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		infradig on Jan 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Medications that change who we are Can I ask what medication it was?

jdietrich on Jan 11, 2020 [–]

I'll wager it was a beta blocker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blocker#Anxiety

sugarkjube on Jan 11, 2020 | [–]

Spot on, indeed. However, I wasn't suffering from anxiety, and so the effect was a unexpected. Actually, stress indeed disappeared, but for me stress was never an issue. I used to draw a lot of energy out of my (positive) stress.

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