Stress Center Peer Support

Hello...I'm back to work full time since having the summer off...the days are getting shorter, mornings are very dark when I get up and the fatigue has set in so bad in the morning...I feel like I'm going to float out of my mind! I've been doing great for the past two months, no depression, no panic, no crippling anxiety, but the past week is different. I'm still walking every day, getting 8 hrs of sleep a nite and sleeping in a bit more on the weekends, eating healthy meals and listening to Lucinda every week. Here is my concern: When I enter my workplace and I notice how unbelievably fatigued I am...I "zone" out when people are talking...I'm spacey and then I get scared! I'm beginning to think about these spacey feelings at nite and it scares me to come to work and experience these feelings. They don't last all day, but the mornings are so rough. I should note that I finished the program late August and it has been a God send for me! Anyways...if anyone can relate..would you please send me some feedback as to what you do when these old feelings creep in?

Thank you...and I hope you all have a peaceful day!
Lynn

Sidd,

I cannot tell you how to deal with old feelings, because I still have them.

My anxiety is gradually waning, and it liked to float from symptoms in my chest (chest tightness, heart palpatations) to my head (cloudy thoughts, TIRED, FATIGUED feeling in my head, spacyness) and back again.

It has left my chest for the past 3 weeks, and has resided in my head. Sometimes I feel that is the worst, as the mental fatigue feeling attacks my ability to reason that it is just anxiety (which it is).

Anyways, all I can offer at this point is companionship. I am right there, right now.

It sounds like we both might be at the same point in recovery too...finishing the program and dealing with the remnants.

I long for the day when we are free and clear. And I know that it is coming.

Thanks Paul....as the day goes on...I feel much. I'm going back to the old ways of just floating through the day and this seems to help. Good luck with you and yes, I agree, I know the day is coming very soon when we are free and clear of this.

Thanks again!
Lynn