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demonboidies · 5 years

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𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓵𝔂 - 𝓽𝓸 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀

pt. 3

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●WARNING: mention of several mental illnesses (eating disorders, depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders, OCD, alcohol abuse, and more) I do not go into deep detail of each, more so simply mentioning the names, but if you are easily triggered please don't read. the reason I am mentioning these illnesses is because the boys(in my ff) suffer from several of them. all the mental illnesses mentioned in this chapter and their corresponding member are not based on true facts or actual evidence. this is fictional.●

"ah, well i graduated from college a while ago. majored in world language, i had this crazy dream of being a translator. but i obviously don't do that, although i've recently applied to several companies, i haven't heard from any." you ended with a neutral smile, making eye contact with the oldest who was nodding in understanding. "but i asked Jungkook which classes he took, since he still is a youngling."

you chuckle at your wording, along with the others. Hoseok even ruffling the man's hair teasingly.

"uhm, i do programming, computer stuff...yeah, it's nothing interesting like the arts b-but it's what i d-do best." a weak smile was on his lips and you chuckle softly.

"no, that sounds cute. you seem to be like a tech nerd, please take no offense. i mean to compliment you." you said, saving your mistake last second. even if they were younger than you, the level of respect and professionalism still had to be present between all of you.

red was painted across jungkook's face...he was cute to you? taehyung and jimin clenched the utensils on their hands, annoyed with how jungkook unknowingly one upped them. yoongi and hoseok sent glares to jungkook. namjoon and jin simply smiled, although they were fuming internally.

"oh, thank you..."

you nodded, biting into the food present in front of you. the taste was extravagant, even if it was a simple dish.

"my gosh, who made this? it is delicious." you moaned out, wiping your mouth. "this is so good, and home made?"

"that would be me, darling. and of course, home made. i like being able to overlook the food the boys eat, make sure they get their nutrients and stuff. i try to limit the amount of time they eat out,but sometimes i can't control it. especially if i'm in another country." you nodded impressed with the subtle fact he dropped, whether he did it on purpose or not.

"what do you guys do? i'm intrigued now with your professions." you said, resting your heaad on your hand.

"well, i graduated already...but i run my own dance studio. you should stop by sometime! we've won a couple awards, i'm very proud of my students!" hoseok smiles wide, and you could easily tell how much dance meant to him.

"i'm taking online classes for psychology. going to college is such a hassle, online is so much easier." namjoon says with a heavy sigh which you jokingly cheers to. making the males laugh at your humor.

"we, my friend, are on the same page!" you said and he laughed, making you smile widely.

"i produce music. i post my works on soundcloud...i promise i'm not like every other soundcloud rapper. i actually care about what i make, rather than the views it'll give me. i also have interest in photography, but tae is much better than me." yoongi was quiet and fidgeting when he saw the gaze of you on him. but at his last statement, you pouted a bit.

"i'm sure you two have your own styles and qualities in your work. also i've never met a producer before, i look forward to listening to your work as your career prgresses." you smiled kindly at him and he ducked his down to hide his blush. you chuckle before moving your gaze to the eldest at the table.

"oh, my turn. about time~" the boys scoffed and his attitude when you chuckled, at ease in his presence. "i mainly stay at home and do work in my office, but when push comes to shove i do have to leave the country. i'm heir to my father's company, so i have to take responsibility sometimes...and you must be wondering. so i'll answer the question now. the reason why i'm in this wheelchair is because i was in a bad accident when i was young." he nodded solemnly, although he was smiling weakly. there was a silence as you took the words in. "thank God my face was spared though."

he cupped his cheek, initiating a innocent look as everyone broke into a smile, looking over to the man with a wonder.

how could someone be so positive after such a horrific event? which was what you were thinking.

but the rest of the boys simply sighed in relief at their hyung. he was always a good liar. and they were lucky you were completely politely innocent and oblivious to their hyung's lie. he had lied more than once to you already, cheeky person he was

"yes, your face was surely spared." you said joining in with the joke.

the rest of the dinner consisted of you bonding over little things. your love for all kinds of games (including pranks) was shared with jungkook, love for animal life with namjoon, sleep with yoongi, culinary with jin, free expression with hoseok, puppies and dogs with taehyung, and family and friends with jimin. the general direction of every conversation was satisfying as it ended with everyone having a smile on their faces.

you had helped clean up, already beginning your new task as a house maid/nurse. "so what would like me to focus on as my first days?" you asked after everything was cleaned. the youngest had to go to their rooms, to begin getting ready for bed since they had school tomorrow. all their classes were in the morning which was fortunate for you since you would be driving them there from now on...and it didn't seem like fun to constantly drive back to the house and then to the university.

namjoon, who was standing in front of you, moved to the study table in the living room, and took a Manila folders into his hands. it seemed like a thick stack of papers and as you looked closer, there were a total of 7.

"no formal work, but all 7 of us saw it appropriate to give you an introduction to our needs. what exactly is wrong with us, y'know? we trust you're experience enough for this so we are confident you'll do just fine."

you took the stack of papers and thanked him. you walked through the house to find your room, which hoseok had shown you right after dinner was finished, and you still marveled at the sight.

it was a grand gray and white minimalistic bedroom with a huge bed in the center. there was also a large ledge with a window that you could sit on to see the night sky. you maneuvered your way over to the study table, turning the lap on to begin "studying" the males.

●𝖐𝖎𝖒 𝖘𝖊𝖔𝖐𝖏𝖎𝖓 / kim seokjin

disabilities/disorders: unable to move bottom half of body, a light case of schizophrenia, requires special attention on getting ready in the morning (may include dressing and showering)

meds: need daily dose for schizophrenia

your brows furrowed. that existed? you knew schizophrenia existed, but meaning a light case would specifically show what? you just shrugged and decided to what the papers were saying.

●𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝖞𝖔𝖔𝖓𝖌𝖎 / min yoongi

disabilities/disorders: OCD, severe depression, social anxiety, prone to panic and anxiety attacks in a crowd of many people, values his personal space-do not enter his personal bubble unless asked

meds: needs dose for OCD, depression

you nodded slowly, understanding the conditions and seeing the familiar names once again. you've had patients like him before, but everyone is different, so you will still be careful.

●𝖏𝖚𝖓𝖌 𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖔𝖐 / jung hoseok

disabilities/disorders: bipolar disorder, ADHD, OCD, fits of anger are dangerous, act hostile in any case and alert one of the other tenants immediately

meds: dose for ADHD & OCD

sudden shortness of his list made you a bit hopeful that taking care of 7 males wouldn't be as hard as it seemed. then again, you willingly signed up for this so you shouldn't be complaining in any way.

●𝖐𝖎𝖒 𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖏𝖔𝖔𝖓 / kim namjoon

disabilities/disorders: depression, OCD, past with alcohol abuse (currently in rehab)

meds: dose for depression and OCD

you pouted slightly, only being able to imagine how hard it must be to recover from alcoholism. and it was saddening to see such an intellectual and kind person such as Namjoon suffer from the mental illness, although that could be said about everyone you had previously read.

●𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝖏𝖎𝖒𝖎𝖓 / park jimin

disabilities/disorders: ARFID, anxiety, prone to panic and anxiety attacks

meds: none

reading the single line you let yourself think of the moment he introduced himself. he was enthusiastic about meeting you, it made you smile at the memory. you were suddenly thankful for getting such a sweet and honey-like expression out of the man.

●𝖐𝖎𝖒 𝖙𝖆𝖊𝖍𝖞𝖚𝖓𝖌 / kim taehyung

disabilities/disorders: OCD, ADD, brief psychotic disorder - periods are short and caused by stress, not dangerous unless triggered by something you do or say

meds: dose for OCD, ADD, and best if given sleep meds during pyschotic episodes

you nodded slowly, understanding and keeping the directions in the back of your mind.

●𝖏𝖊𝖔𝖓 𝖏𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖐𝖔𝖔𝖐 / jeon jungkook

disabilities/disorders: DID, psychotic, anxiety

meds: dose to limit psychotic episodes

the 3 things on the list made your eyebrows furrow. the 3 seemed to make a terrible combination and you began thinking of how calm Jungkook was before. You hoped you wouldn't encounter any bad alters of Jungkook, if he had any bad ones. and, honestly, you were a bit uneducated in the DID field, so you were determined to learn more tonight with the help of the internet.

and the last sheet in each file were filed letters to make sure you caught it :

THEY SHOULD NEVER BE KEPT UNSUPERVISED FOR A LONG TIME. MEDICATION IS IN THE CABINET IN YOUR ROOM WITH PADLOCK TO AVOID OVERDOSES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND COMPLIANCE.

you took the words seriously, seeing the urgency in the message. shutting the folders, you stacked all of them in one pile and moved to freshen up. a shower was needed as you climbed into the steaming bathroom. after washing yourself, you climbed into bed and soon you were falling asleep. you fell asleep thinking about how tomorrow would be your first day of your new job.

a/n- thank you so much for the support of this book!!! I hope you guys stay tuned and enjoy the rest of the journey with yabdere!bts

oooh, curious question

》what other times do you think jin lied to you? hmmm?

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anexperimentallife · 5 years

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I’m always telling y’all there’s no shame in talking about your mental health issues, so here goes.

Anxiety and depression are through the roof right now. There are a lot of factors, but most have to do with the combination of physical pain, CPTSD, bipolar disorder, ADHD, fogginess from a head injury that causes memory and focus issues, and the extra stuff that comes with being autistic in an allistic world. Of course, those things can all exacerbate one another. So if I’m only sporadically responsive at the moment, it’s not you, it’s me.

How am I coping? Well, meditation is good, and stimming to calm down is another thing, of course. Writing is a stim for me, as is thinking things through and explaining things in great detail--hence this post.

Singing is a stim, too, but @thesurestthing is sleeping, and I don’t want to wake her. (I also have a lot of vocal and subvocal stims you probably wouldn’t notice unless you were right next to me in a dead silence.) Certain video games are also a stim.

I have medication for pain (anti-inflammatories, tylenol, tramadol, and if I get really desperate, morphine) and anxiety, but I haven’t taken any yet today, and honestly,

I don’t like overdoing the meds. No judgement against anyone who needs to take massive amounts; I just prefer to not take them unless I absolutely cannot function without them. For instance, I don’t take Tramadol every day, and even when I do, it’s usually only 50Mg, with a few occasions of up to 100 or 150 in a day. I don’t think I’ve touched the morphine in over a month, and even then, I’ve never taken more than 7.5Mg in a single day. I only take xanax if the anxiety isn’t letting me sleep, or if it’s a full-blown attack, and again, even then, I stick with a very low dose. Basically, I take a small fraction of what I’m actually “allowed” to take.

I’ve had doctors tell me to up the dosages, and maybe they’re right--It just makes me nervous to take too much. Remember that when I was abled, I was a fitness fanatic who spent about twelve hours a week in martial arts classes, plus worked out on my own, used to run barefoot on paved roads just to toughen myself up, and my martial arts buddies and I used to do exercises specifically to increase our pain tolerance, so refusing to give in to my body’s demands has always been a point of pride for me. (That’s probably not the healthiest attitude.)

(Writing this out is helping a lot, by the way.)

Another thing that helps me cope is meditation, and reminding myself of the things I’ve already survived. I mean, I’ve been homeless, lost all my possessions multiple times (most recently shortly after I moved to the Philippines), lost two sons, two siblings, and multiple other friends and family members to the grim reaper, and have been beaten (once with a baseball bat) with guns held on me to keep me from fighting back. My lungs were so fucked up when I was born that I wasn’t supposed to live into my teens, but I went on to get perfect scores on Army PT tests. There’s more, but you get the idea. If I could get through that, I can get through this.

I have shelter, food, and sweet, wonderful girlfriend who made curried chicken and fresh bread last night, and live in the (rainy) mountains of a beautiful tropical island. The lack of life-long familiar things causes my autistic brain some stress, and the political situation in my home country of the US weighs on me, but... *shrugs*

I also mourn the loss of friendships due to believing someone who gaslit me pretty intensely before I knew I was autistic (and hence more likely to trust people close to me even when logic said I shouldn’t). But again, the only thing to do is try to accept and come to peace with that.

If you read all of this, thanks for listening! Writing it helped me calm down quite a bit!

(Update: Zoey is awake and making me eat some oatmeal , because I was so stressed I was putting off eating. So then I can take at least naproxyn and tylenol for the pain and swelling in my neck, which should help with the numbness in my arm--the thing with my neck is that bone spurs on my vertebrae irritate and inflame the myelin sheaths around the nerves leading to my arm, which chokes off the nerves and causes anything from pain and tingling to numbness to at times partial paralysis.)

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one-hell-of-a-bi · 5 years

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Oh shit, that's so much worse than my problems. I am SO sorry you're going through that level of help. D: But if you can get somebody to listen at all, a lupus test might be good to at least rule it out. Osteoarthritis was what we suspected at first for me, and honestly I probably have a few arthritic joints on top of the lupus. But I really hope you get decent care and people who actually listen to you soon, because that is such major bullshit.

Thank you, cuz yeah it’s def total bullshit. I am seeing my primary doctor again in a couple weeks and when I do I’m gonna bring up what the pain specialist said and I’ll mention lupus and other tests and see what he says. The longer I’ve seen him the more nice he’s been and I dunno what that says about him but as long as he is listening and helping I don’t really care.

Tbh tho the worst part is the pain management place. I know that the opioid addiction crisis is bad but it seems like the response has been to make disabled people suffer and it’s not actually solving any problems. Like it has been proven that the people who become addicted are overwhelmingly not disabled people who need these meds everyday, but people who are injured and have been prescribed too many of them them short term since all that Big Pharma is interested in is prescribing them as much as possible so they can make money.

But in response what has happened is that they are putting rules in place as to what pain patients can be given and it is hurting us. Because my pain is bad. Depending on what I do my average pain level is usually a 5-6 and can spike as high as 9 if I have to push myself. I need these pain meds to help me sleep and to make it so that I can function day to day.

I also have debilitating anxiety that has symptoms that are almost on par with my pain. When my anxiety is bad enough I will stay up as late as possible until I legit cannot keep my eyes open because if I try to sleep at any other time I have anxiety attacks. I can be irritable for weeks at a time and have severe chest pain that lasts just as long. And when I have anxiety attacks, which more often than not happen when I am out in public, my symptoms are hellish. I start crying and hyperventilating, and my heart rate skyrockets to dangerous levels. When it gets bad enough I start disassociating so severely that I legit cannot process external stimuli at all(when I think back on such attacks I can’t really remember seeing anything properly, everything is either blury or weird colors or both and I can’t even hear) and so I def NEED this medication. I cannot function properly without it. (And to describe how bad my anxiety gets once when I was out of it and couldn’t get anymore I was having an anxiety attack before work but knew I couldn’t call out so I legit fucking took a shot of rum to help me calm down. Without this crucial med I would turn to drinking to relieve my anxiety. And that is not a fucking healthy option.)

And now I have to choose. Either have the medication that keeps my pain at a manageable level or have the medication that manages my debilitating anxiety symptoms. And as a side note I have tried lots of different long term anxiety medications and none of them work and anxiety like the attacks and long term symptoms I have are nearly impossible to “mindfulness” my way out of, believe me I have tried. The meds I am on currently are the only ones that have ever worked. So I legit have no idea what to do. And it’s so fucking unfair.

Like not to shame addicts in any way I know lots of people who have become addicted to lots of different things and it def is a disease and needs to be addressed, but I have NEVER shown any signs of addiction or abuse on my meds. The anxiety med they gave me is addictive, it’s a benzodiazepine, but they have me on a low dose and I only take it when I absolutely need it. I have never sold it or taken more than I need or given it away or anything. I am also on another controlled substance, a medication for my ADHD. And once again, no signs of addiction or abuse, I’ve never sold it or given it away or taken more than I need. The same with my current pain meds which are an opioid.

I have done everything I can to be trustworthy and honest because it is the only way to get the meds I need, and since I have seen so many other people with addictions I am VERY careful because I don’t want to go down that path. It’s part of the reason that despite my current psyche office having an official policy of not prescribing benzodiazepines they made an exception for me. But no, since other people become addicted because of Big Pharma I have to fucking choose between two medications I fucking NEED to function.

Plus the fucking lady at the clinic was already treating me like an addict. I told her that I hadn’t taken my anxiety meds in a long time despite needing them because I was scared since if I take them too close to my opioid it can kill me and she still was acting all suspicious like she didn’t believe me. She even said “If you ever feel the urge to take the meds you need to tell me, we have to be honest with eachother, ok?” And I was like??? Bitch??? I don’t fucking “feel the urge” to take my meds, I need to fucking take them because my brain is sick. You wouldn’t describe me taking my adderall or my emergency inhaler as “feeling the urge to take it” because I fucking need them to exist as a normal human being. When someone is sick and needs medication they are not an addict, they are SICK.

Tbh I think when I go back I’m just gonna tell her that I choose to take the anxiety meds. Cuz yeah the opioids help but I can deal with extreme pain. I cannot deal with my anxiety. But I’m kinda worried that she won’t let me because if it is a bulging disk I’m probably gonna need surgery and if I do I will have to take pain meds to recover and if so she won’t let me have my anxiety meds. I honestly hope it is a disk thing despite none of my other doctors agreeing with her just so I can get this all over with and be allowed to have my anxiety meds again. Cuz this really is such bullshit and I don’t deserve to be treated this way when my only crime is having a disability and mental illnesses.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, this is just really frustrating and I am getting really close to being done with everything. I am tired and angry and feel like crying all of the time and I can’t have a life because of all of the appointments and pain and I just wish one fucking doctor would actually listen and help me or at least assure me that everything is gonna be ok instead of treating me like this. Thanks for the message of positivity, it means a lot

#actualaster #Asked And Answered

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sweatylesbian-blog · 7 years

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p sure my parent has been messing with my dexedrine. a couple months ago i was like wtf guess i better take less propranolol... THEN i noticed when dividing one for a half dose, it was only filled up to the line (where the cap goes opaque). which is a little more than a half dose as it is, i think

THEN doing the same thing today it seemed fuller than usual but tbh it's hard to tell and actually makes me think that maybe they've been skimming off the top like that for a while...

but here's the thing that im chewing on, is that my ua came back with elevated amphetamine levels vs my rx'd dose. ive been taking half doses or less (actually my rx'd dose i rarely take the whole dose) for weeks.

sooo maybe there's smth up and im excreting more than normal of whatever they measure

PRETTY sure i haven't had anything that typically causes false positives

so........ yk.................. could it be they're really going this far? like a couple nights i was taking like 6 propranolol (over a few hrs as each dose failed me) still could barely sleep when ive been sleeping pretty good almost every night ?? and other days ive felt a little more focused than i would expect. but otherwise i mean, afaict im not showing any other signs of hypomania or anything like that, either.

ivw been thinking it's the stress/anxiety making me like that and that's probably the biggest thing buuut....... :// idk

maybe ill stop by the pharm and ask them to check the pills for me?? but they could be just back to normal at this point :/

lmao this actually wouldn't be the first time, before they sent me to inpatient (i was 16 or 17 and i was so eager to go like, wow a stable place that's not here... sígn me up!!) but, i drilled open the lockbox where they kept their meds/drugs and found a container of the beads from the capsules! ohhh boy lmao. then when i was like 'wtf' they claimed they were "testing me" LMAO ???

but also there were days (recently) where they seemed like they had taken some, themselves but i was like "nahh i haven't given them any in a long time" BUT I GUESS THAT DOESN'T MATTER lol

they know it concerns me a lot to potentially have my adhd meds cut off, and they know that between that rx and bipolar it's not a big effort to convince med pros im psychotic, while all they're doing is trying to love and support me ~~~

anywhwre in writing or in public they make these displays but if for example i say smth (that is mostly sarcastic and rhetorical btw) about "i wish we could record this so i can point out that inconsistency" it's just nothing but the statement "i do not consent to be recorded" WELL bitch i don't consent to being spied on and psychologically abused lol but we can't all get what we want, huh

ehh i dont have the time or budget, and i wouldn't have a use for it really, legally or personally. i know well enough for myself, and almost all my medical providers and anyone else they try to call on me will listen to my calm and rational explanations of how it is clearly gaslighting (as clear as gaslighting can be, anyway).

anyway fuck you! what ever justification you think you have, ever think about how id never do smthg like this to you despite the fact that you're responsible for so much of the c-ptsd i developed, & have emotionally abused me my whole life!! no, ive never looked to avenge myself or punish you, just to be truly loved (not the possessive and prideful sense that gets mad when the object of it deviates from how u want) and not mistreated!!

it's hilarious in retrospect that only right this minute am i realizing that when you tell me about how me leaving makes you realize im not the cause of your problems and maybe you "had a talk with yourself" it's basically the same as "im so sorry it won't happen again im working on it ive changed itll be different" and i come back, mostly bc i don't have a better option but also bc yeah when things are good they're great! and i keep thinking "this time it can last and ill only move out when im ready and not bc i can't stand it anymore" but no!! so far that has never been the case!!

#abuse #vent #long post

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lauramalchowblog · 4 years

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Why You Need to Be Taking L-Theanine

People often ask me why I use supplements. After all, our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn’t take them. Our ancient ancestors didn’t take them, nor did our medieval ones or our pre-industrial ones. In fact, nutritional supplementation is one of the most modern inputs you can imagine and, in a perfect world while eating a perfect diet, it should be unnecessary.

But the world is not perfect. We don’t have the same foods available to us that our ancestors ate during the formative years of our evolution, and even if we did, modern farming practices altered mineral levels in the soil. Supplementation can restore some semblance of a “natural” food environment.

Overcoming the stressors of modernity, however, is harder, because it’s not a matter of avoiding the wrong foods and eating the right ones then smoothing out the rough patches with smart supplements. Modern stressors are mostly unavoidable. You have to deal with them. Endure them. And that’s where supplements can really help. Like L-theanine.

What is L-Theanine?

One of my favorite anti-stress supplements is L-theanine. It’s an amino acid found in green and white tea that is structurally similar to glutamine, GABA, and glutamate. It crosses the blood-brain barrier after oral dosing, appearing in the hippocampus and increasing alpha-waves in the brain in less than an hour. It’s clearly “doing stuff” up there. But what are the benefits?

L-Theanine Benefits

The majority of L-theanine’s benefits revolve around our response to stress and anxiety. L-theanine takes the edge of things. More specifically and in addition, L-theanine:

Reduces stress

Lowers anxiety

Improves performance

Smoothes out the effect of caffeine

Improves sleep

Restores immune function

Protects against alcoholic liver damage

L-Theanine as a Stress Reducer

When you meditate, your brain is pumping alpha waves. When you’re having a restful morning with . not much to do but hang around and quietly enjoy your time, you’re alpha wave-dominant. When you’re sitting on the beach listening to the waves lap the shore, a brain scan would reveal a ton of alpha wave activity. And when you take 50 mg of L-theanine, your alpha brainwaves kick in after about an hour.1

L-Theanine as an Anxiety Buster

L-theanine isn’t a benzodiazepine. It won’t brute force your brain into an overwhelming state of supreme chill. For L-theanine to reduce your anxiety, you must actually be anxious. Now, much anxiety is hidden, even to ourselves. We may not know that we’re anxious about something. We may not recognize it. So theanine can really help, as long as there’s something for it to help against.

The downside is that it’s subtler than taking a pharmaceutical anti-anxiety med; you don’t “feel it” as much as taking something like xanax. The upside is that it doesn’t make you drowsy and it’s non-addictive. In fact, most people tolerate theanine so well that researchers have been unable to identify a toxic dose. I’m not suggesting you take an entire bottle, of course. There may be a toxic dose, somewhere, somehow. But subjects have taken 400 mg of L-theanine every day for 8 weeks straight without apparent ill effect.

L-Theanine as a Performance Enhancer

L-theanine is most effective at improving the cognitive performance of people undergoing stress. In studies, this takes the form of artificially stressful environments—loud noises, oppressive rules, that sort of thing. In real life, stress is more unpredictable, and I’d argue that most of us are in stressful environments, even if we’re not consciously aware of it. If you’re lucky enough to live a totally stress-free life, L-theanine may not help your performance.

Here’s what I mean: In subjects doing mental tasks in a stressful environment, taking theanine improved performance, reduced blood pressure, and lowered subjective stress-anxiety levels.2

L-Theanine and Caffeine

If you get the jitters or anxiety from caffeine, have 100-200 mg of L-theanine with it. The combination has been shown to smooth out the effects of caffeine and reduce anxiety while retaining performance. That’s why you feel awake and alert after a cup of tea, but without the jittery feeling that coffee gives you.

L-Theanine: Sleep Enhancer

Much like its relationship with mental performance, the ability of L-theanine to enhance sleep depends on the psychological status of the individual.

If you suffer from anxiety or stress, L-theanine has been shown to improve sleep quality and efficiency and reduce sleep latency and usage of sleeping meds.3

If you’re a kid with ADHD, 400 mg of L-theanine can help with sleep quality.4

If you’re being treated for clinical depression, 250 mg of theanine per day should help reduce sleep disturbances at night.5

If you’re being treated for schizophrenia, 250 mg of daily L-theanine should improve sleep quality.6

But if you have good sleep and good mental health, L-theanine won’t be a big boost to your sleep quality—unless you have significant stress in your life (which most do).

L-Theanine for Immune System Restoration

Back about 20 years ago, I developed an anti-stress supplement meant to combat the overreach and overtraining so many endurance athletes experience. Like me. See, I would get dozens of colds each year. Even though I looked healthy and fit, my immune system was constantly playing catch up. All my running and training didn’t leave any resources for the rest of my physiology. Everything was devoted to recovery.

That supplement, originally called Proloftin but now called Adaptogenic Calm, included L-theanine in addition to four other key anti-stress ingredients. I developed it to fix my own issues, and sure enough, it worked (and as it turned out, many others had the same problem).

As we can see from recent research, it wasn’t just placebo. In one study, endurance athletes supplemented with a cysteine and L-theanine product starting ten days prior to training. They ran immune tests before and after training, and the group who got the cysteine and L-theanine supplement had lower C-reactive protein, lower neutrophil count, and higher lymphocyte levels, indicatives of a lower inflammatory and immune load.7

L-Theanine and Liver Health

We don’t have direct evidence of isolated L-theanine improving a person’s liver’s resistance to things like alcohol, but we do have two other lines of evidence.

First, the animal studies that show supplemental L-theanine protects the liver against alcohol-induced injury and increases liver glutathione content (the antioxidant we use to detoxify ethanol).89

Second, the many observational studies linking green tea consumption to improved liver health and robustness, like the one where green tea consumption seemed to protect against fatty liver.10

L-Theanine: Dosage You Should Take

Oral doses as low as 50 mg have been shown to induce alpha brain waves in healthy humans and doses up to 600 mg per day have been safely tested. Generally, people can tolerate an awful lot of L-theanine without any problems. In fact, you’d have to eat hundreds of grams of pure L-theanine powder to even approach the LD50.

How I Use L-Theanine

The most common way I take L-theanine is by popping a few caps of Adaptogenic Calm, the anti-stress supplement I’ve been making and using for over a decade. You don’t have to take Adaptogenic Calm to get L-theanine, but I’m pretty happy with the synergistic effects of the ingredients.

On the rare occasion I feel acutely stressed out, I’ll take some L-theanine powder under my tongue and let it sit there. L-theanine is water-soluble, so in theory it should absorb sublingually. It certainly feels like it does—I get an almost immediate effect. The taste is subtly sweet. Not something you seek out, not something you avoid either.

You can also get it from green tea, but it will be difficult to hit the 100/200 mg mark found to be most effective in clinical trials through tea alone. Average theanine doses in a cup of green tea range between 25-60 mg. It’s doable, especially if you luck out with a theanine-rich source of tea—you just have to drink a good amount.

That’s it for my take on L-theanine. All in all, it’s a great compound to keep on hand and, perhaps, take on a regular basis. Very little downside, almost all upside.

Have you ever tried L-theanine? Notice anything? How do you use it yourself?

Thanks for reading, everyone.

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References

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18296328/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23107346/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31623400/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22214254/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27396868/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25896423/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19352043/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16141543/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22019691/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24065295/

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Why You Need to Be Taking L-Theanine

What is L-Theanine?

L-Theanine Benefits

The majority of L-theanine’s benefits revolve around our response to stress and anxiety. L-theanine takes the edge of things. More specifically and in addition, L-theanine:

Reduces stress

Lowers anxiety

Improves performance

Smoothes out the effect of caffeine

Improves sleep

Restores immune function

Protects against alcoholic liver damage

L-Theanine as a Stress Reducer

L-Theanine as an Anxiety Buster

L-Theanine as a Performance Enhancer

Here’s what I mean: In subjects doing mental tasks in a stressful environment, taking theanine improved performance, reduced blood pressure, and lowered subjective stress-anxiety levels.2

L-Theanine and Caffeine

L-Theanine: Sleep Enhancer

Much like its relationship with mental performance, the ability of L-theanine to enhance sleep depends on the psychological status of the individual.

If you suffer from anxiety or stress, L-theanine has been shown to improve sleep quality and efficiency and reduce sleep latency and usage of sleeping meds.3

If you’re a kid with ADHD, 400 mg of L-theanine can help with sleep quality.4

If you’re being treated for clinical depression, 250 mg of theanine per day should help reduce sleep disturbances at night.5

If you’re being treated for schizophrenia, 250 mg of daily L-theanine should improve sleep quality.6

But if you have good sleep and good mental health, L-theanine won’t be a big boost to your sleep quality—unless you have significant stress in your life (which most do).

L-Theanine for Immune System Restoration

L-Theanine and Liver Health

We don’t have direct evidence of isolated L-theanine improving a person’s liver’s resistance to things like alcohol, but we do have two other lines of evidence.

First, the animal studies that show supplemental L-theanine protects the liver against alcohol-induced injury and increases liver glutathione content (the antioxidant we use to detoxify ethanol).89

Second, the many observational studies linking green tea consumption to improved liver health and robustness, like the one where green tea consumption seemed to protect against fatty liver.10

L-Theanine: Dosage You Should Take

How I Use L-Theanine

That’s it for my take on L-theanine. All in all, it’s a great compound to keep on hand and, perhaps, take on a regular basis. Very little downside, almost all upside.

Have you ever tried L-theanine? Notice anything? How do you use it yourself?

Thanks for reading, everyone.

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References

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18296328/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23107346/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31623400/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22214254/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27396868/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25896423/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19352043/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16141543/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22019691/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24065295/

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