How To Talk To Any Girls You Want (without feeling anxious)
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the link between low inhibition and anxiety and how to deal with it. Low inhibition is a common issue amongst introverts and people with social anxiety disorders. In this episode we discuss ways to work with your inhibitory neurotransmitter, GABA, to reduce your risk of anxiety and depression.
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Hey, welcome back guys to a new channel. We're going to be getting back into the swing of things
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with looks maxing. So today's topic is going to be about low inhibition because I've seen a lot
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of people talk about this on the internet, but not everyone knows exactly what it means. And
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it's been miscategorized a lot of the times. So what exactly is inhibition? Well, it's essentially
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just a form of impulse control and your brain's brake mechanism preventing you from doing things.
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Now this could limit your actions, your speech, and your social expressions,
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various things of this nature. So while impulse control is generally a good thing,
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you don't want to have too much of it to the point where it's causing you social anxiety
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and missing out on a lot of social opportunities because of your high inhibitions. People with a
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typically higher inhibition are often referred to as introverts or people with social anxiety
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disorders. But for the sake of the video, we're just going to be using the word inhibition. So
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now that we understand what inhibition is, how exactly do we fine tune it, right? Now let's go
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over a few different things we could utilize to temporarily lower our inhibition. Now this is
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not medical advice. I'm not necessarily advising you do these things. This is a purely hypothetical
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video. Starting off with the most widespread drug that's used, alcohol or ethanol, that's going to
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agonize your GABA-A receptors, causing a temporary decrease in inhibition. Now that GABA neurotransmitter
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is going to be something that we commonly refer to back in this video. And essentially what it does
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is it quiets different neurons. Just to touch a little bit on GABA because it's very important,
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we're going to circle back to it in this video a lot. It is essentially your brain's inhibitory
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neurotransmitter. That means it kind of quiets down your neurons. Now this is going to massively
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reduce your inhibition depending on the amount of alcohol that's consumed, which will lead to
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reduce anxiety, but it will also come with slower thinking abilities. Alcohol suppresses another
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neurotransmitter called glutamate, which is your brain's accelerator. It's essentially responsible for
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your judgment, your learning, and your decision-making abilities. Now glutamate is extremely important for
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your brain to fully function, but there are certain times where it will come as a detriment. Alcohol is
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also going to play a role at disrupting your prefrontal cortex, which will reduce your anxiety
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greatly. There are certain other drugs that are commonly prescribed by psychiatrists that also work
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through the GABA pathway, like benzodiapines, but these are a lot more addictive, even though they might
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have less immediate side effects. So I do not recommend you guys opt for something like a
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benzodiapine that's eventually going to make you have dependency issues and going through massive
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withdrawals just to simply be low-inhibit bars. And if you're not familiar with what benzodiapines are,
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that's going to be your Xanax, that's going to be your Klonopin, all very dangerous drugs in a long-term
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fashion. So let's talk about some acute options because I really don't like any long-term solutions that
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work through GABA. Now the closest thing that you could get to alcohol without actually working
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through the GABA receptors is going to be pre-gabalate. If you agree with Klav's message
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to check this one out. Now pre-gabalate is going to bind to different receptors in your brain,
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essentially preventing the release of neurotransmitters and making you lower inhibition.
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Pregabalate is also a lot less cognitively impairing. So you're going to be a lot more
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functional if you're on pre-gabalate rather than alcohol, which is a very sloppy intoxication.
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You're not going to have as many issues with your motor skills on pre-gabalate as you will with
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alcohol. It's not going to be as liver toxic. So there is a lot of benefits to taking pre-gab over
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alcohol. Now pre-gabalate sounds amazing, right? Why wouldn't everyone just be taking it? Well,
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the tolerance accumulates extremely quickly, actually a lot quicker than alcohol. So it's
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not really a sustainable option. Even taking pre-gab more than once a week is going to build
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your tolerance extremely rapidly. And the average normie is quite literally drinking three times a
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week or going out. So pre-gabalate cannot be used every single time, but it is certainly a mechanism
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that could be leveraged to avoid the alcohol consumption. Now let's move into baclofen,
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which is a GABA-B agonist. This is going to sedate you in a very similar manner as alcohol,
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but you're not going to have a lot of the same effects on neurotransmitters. Baclofen is typically
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prescribed for muscle relaxation. So it has a lot of effects on things like your spinal cord
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and your motor skills. So it is going to severely impair your physical abilities, but it also is a huge
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anxiety reducer. So it could be leveraged in a quite positive way. Now, the main concern that
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you're going to run into with agonizing the GABA-B receptors with baclofen or the GABA-A with
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alcohol is you're indirectly inhibiting dopamine release with baclofen. So in a social context,
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you're not going to be having as much fun. Maybe you're a little less excited and this could
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potentially not make you the most pleasant and make you in a suboptimal state. But from a toxicity
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standpoint, this is a lot better than alcohol. Moving on to a new class of drugs, we're going
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to be going over beta-blocking. So propranolol, this is going to block your adrenaline's physical
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anxiety symptoms like the sweating, the nervous hands, and twitching that you commonly experience
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maybe when you're talking to a girl for the first time or going through a traumatic incident. This is
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going to reduce your heart rate and a lot of the social tension that you might run into. There is
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actually no effects on your neurotransmitters, and this is not going to impair you cognitively
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whatsoever. Now the main thing of note with beta blockers is the dosing time. You definitely don't
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want to be taking beta blockers before you train, and half-life is quite long, so you're going to
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have to dose them at the complete other end of the day from when you're commonly training. Taking beta
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blockers is sustainable though, and it is actually healthy if you're someone who deals with a high
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blood pressure. Moving on to another drug, we're going to discuss memantine. Memantine is an NMDA
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receptor blocker, so it works through a completely different pathway at inhibiting neurotransmitters.
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And you might have picked up on a common theme throughout this video that the main goal of
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reducing inhibitions is going to be temporarily reducing your glutamate. So we just discussed a
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lot of different mechanisms to reduce neurotransmitters that might not be favorable for social ability,
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but at the end of the day you don't want to be relying on drugs. Drugs are not the answer long
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term for inhibitions. Something like an exposure therapy is going to be a lot more sustainable.
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Exposure therapy isn't just some random red-pulled cope. There is a lot of literature pointing to its efficacy.
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Hopefully this is the mechanism that you guys opt for, but once again here is a couple
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different hypothetical solutions to inhibition issues.