I'm giving up coffee

@Samek I was probably drinking two pots a day when I was a retail manager, and all of a sudden it just HIT me...and I started having anxiety attacks, also. For a year or two, I had to be careful not to take cold medicine with certain ingredients, and couldn't eat chocolate, or drink caffeinated beverages, or even eat things containing sugar.

THEN I learned how to stop and calm myself when the attacks first began. If you can cool your jets within the first minute, you can actually make the attack stop.

@4meAndyou got good at breathing over the years but had a 5 day anxiety attack earlier in the month and it was intense. Had no idea why until I was able to self reflect. A lot of stress in a short amount of time and I must have overdone it with caff/nic on top of it all. On HBP meds now, month free from caff. Still haven't kicked the nic or sugar... One thing at a time.

@Samek I wish you the best of luck in your battle. I never had it that badly, and usually an hour or so lying down with a cold wet washcloth over my eyes made me feel lots better quickly.

@PerfectionOfTheHeart so very true. It's been a journey for myself. A scary one. :/

@Samek Right there with ya. Anxiety is a tricky beast that doesn’t know how to let go, no matter how much closure and distance there is from it. That’s why you have to focus on one breath at a time on your journey. One breath, one step, no matter how hard they can be to take…take them. Over time your perseverance will become a fiercer force than the anxiety within that unforgivingly tries to rewrite the narrative.

@Azlotto Wow...are you brave or what? 🤣