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Out Of Control Anxiety

Plastic
over 3 years ago

I'm suffering from extreme anxiety right now - it's the worst I've ever had - by miles.      

It a lack of a clear way forward - everything is chaos.   I can't see a pattern so I can't work out a strategy.

I'm bothered by the whole Corona-thing - this house-arrest/lockdown (Sweden didn't do it and their death-rate is lower) so it's a deep distrust of the government and their malicious intentions towards the people and the economy and jobs.

It's also caused by every shop or service suddenly thinking they have the right to nanny me and control whether I can walk around their shop the wrong way.

I'm annoyed by the way the general public are reacting to the bogeyman - ratting out their neighbours for not obeying some spurious 'rules'.

I'm frustrated that there's nowhere to go - all the museums or places to visit are closed.

I'm frustrated with not even being able to go to the local cafe for lunch.

I'm frustrated by not being able to meet with friends.

To top it all, I've got some building work going on here and there's a crunch point that could drastically complicate the work - with no clear/cheap solution.

I'm waking up in the night, every night, all night - I'm getting no more than 2 hours sleep at a time and then I'm 100% wide awake again with all sorts of unwanted thoughts buzzing in my mind.      I can feel my tight chest and I'm sure my blood pressure is getting some record scores.    My dreams are becoming very dark and quite horrible.      Video nasties.     I'm stunned at just how unpleasant my subconscious can be.    My dreams are traumatising me.

I'm waking up too hot or too cold or just uncomfortable and I can't get back to sleep.

Obviously, this is not healthy but I don't know what to do - none of these are irrational things so it's not like seeing the doctor will help - a load of meds won't solve anything.     It's knowing that I can't actually do anything about any of it.      I guess that powerless feeling isn't helping.    I just can't stop my brain massively over-processing a lack of data.

How is everyone else coping? 

Does anyone have any suggestions to reduce stress?    

Any suggestions on what I can do in the middle of the night?        I'm at the point where I might even just get up and go for a walk in the small hours.

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  • over 3 years ago
    Plastic said:
    I'm bothered by the still barely stocked shelves - I'm concerned that there's going to be a famine in the winter with farming locked down.

    Now you've got me worried. 

    In mid March, I panicked,  along with everyone else, and stocked up.  Unfortunately I bought the wrong things and the supermarkets remained opened.  I was expecting a total,  twelve week lockdown; no shops and not allowed to leave the house.

    For the last few weeks I have been eating into my stock, thinking things are getting back to normal.

    Now I intend to restock, but I will practice stock rotation to avoid food getting spoilt.

  • over 3 years ago in reply to Robert124

    Sorry, I don't mean to spread any anxiety.

    My wife and daughter think I'm prepping with all the tinned food I've accumulated.      I don't seem to be able to balance what is sensible or what is OTT with so little data available to me.      I'm also aware that most of the world is generally three meals away from anarchy.  

    My problem is I know too much about stuff and physical modelling and there's not enough data input to keep my world model on an even keel and the data I do receive makes no sense or is bad data so it's stuck in a positive feedback loop and going crazy.

  • over 3 years ago in reply to Plastic

    I'm sorry if I over-reacted,  but I did panic buy in March.

    I bought lots of toilet paper, I haven't bought any in the last ten weeks, I still have 22 rolls left. Note to self, don't stock up loo paper.

    I bought long life milk.  There hasn't been any shortage of fresh milk.

    I bought semi long life food, I can't spell it, but I had to throw away a whole packet of cheeses inside pasta shells, because it started to grow mold.  I bought it mid March, use by date 29 May, mould growing 21 may.  49p wasted.

    On second thoughts,  my problems are a bit petty.

    Now, I'm of into town to see what's reopened,  it's June.

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  • over 3 years ago in reply to Plastic

    I'm sorry if I over-reacted,  but I did panic buy in March.

    I bought lots of toilet paper, I haven't bought any in the last ten weeks, I still have 22 rolls left. Note to self, don't stock up loo paper.

    I bought long life milk.  There hasn't been any shortage of fresh milk.

    I bought semi long life food, I can't spell it, but I had to throw away a whole packet of cheeses inside pasta shells, because it started to grow mold.  I bought it mid March, use by date 29 May, mould growing 21 may.  49p wasted.

    On second thoughts,  my problems are a bit petty.

    Now, I'm of into town to see what's reopened,  it's June.

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