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Re:Medications that change who we are by infradig on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:23AM (#22019724)
Can I ask what medication it was?
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Re:Medications that change who we are by jdietrich on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:59AM (#22019874)
I'll wager it was a beta blocker.

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

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Re:Medications that change who we are by sugarkjube on Saturday January 11, 2020 @11:35AM (#22020723)
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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