Two days in a row I am writing an entry! Yay!
This one, too, was originally supposed to be scheduled for back in January. Well, it turns out it is still timely now!
Anxiety is ridiculous and no matter how much one tries to mitigate it, it takes one out. I went to bed last night feeling fine. I had a game plan. Set up the coffee machine for in the morning, had lunch ready to go. But then I woke up and my brain said, “Nope.”
So, I spent the majority of the day in bed. Sleeping off and on. Messaging with friends about how my brain sucks. I took Tylenol at one point to help with a mild headache/beginnings of a toothache. I managed to make and drink a cup of coffee but really nothing happened until almost 1pm. (Mind you, I was supposed to be at work at 4 am, I called in.)
I did have an errand at 2pm I accomplished and before that a friend stopped by to drop off an item.
Now I am back home, writing this blog, and getting settled down for the evening so I can go to work tomorrow. Which most of the time (and will be the case again) my brain just needs the day to check out and then it is fine for another couple of weeks.
While I still need to add yoga and a regular exercise routine, I do meditate and try to have routine that I follow at night. It has helped. My brain doesn’t go haywire as often and it only last a day, as opposed to up to three days at a time, which was the maximum it has done. Hopefully, if I add the other lifestyle changes, the yoga and the exercises, it will get even better. Though I doubt it will ever fully be gone. Sometimes the brain just gets overstimulated. Especially in our technologically charged, 24-hour society. That is where earplugs and a sleep mask come in handy.
Our brains are amazing, yet frustrating things indeed.