[Sabrina]

I hardly slept at all. My "cramps" are really saying hello ... yet I have done quite a bit of work, not backlog but a lot of my current stuff, I have run around after my son who is on school holiday. I have been slow cooking a large pot of vegetable soup. I raked the garden beds because the big dogs tried to wreck it. I cleaned and tidied the tupperware cupboard and then as if I had nothing to do I did the same to the pots and pans cupboard. Oh - and the faucets - cleaned those when they were already clean. And I did none of this with my almost constant underlying feeling of anxiety.

I can never understand myself. I'll be perfectly fine but so lethargic and get nothing done. Then when I am tired and sore I get a whole lot more done. Yet I didn't go to gym, or bother with make-up.
Maybe it is because I am irritable.
Hmmm - just rambling.

[wi_fighter]

I'll never understand the hows and whys of my disorder either.

Maybe we shouldn't worry about it and just be satisfied when we manage to do something even slightly above and beyond our usual level.

[dottie]

Same situation with me. You are not alone. I can't understand it. I am up, down, up, down. And when you're down you're really down. Go figure.

[Lexicon78]

I know I seem to get irritable for no reason at all...more so lately it seems. The littlest things set me off and I get all anxious about the whys and hows.

Oh well, at least I'm surviving.

[Myzen]

Hi Sabrina,

One of the things we get in an anxiety state is what I have called 'whole body pain'. It might be like a person coming off a drug, except that we haven't taken any drug in the first place.

Whilst in this state I once took some strong (prescribed) pain killers and the effect was pretty quick. I felt much better.

The problem with this approach is that you want more, and that would lead to addiction. My best strategy has been to trick my mind onto thinking about something else, to get the focus off the pain.

I believe that the anxiety is centred in the mind, and that's where we need to do the work. This is only my own opinion/experience of course.

One example is in the treatment of tinnitus (noises in the head with a physical cause). I have that pretty bad, and over a period of two years I trained myself to stop listening to it. Now I don't hear it at all, unless I remind myself to do that. If we could just train the mind to stop feeling the anxiety we could put the drug companies out of business!!

Hope it eases for you.

Good thoughts, M

[Sabrina]

Thanks everyone. After that burst of energy everything ground to a complete halt the rest of the week. I have done very little more and achieved next to nothing.

Oh wait, I did achieve something - I swept the worry under the carpet to deal with another time.

[jmo531]

Ya know, I get the same way...at times. I have been exhausted this past week yet everyday I am running around taking care of household things and such until nearly 9 pm every evening. Its almost like a "second wind".