Thanks for the support! I feel lucky to have found such a wonderful community of people. I've never been a part of an online community before and this seems to be an exemplary one.

My mistake this morning was to spend too much time dwelling on my anxious/depressed thoughts. I journal a lot, write cognitive disputations, and read lots of books about depression, positive psychology, and cognitive therapy. It would have served me well this morning to spend less time on this kind of stuff and more time out and about, solving my problems. Huge, hairy problems that snarl in the yard tend to shrink to small yipping problems when you walk out of the door and look them in the eye.

Does anyone have suggestions for how they deal with moments of overwhelming anxiety like I had this morning? How do you get over the fear and the impulse to hole away instead of facing your problems?