(April 12, 2016 at 3:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(April 12, 2016 at 3:24 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Anxious.
Not in an "oh my god where is my ativan" kind of way but more in a healthy response to stress kind of way.
I consider that to be a vast improvement.
I don't know that I understand anxiety like you do; I've only experienced it in quitting drinking, which is one effect of addiction withdrawal and not a chronic thing, which I think is more the case with you? So any words I write here on out are necessarily of limited use --
-- but I found that working with my hands, cleaning house, woodwork, that sort of thing, get me Zen, outside my own head where I'm not thinking about what Person X thinks of my idea Y.
You're absolutely right - keeping busy definitely helps. The challenge of course is when the condition is sufficiently bad that the effort required to break out of the trap is more than one can muster. I don't doubt there's an analog to the experience of addiction.
Twice last year I went to the ER because I thought I was having a heart attack or a second pulmonary embolism, and a third time when I knew exactly what it was. I don't know what anyone else's experience is like and I would be loathe to compare in any case. We all have our limits and there's no point in keeping score, you know?