I think so but since you (and I) are aware of this we can stop the cycle when we see it starting. That is what my TDoc has been working on me with is seeing that cycle.

Some say "contagious", I like "conductive", but anxiety absolutely feeds off of others anxiety and the increasing general feelings of increased panic and anxiousness of the events in their environment.

Of course, anxiety isn’t a switch you can just turn off. The reason anxiety likes to transfer itself from one person to another is because it’s effective. If someone you work or live with or people around you are anxious/panicked, it’s easy for you to get swept up as well. But, if you can remind yourself that part of your anxiety actually belongs to someone else—and therefore, it’s okay to let it go and just focus on the problem at hand—you might be able to reduce your own.

I've been spending a lot of time outside over the weekend, as the more time I'm inside I feel caged and anxious. So I'm doing a lot of gardening and walking through the corrals with the horses. Took Rambo for a long walk on her kitty leash yesterday and she enjoyed it, found many new things to play with and sniff at.

I'm finding the more I stay inside, the more I read and research and the more I read about every new thing thats closing, every new State imposing Rules, the more Claustrophobic I feel and the more anxious I feel. So for me, for the time being I shall be hanging out with Mother Nature as much as possible.

Take care.

Spotting and identifying that cycle remains difficult for me, Thor, much less stopping it before I explode. It is literally mind blowing how fast those explosions happen in my own case. Works in progress. . . For sure, it be the strictly personal awareness which guides the works in progress.

Glad you are reconnecting with Nature, CPer. My farm work is feeling even more welcome than normal with the yaddahs working their blahs in The Great Indoors this week. I may not return from Mother Nature after all this blows over.

I hear you....I take great comfort in the fact that I live on a Horse Ranch, and can isolate the hell out of myself if I so choose. I just have to remember to turn all the "screens" off and not overload on the public info....all of that is just too much. A good stretch in the hammock, with a book, listening to the birds and the wind in the treetops...works better than any med when it comes to anxiety for me....I'm great at isolating...but un-connecting my brain from all the information is the harder part...still a work in progress in that area for sure.