Just wondering if others' experience this ...

I am feeling very stressed because of work (please understand, I am sooo incredibly grateful for my job. I was out of work for 2 1/2 years after being laid off, so depressed it was scary, and just eeking by. I started at this firm just 8 months ago. I am Oprah grateful...but I am just so irritated).

Long story short: The project I tried to get a head-start on (6 months ago because I knew it would be an Enormous project and tough to manage - in a VERY short period of time) ended up being dumped in my lap this morning (at the last minute). Exactly what I tried to avoid happening. This is one of my major peeves in the workplace.

To add insult to injury, this is the very thing I used to do in my career that I LOVED (the project itself) before I got sick (diagnosed).

So now, I am super stressed, am having a hard time gathering my thoughts, am grumpy, nervous, cranky, brain feels scrambled, sounds are much louder and totally annoying me (people's voices), my sense of smell is heightened etc). I had to take a half a Xanax because I was afraid I would yell at someone or act inappropriate (for instance, try to be witty but come off like a total B)

And all my colleague little quirks are bugging me, too!

I want to just throw a tantrum (although I never would), and yell at everyone for being so loud and annoying and also yell at the people that dumped this on me at the last minute (I want to say something like, "I tried to get this going 6 months ago. You guys ignored it. Now, we are down to 2 weeks to complete the task (no excuses, no leeway, days count), and I have to do it all myself. By myself. I am totally stressed out and miserable. WTH?!"

Does this happen to you when you are stressed?