For me it's the other way around. I just had a cold last week and I felt soooo much better mentally. It's gone now and the anxiety is back on super high today. I'm almost wishing for my cold back!

Maybe it's because I don't have any energy left when I'm ill. Or having real physical things to focus on - symptoms that I know the cause of.

But maybe I'm just weird. I also tend to feel worse when I've had a good night's sleep. Like when I'm really tired, I'm just surviving, making it through the day, but when I've had more sleep, that's when the anxiety gets worse.

Right now I also feel like the best thing to do for my anxiety is to sit or lie down and watch some Netflix, when my instinct is telling me to keep moving, to get this nervous energy out, and my body also feels like I need to DO something to get it out, not just lie down.