at him and cant breathe, sweats, hands start shaking, and cant calm down, and has 10/10 terror coursing thru his body
but ya he's just a useless gay pantywaste, he's not even worthy of being called a man, even tho him and literally hundreds of thousands of men like him have done shit that would haunt your dreams till you die..
>go act like mr tough homosexual on some other Taiwanese Basket Weaving Dungeons & Dragons Board Game Forum.. you aint fooling anyone here.
>>says the guy thats never felt panic in his entire adult life..
Of course I've felt panic before. I'm just not dysgenic and don't become a crying, sobbing mess at the drop of a hat.
>but ya he's just a useless gay pantywaste, he's not even worthy of being called a man
Yes.
>even tho him and literally hundreds of thousands of men like him have done shit that would haunt your dreams till you die..
Cope
No point in believing you at face value. You're already faking a condition for attention so there's no doubt you'd lie about information too. I would totally call an ambulance or the police if you try that shit in my presence. 100% you would not be able to resist the attention from the crowd and the emergency personnel and keep the act going until you've been carted away. Whether you choose to get out half way doesn't matter as long as you've been ejected from my immediate vicinity.
Even better if you lock yourself in a room before you start doing your fake sobbing and gasping behind closed doors. I'm sure the owners would send you a repair bill after it gets broken to 'save' you.
>T. guy thats never had a panic attack before..
Because no one has had it. It's a fake condition designed to sell gaypills to the gullible. Does that shit even do anything? I bet it's just sugar pills, a prop by another word so you can flash it and make a show of taking it to collect sympathy.
>P.S panic isnt something you can just "pull yourself up from your bootstraps
It's not real
>but ya ill just tell my nervous system to kindly please not panic..
It's not real
>open up a medical book.
It's not real
>fight or flight isnt real
>adrenaline isnt real
>benzo's giving a sedating effect arent real
>panic isnt real
>nothing is real
jeeeeeesuz fricking christ dood
you sound like a bigger spaz than the ppl with mental disorders in here
good lord dood get some help, or get laid or something cause youre denying reality at this point like a whiny 2 yr old after a tantrum..
at a certian point basic fundamental truths are real
panic is real
its there to try to keep us humans protected by percieved and non percieved dangers
the fight or flight instinct is real, its to help keep us alive from life threatening situations
benzodiazapenes are real because they sedate and help calm you, they are NOT sugar pills, treating them like they are would fricking kill you after they collapsed your lungs from the extreme sedation effects of eating them like candy
>you are fricking moronic, this is the simple answer
The way you type invalidates your namecalling, while the paper thin made up arguments you present are rooted on emotion rather than fact. There is nothing you can say and nothing you can do. Your claims are invalid, and so is your 'condition'. Your fake wheezing and sobbing is just that - fake. Honest and simple, the only cure is to travel back in time and get your mom's boyfriend to beat some backbone into you.
I used to take the max dose of a really strong one every single day, but after years of treatment, I went sane and stopped taking them.
I had very serious (I used to wander around mumbling and arguing with myself, fully aware that it was crazy and unable to do frickall about it) brain problems though, anon. You shouldn't frick with that stuff unless you do.
Its called alcohol.
because this site attracts the literal worst sorts of people whom are incapable of interacting with others in a functional manner
this is their only chance to be the "cool tough guy"
>Anxiety
>Overmedication
>Drugging up on barbiturates instead of learning to dead with it
>Doctors are salesmen
This is the most american post i've seen here.
No. But afterwards I am usually drained and kind of...zone out/meditate
I usually have my wife give me a good sloppy blowjob, but that's just me.
The muslims are looking more and more rational by the year...
This is good, but I think a better response is to just call them an ambulance. Worse case they're insured and you outsource the whole attention part to a professional, but the best case is you double dare them on their fake illness and saddle them with an ambulance bill. Punching a diva in the face is satisfying, but it's just as good to hurt their finances instead.
are you moronic
you don't call an ambulance for an anxiety attack
god fricking damn are Ganker users stupid
jesus fricking christ I need to find a place with smarter people
Talk about missing the point. The ambulance isn't there to help them. Its so they get taken away, humiliated and made to pay an expensive ambulance bill.
as someone that deals with swallowing problems that make me feel like im choking as well as panic attacks, alot of the time its sometimes hard to tell if im having "JUST" a panic attack OR if its something real and serious and im actually choking or suffocating on something i just ate, and it can make me terrified and panicked and sometimes if its very serious feeling ill call 911 as an emergency if only to just have the dispatcher on the line for reassurance or a backup incase its real or serious and not just panic, usually after a few minutes talking to them and telling them not to immediately send an ambulance b/c it may just be panic brought on by my swallowing difficulties and my adrenaline and panic start to slowly go down ill apologize profusely and thank them and appreciate them wasting time on a doofus like me.
very rarely unless its 15/10 serious and scary shit, ill actually get them to send an ambulance, and even then ill try to explain my history to them and luckily theyll usually be very understanding and helpful and will usually insist on giving me at least a vital check even if its just intense intense panic
>from what ive learned as long as you dont get into the ambulance and they dont drive you anywhere, you wont get charged money for it. At least here in Canada anyway..
also ive noticed small town or small city paramedics are usually extremely friendly and nice and even got to know a few since i obviously will call them more than the average person that might go their whole lives never having to call them, and some of them knew ppl i knew or lived in towns i grew up in and have quirky little "small world" moments with them, now that im in Vancouver im afraid its probably not gonna be like that at all since theres SOO many fricking addicts and overdoses and real violent crimes in this big ass degenerate city compared to the small town/city of the Prairies, that ambulances and paramedics will have a "iDGAF" attitude here
wait what
so you have throat problems and you have anxiety?
i also get throat pains/ difficulty breathing when i'm having anxiety attacks. that's common if you have it really bad
>(You) will take ze medz
Man, this thread is still up.
I have never had lower respect for the average DnD player than in this moment.
nobody mentioned DnD until you did
It's somewhat true. While old /tg/ was mostly built on 3.5 and 40k with a sprinkling of Shadowrun, Call of cthulhu, WoD, Savage worlds and Gurps. A lot of the new school is mostly born from 5th ed D&D which is mostly a fake version of tabletop gaming marketed towards the normies.
These.... I don't know what to call them. Tagalongs? They pretty much looked up 1dGanker and r/dndgreentext after seeing tabletop gaming on big bang theory and went here to ape the old culture without any actual tabletop knowledge or experience.
When you see a shitty thread here like made up dnd greentext, heroforge and filename threads polluting the board, its a fair bet that its a 5E player shitting the place up.
>old /tg/ was mostly built on 3.5 and 40k with a sprinkling of Shadowrun, Call of cthulhu, WoD, Savage worlds and Gurps.
And Quests. Quests made anywhere between 10% and 90% of the board depending on who you ask.
I was mostly talking about the material base. Even the quests are usually built on 3.5 or 40k foundations.
I take Buspar 3 times daily and it's made my life 1000 times better.
I take two everyday and it has nothing to do with games.
I take energy drinks. Has the same effect for me of loosening me up a bit.
That's objectively not true and you're possibly only perceiving a placebo effect. Caffeine makes anxiety worse.
>loosening me up a bit
yeah, artificial sweeteners tend to do that for most people
Genuine question.
Why is anxiety such a thing today? Like why is it everyone has become so fricking weak and useless mentally?
Its not even real events causing it either; it seems that the idea of people having to talk to others triggers some kind of mental breakdown in people these days. Also why the frick do you need medication to interact with your friends?
Jesus Christ; I understand now why my parents accept that death is inevitable for them and probably a good thing. I'm also beginning to see and agree with the "enemies of the west" more and more.
I've been socially moronic for pretty much my whole life, so over the years I've come to accept the fact that I naturally piss people off just by opening my mouth. It probably isn't healthy to go into every conversation expecting to frick it up, but it works for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia