(April 12, 2016 at 10:30 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(April 12, 2016 at 3:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: 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.
I could never quit drinking. It's the only thing that lets me feel sane.
For me it's the opposite. When I drink I am outside of myself, a rambling personality, and prone to ignoring my saner side.
But I'm not a normal drinker. I lose myself under the influence, becoming a person I don't like. My mileage definitely varies.