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Last night I got home from work and was going to go to the gym but I was really dragging. I decided to try my son's Pre-workout drink mixand was that a big mistake. When I got home from the gym I was sitting on the couch watching tv and started to feel like my head was going to blow off. My heart started to race like crazy and my eyes where hurting and I started to get a bad headache. Then the panic started, just like a light switch, it turned on. I read the ingredients on the drink mix and it was loaded with caffeine, ginseng and other stuff I shouldn't have. I still feel bad today! How do people take that stuff?

John, I posted here, but somehow it didn't stay.

When i am feeling tired and fatigued I do not think as well as when I am rested. It sounds like you just weren't thinking about what you were doing and then it was done. I doubt you will make the same mistake again. (-try'in to help you re-frame this) You are not dumb. Forgive yourself ..you made a mistake ...and you will learn from it.

What you want to remember is that you went to the gym. The gym is a refuge for me too. Have almost a mini gym at home. Once you get going, the good chems in your brain do the rest.

Hooray for exercise.