Anxiety

Griff · 07-05-2015, 07:08 AM

My anxiety got loose this week. I have been doing very well with it but I had a couple slow days at work and my routines were disrupted. It kind of peaked out last night. I went to a 4th of July party at my sister's in a not great mood and stayed through the irritating loud and bright. I think I covered it up pretty well, yay for darkness, but what a fucking pussy I am.

Clodfobble · 07-05-2015, 07:43 AM

Sorry, Griff. Here's to another 364 days before we have to deal with it again.

sexobon · 07-05-2015, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Sorry, Griff. Here's to another 364 days before we have to deal with it again.

Jade Helm is coming for YOU.

Griff · 07-05-2015, 10:48 AM

Oh noes!

xoxoxoBruce · 07-05-2015, 07:47 AM

Good for you, recognizing and coping, without disrupting your or the family's plans... I'm presuming without Scotch.
Puts you leaps and bounds ahead of some of us.

Griff · 07-05-2015, 08:38 AM

Thanks guys. Still a sober pussy. Dark humor moment of the night, I decided I'd best do some square breathing which I'm always teaching kids to do but the air was full of smoke so yeah that was ineffective.

Undertoad · 07-05-2015, 12:16 PM

I'm 80% sure that my current intestinal cramps, into the third day, are just my anxiety relationship with my body, coming out. About 18 months off anti-depressants, and this is one of the things they prevented...

xoxoxoBruce · 07-05-2015, 12:28 PM

Cramps causing anxiety that they may be something lasting which causes more cramps?

Undertoad · 07-05-2015, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Cramps causing anxiety that they may be something lasting which causes more cramps?

This particular circular condition is what causes panic attacks. So far that hasn't happened.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-05-2015, 05:07 PM

Now that you live near the main line, and have become a globe hopping electronical whiz, with a hot girlfriend, you can handle it.

Griff · 07-05-2015, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

This particular circular condition is what causes panic attacks. So far that hasn't happened.

My gut was a wreck this week as well. I'm cleaning up my diet for a little bit hopefully we both get back on track.

glatt · 07-06-2015, 07:43 AM

Last week was pretty stressful for me too, and manifest itself with a fairly big cold sore outbreak. The virus just hangs out waiting for some body stress and then erupts to the surface. I felt constant tingling in my chin as the virus was moving around along my nerves. I don't normally feel that.

Why stressed?

My wife got a skin cancer diagnosis last week. The best kind of cancer to have. Something like a 99% recovery rate after one somewhat minor surgery. But I've got this very high deductible HSA health insurance plan because I was trying to save some cash on premiums, and this will sting us financially. There were concerns about the surgeon not appearing in the network, and lots of calls to the various doctors, and the insurance co., and meetings with my employer's benefits coordinator.

And I've got this elderly cousin I'm now responsible for, and I've been trying to get services in place for him, and it's excruciatingly slow. Calls with in-home service provider, social worker, county nurse, deep cleaning company, and lawyer. And he calls every day complaining about some problem I need to resolve for him. It was his razor that put me over the top, I think. I bought him a new one on Amazon and 2-day shipped it to him for Friday delivery. He's going to be a significant chore in my life for the next 5-10 years.

And work was unusually busy last week leading up to the holiday weekend. Everybody trying to shoehorn everything in before going away.

But I had a nice relaxing weekend (other than all the driving) with my family at the lake. It was good, and I'm good now. Except for this lingering cold sore that will stick around for a week. I hate having a cold sore at work. I feel like everyone is looking at it. And they are. Oh well.

classicman · 07-05-2015, 01:08 PM

Griffster - I can think of many words to describe you - NEVER did pussy cross my mind.

Sundae · 07-05-2015, 01:21 PM

I had a pussy (cat).
I have a pussy (vagina).
I am a pussy in that I need a whole bloody support team these days just to go on public transport.

Griff, sir, you am not a pussy in any of my definitions.

If you are hairy and smell of fish I will simply assume you're Scandinavian.

sexobon · 07-05-2015, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

... but what a fucking pussy I am.

You are what you eat.

Way to go!

07-05-2015, 07:08 AM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Anxiety My anxiety got loose this week. I have been doing very well with it but I had a couple slow days at work and my routines were disrupted. It kind of peaked out last night. I went to a 4th of July party at my sister's in a not great mood and stayed through the irritating loud and bright. I think I covered it up pretty well, yay for darkness, but what a fucking pussy I am. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-05-2015, 07:43 AM	#2
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Sorry, Griff. Here's to another 364 days before we have to deal with it again. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

07-05-2015, 10:48 AM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Oh noes! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-05-2015, 07:47 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Good for you, recognizing and coping, without disrupting your or the family's plans... I'm presuming without Scotch. Puts you leaps and bounds ahead of some of us. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-05-2015, 08:38 AM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Thanks guys. Still a sober pussy. Dark humor moment of the night, I decided I'd best do some square breathing which I'm always teaching kids to do but the air was full of smoke so yeah that was ineffective. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-05-2015, 12:16 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I'm 80% sure that my current intestinal cramps, into the third day, are just my anxiety relationship with my body, coming out. About 18 months off anti-depressants, and this is one of the things they prevented...

07-05-2015, 12:28 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Cramps causing anxiety that they may be something lasting which causes more cramps? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-05-2015, 05:07 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Now that you live near the main line, and have become a globe hopping electronical whiz, with a hot girlfriend, you can handle it. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-06-2015, 07:43 AM	#12
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Last week was pretty stressful for me too, and manifest itself with a fairly big cold sore outbreak. The virus just hangs out waiting for some body stress and then erupts to the surface. I felt constant tingling in my chin as the virus was moving around along my nerves. I don't normally feel that. Why stressed? My wife got a skin cancer diagnosis last week. The best kind of cancer to have. Something like a 99% recovery rate after one somewhat minor surgery. But I've got this very high deductible HSA health insurance plan because I was trying to save some cash on premiums, and this will sting us financially. There were concerns about the surgeon not appearing in the network, and lots of calls to the various doctors, and the insurance co., and meetings with my employer's benefits coordinator. And I've got this elderly cousin I'm now responsible for, and I've been trying to get services in place for him, and it's excruciatingly slow. Calls with in-home service provider, social worker, county nurse, deep cleaning company, and lawyer. And he calls every day complaining about some problem I need to resolve for him. It was his razor that put me over the top, I think. I bought him a new one on Amazon and 2-day shipped it to him for Friday delivery. He's going to be a significant chore in my life for the next 5-10 years. And work was unusually busy last week leading up to the holiday weekend. Everybody trying to shoehorn everything in before going away. But I had a nice relaxing weekend (other than all the driving) with my family at the lake. It was good, and I'm good now. Except for this lingering cold sore that will stick around for a week. I hate having a cold sore at work. I feel like everyone is looking at it. And they are. Oh well.

07-05-2015, 01:08 PM	#13
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Griffster - I can think of many words to describe you - NEVER did pussy cross my mind. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

07-05-2015, 01:21 PM	#14
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I had a pussy (cat). I have a pussy (vagina). I am a pussy in that I need a whole bloody support team these days just to go on public transport. Griff, sir, you am not a pussy in any of my definitions. If you are hairy and smell of fish I will simply assume you're Scandinavian. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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