ADHD

I havent been going to gym or meditating for few months and my anxiety is now the worst it has been for years so there's that.

I’m a genuine believer that meditation and self-reflection should be a part of everyone’s daily routine. Know that it won’t produce a targeted improvement in any one area, though. Meditation is more for general well-being.

I feel you on the muscle cramps and jaw clenching. I hear exercise is great for stress reduction, but I also have a terrible time sticking to it. Stimulants don't help with that. I feel like I only get relief from a hot shower.

I can only speak for myself, but what I do seems to help.

Firstly, while I don't/can't really meditate, I do try to be more mindful of my emotions. In particular if I feel something negative, instead of immediately reacting to it, I try to take a moment to investigate why I'm feeling that way. Often times it ends up being something that someone has unwittingly done to me that has broken some internal rule that I keep, and ultimately my anger won't change anything. That has helped me to chill out enormously.

Something else that seems to be really helping me at the moment is that I'm trying to massively reduce my sugar intake. I'm pretty overweight, and am an absolute fiend for chocolate, so have been going through another of my phases where I'll eat three or four chocolate bars a day if left to my own devices. This makes me snacky, so I want to eat more, leaving me feeling like shit. Cutting out excess sugar altogether removes that urge, and after a few days I become a lot more calm and feel better about myself.

YMMV and I'm not a doctor but personally since I started taking Strattera (spelling?) my anxiety levels have gone way down.

I went from a couple panic attacks per month to zero after the first month and I haven't had one since starting 7 months ago.

My first few weeks with Strattera were pretty hectic but after that and boosting my dosage it's been mostly smooth sailing.

One thing I would recommend though is definitely looking into ways to manage your anxiety in general: square breathing, cutting back on caffeine, and getting exercise helps me a lot. It's basically how I brought my panic attacks from once a week or more to twice a month initially.

Also environment changes can help immensely but that's much harder to take care of.

For bruxism I take 20mg of magnesium (bi)glycinate daily, and that has helped tremendously with my muscle clenching and quality of sleep as well. If you decide to take magnesium make sure it is labeled “glycinate” as other ones can have laxative properties!

I also have GAD and ADHD and have always been prescribed a SNRI that is secondline treatment of ADHD. I am currently on a combo of Straterra and Vyvanse, and when I hit the 5 month period of being on it, my anxiety disappeared overnight. It was miraculous actually.

My psychiatrist believes that people with GAD and ADHD need combo therapy with stimulants, and stimulants side effects will amplify the GAD. That belief has been a tremendous relief for me regarding my symptoms, as I never went through the heightened anxiety so many other ADHD patients seem to talk about when going through stimulant therapy.

I would talk to a psychiatrist who specializes in ADHD, but I had a lot of success dealing with my anxiety on Strattera and Lexapro. Depending on your state, psychedelics may also be a treatment option.

any reason to not just occasionally take Adderall with some benzos for the come down? you certainly don't want to do that everyday, but if you did it like twice a week you would at least have windows of super productivity