When I was in high school, I joined speech and debate. I was terrible, but I stayed for all 4 years. By the time I hit college, I could speak publicly with ease, putting me ahead quite a bit. Now, I’m just an obnoxious pain in the ass so I kind of overcorrected.
Moving to a walkable city. Turns out I just hate cars and I hated the fact that I had to drive to have any sort of social gathering.
Not being social.
I realized in my 40’s that my parents were wrong. You don’t actually have to be social butterfly to be happy.
I’m missing the need for social interaction. World didn’t end. I’m completely happy without it and there are plenty of jobs that don’t extensively need it.
So liberating. No amount of therapy really helped on the inside. It was all just pretending.
Propranolol
Because it takes the edge off anxiety? I haven’t even been on it all that long and I entirely forgot it did this. Holy crap, what was I even like before! I remember being in constant pain from the migraines. More pain than I even noticed I was in, weirdly enough. Is it helping your migraines? My head still feels like Swiss cheese, or something. But more brain fog and heavy than pain, now.
mine kicked in within the first hour, and it was like a cloud was lifted! it doesn’t help me with any migraines personally, but it’s like magic for my anxiety. you can pry it from my cold dead hands. i also got brain fog when i increased my dose and i had to lower it back down — maybe you’re on too high of a dose?
