Do you pace back and forth?

[fr0d0]

Pacing is what people naturally do when trying to think. Telephone technical staff are encouraged to pace around when taking calls as an aid to clarity of thinking. They're provided with wireless headsets to facilitate this.

I was on mood stabilisers very briefly many years ago, and know the effect. Fucking drugs.

BTW Ev there was an awesome interview with Adam Ant on BBC R4 this week on the subject of mental health you might like: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zsds4

This is funny:

[Edwardo Piet]

I was on mood stabilisers very briefly many years ago, and know the effect. Fucking drugs.

I have been since early 2007 now, when I was 18, I'm 22 now.

It's Lithium that I'm on and I'm liking the idea of changing my mood stabilizer because I don't like the idea of being on a toxic drug, which Lithium is.

I'd like to come off it completely gradually, but I've tried that before and I relapsed.

[Minimalist]

I mainly sit on my ass at this fucking computer.

[Skipper]

My pacing never used to bother me. But now it's becoming excessive.

Wearing holes in carpets?

[everythingafter]

I don't pace really. I deal with my stress/anxieties the old fashioned subconscious way: by grinding my teeth to smithereens at night. Apparently I have been doing it for years and didn't know it because my mouth never hurts or anything ... or I'm so used to it I don't notice. I know that it hasn't gotten better because I stayed over with someone one night (live by myself) and she said the grinding kept her up. So I got a mouth guard soon after, and in two days, had broken part of it on the side. They say the more you use them, the more the grinding subsides. Luckily, the general bottom part of the guard doesn't have any holes yet so I'm still able to use it.

[Violet]

I used to pace. Now I sit on my ass in front of my computer, playing video games and chatting on this forum. My, how times change... when you lose your youth: it's gone. Completely.

So... try not to hurry your ending of pacing. You're too introverted as it is: go out and do something with all of that energy. I warn you: you'll become as fat as me if you don't.

And the next person that calls me anorexic is going to be cussed out in beautifully profane russian. And i don't mean to suggest that gently.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I don't pace.


I prefer to be supine as much as possible,or seated at the very least..

When I do my Basil I never pace,there's no need.. I am fully aware of the location of every sharp (and blunt ) instrument I own. There is always at least one nearby.

[Dotard]

Do you pace back and forth?

When I am on the phone. I don't know why but when I'm on the phone I cannot sit/stand still. I pace crazily.

Sitting still with music on is hard to do. If I fell like busting a move, I do it. I can't dance, I have no rhythm and I don't care. I don't care if others are around or not.
Now I don't go all
"FootLoose"
(unless the situation calls for it )

but usually more of a "Roxbury"
"Roxbury"

My work entails a lot of physical activity. Takes the place of the pacing I would do.
When not at work I'm a yardworkaholic. Difficult for me to break away from moving.

I get home or evening comes and I smoke a joint, or two, and my hyper-activity doesn't seem to be a problem any longer.

I advocate self medication with large doses of THC. Fuck that toxic shit.

[reverendjeremiah]

I pace back and forth when I'm bored, anxious or excited. I get restless very easily and it's also a side-effect of my medication.

I pace up and down a lot to music too, I can't sit still when music is on, and since I can't dance, I pace.

I love music, but I'm getting sick of my pacing, it pisses me off.

Do you pace back and forth?

Any ideas how to stop doing it?

I do it as well. I pace when I am talking on the phone, when I am playing my bass guitar, or when I am nervous...or maybe it is because of that entire pot of coffee I just drank?

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I cant think of any "cures" for it. Perhaps sit down and shake a leg instead of pace? That way you still get the movement without going all over the place?

What is wrong with pacing anyways? My wife gives me a hard time about it, but she can get the fuck over it or no more hallway sex for her!

[OnlyNatural]

I don't really pace, but I have other restless, anxious behaviours, like bouncing my leg when sitting, and chewing the crap out of one of my fingers (like all around the fingernail until it's become deformed, been doing that for about 5 years pretty much unconsciously). Often, instead of taking the subway home from university, I'll walk for two hours instead because I feel the need to keep moving. When I sleep I'm constantly tossing back and forth, it's impossible to just lie still.

I've been on lots of psych medication in the past (still on one SSRI and one benzo these days), so I know about annoying side-effects. The worst were anti-psychotics, I think, made me feel like a 10-ton zombie and I gained weight like crazy. It also makes you lactate