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Trying to improve my health and lifestyle

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Trying to get healthy makes me feel more unhealthy. I was on klonopin for 9 years and titrated off about a year go. I lost a lot of weight, about 60 pounds through diet and exercise. The whole process felt terrible. The withdrawal was awful but also the weight loss was tough. I work a night shift job that is pretty physical too and that was really hard on my body. Not to mention making it hard for me to fall asleep at night. I live nyc with my husband because he went to school here. He just graduated this May and is now looking for a job. I really don't like living here because it is sooo stimulating- the people, the crowds, the lights. I am from a small rural town so I still experience culture shock, but now its just kind of like a depression. I want to get back on the klonopin but I know that is a bad idea. I used to use over exercising to cope with the stress and anxiety but I had to stop because it was making me REALLY messed up. (angry, moody, too low body fat, no periods, ect...) I don't know how to be okay here in NYC with this fast lifestyle where you are never left alone. Im not sure what to do, or what else I can change.

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  • I can relate as I struggle a lot with weight loss (unintentional), ARFID, digestive issues and overexercising (though can't really at moment)... I think the root cause is the stress and anxiety but of course all the above issues then cause further stress so that doesn't help... Are you getting any time where you unwind? Is there any activity you really like to do that helps you relax? (I know it's so hard- I still haven't found anything apart from outdoors and exercise which really helps me unwind... though lately I found sudokos somewhat calming especially if also listening to an audiobook... it's like a dual thing for my brain to do so it somehow dims some of the thoughts... if I just listen to an audiobook or so I basically can just switch off the audiobook in my brain and just go into my anxious thoughts anyways...). 

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  • I can relate as I struggle a lot with weight loss (unintentional), ARFID, digestive issues and overexercising (though can't really at moment)... I think the root cause is the stress and anxiety but of course all the above issues then cause further stress so that doesn't help... Are you getting any time where you unwind? Is there any activity you really like to do that helps you relax? (I know it's so hard- I still haven't found anything apart from outdoors and exercise which really helps me unwind... though lately I found sudokos somewhat calming especially if also listening to an audiobook... it's like a dual thing for my brain to do so it somehow dims some of the thoughts... if I just listen to an audiobook or so I basically can just switch off the audiobook in my brain and just go into my anxious thoughts anyways...). 

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