When you get prescribed the correct anti anxiety meds, it’s like a cheat code that stops anxiety from having an impact, and still allows you to feel an act normally. I took escitalopram(lexapro), and it changed everything. Before: just wanted to be left alone anxiety was so bad Now: I am the foot steps dumb people fear when they dare tread upon ground they don’t belong on. I am darkwing duck.

this dog has Big Ed vibes lol

I stopped drinking caffeine earlier this year.

My anxiety melted away. Suddenly I wasn’t avoiding life any more. I just got my shit done, or at least worked consistently on it without hesitation.

Then I got in a car accident (very minor; nobody hurt) for the first time in 25 years of driving.

So I started drinking caffeine again. I realized that maybe me at my best is a little anxious. That relaxed and happy isn’t my best self.

I remember having to get up early once and making myself a big mug of coffee… I sat on the sofa, put the TV on, drank some of my coffee… then fell asleep with it cradled in my lap.

It really doesn’t help as much as a shower does.