Psychoactive arse-kicking

[ciphergoth]

Cosmetic psychopharmacology. You can get drugs to help stem delusions, to lift depression and combat anxiety as well as rescuing you from a variety of other potentially destructive mental states.

What I really wish for is a pill that helps you pull your finger out. A chemical "round tuit" from Ciba-Geigy. It would transform my life.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

what would it be called? Procrastoff? Ant-ennui? Ditherex?

[stevenothing.livejournal.com]

lethargaway

[adjectivegail]

LOL i particularly liked Ditherex...

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Coffee

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Don't think I haven't tried that technique every way I can...

[xenarachne.livejournal.com]

Forget Beta-blockers....we need Distraction Blockers!

Blinkers, ear plugs, flotation tanks...all kinda make it difficult to type.

Maybe we all have too many means of communication nowadays which add to the ongoing noisesome distraction?

[jhg.livejournal.com]

Chuckle...


J

Exercise?

[pavlos.livejournal.com]

I find that sunshine and mild exercise help. Also being given more time, paradoxically, helps because you don't feel everything is too late anyhow. Friends can help, but they need to do it very carefully to avoid the latter problem.

Coffee has a mixed effect as it gives you lots of energy while at the same time making your brain very noisy and unable to focus. Rest does help, as does making an accurate symbolic representation, outside your brain, of everything you should do.

Pavlos

[mhw.livejournal.com]

That's one of the things I'm trying to sort out right now. My GP thinks that anxiety is a big influence on my "Oh god I can't do it" feelings, so he's started me on slow-release Stelazine, 2mg twice a day. I do seem already to be a little more mellow, though I can't say I'm more able to feel motivated yet, but it's very early days.

Shrink appointment at the end of the month; I'm going to ask if I can be referred to a cognitive therapist.