Bad morning

I made it through two days of school starting out anxious but working through it. This morning at 4, I woke up anxious. it morphed into GERD symptoms of nausea and shakiness. I am now at school waiting for my students to arrive. I am happy to be here, but not happy to feel as lousy as I do. I had hoped that I was over that. I need your support to get me through the first class. One step at a time. Lots of breathing and sipping Chamomile tea and taking it easy.

Thanks. I am sitting while my kids are writing papers. i am almost better when I can keep busy. So far so good. One hour at a time. I am looking forward to after school when I get to go to my physical therapist since I met my deductible. I injured my hip last January and it still hasn't healed properly. I am a dancer so this is very annoying. She also does cranial sacral work which is very effective for anxiety. something to look forward to.

I am doodling during class to keep myself busy. if it is good for Bill Gates it is good for me.

Good morning! I am a teacher as well and I often feel anxious in the morning. I find that once I get here and start working with my kiddos, I am so busy that I don't think about anxiety at all. It's funny because once I sit down during my planning or lunch, I start getting all those aches and pains that make my health anxiety get ramped up. But if I'm busy, I don't get them at all. This morning my anxiety was manifesting itself with my stomach issues. I could NOT get out of the bathroom (sorry - TMI) and I was starting to think it was a stomach virus and not my normal anxiety issues. I almost didn't go to work, but I pushed through and once I got to work, it completely stopped and I feel fine. Hope the rest of your day goes well.

C.D.

Wishing you are great rest of your day, and an anxiety/symptoms free tomorrow!!

Great job of hanging in there during a rough spot.:)

Hope your P.T. is productive as well!

Keep posting!

S.C.

Everything you folks say in these posts above remind myself of ME! Mornings are usually the worst but when I get up and get busy, they seem to go away until I have free time to worry again...then the anxiety ramps up again. I sometimes wonder if we bring on our own anxiety because we "expect" it. I take care of a lady with ALS and the entire time I'm caring for her, I hardly think of my anxiety....the minute I leave, it starts again. Then I come home and if I try to rest, I have fitful mini-dreams that are nonsensical and it keeps me from being able to really rest so I worry that my anxiety will keep me from ever sleeping well again. Once again, my own worst enemy. I also worry about my closest girlfriend who I've known since we were teenagers (we are now both 67). She has always been the sweetest person in the world, very intelligent but always insecure. She now has macular degeneration and I'm afraid is starting with very early dementia so I want to be there for her but I find it so depressing to watch my "sister" be failing like this. So these depressing situations just seem to make my anxiety even worse but I see no escape from them because I want to help people less fortunate than me. I think doing things like that will take my mind off of myself, and it does while I'm with them, but as soon as I'm by myself again, I'm riddled with anxiety. I think I may start taking my .25 Xanax three times a day for now (that's what was originally prescribed) but I used to just take one in the morning as that was the only time I had bad anxiety until recently. Just venting here I guess but, as others have said, this site is a Godsend to those of us who suffer with this awful affliction.

Merrida said...
We all need perspective, and we all need to refresh our perspective on a regular basis. You're very right on that one, to be sure!

It sounds like you've made it through okay. I know it was a rough ride with bumpy waters, but it's another success.

I'm much like you in that when I get anxious, I get fidgety and it can actually make my anxiety worse. Distraction.

Doodling is a good place to start! :)

M.

any other ideas for distraction M?

Post Edited (cilly) : 9/11/2014 2:52:33 PM (GMT-6)

I hear you! My daughter- a teacher has terrible stomach problems when school first starts. It sounds like this is common among teachers. I wonder if todays kids have anything to do with it :)
I wish you all the best

Thats right, "baby steps". I also say to take one day at a time.