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Has anyone else had the desire to just totally detach from society. I am so sick of all the stresses and pressures that I have been going through and I just wish I could take off for about a year and disappear from the mainstream of society. This job hunt that I am on makes me want to do this even more.
I can't seem to handle stress correctly anymore. Everytime I get really stressed out my body reacts by upping my blood pressure, I begin to sweat, and I almost get a sense of fight or flight. My mind will also begin to race. I am on medication for General Anxiety Disorder, which I didn't have until this year, and it works sometimes but in really high stress events it doesn't seem to keep my mind from racing.
I just feel that over the course of this last year there has been so much stress that was introduced into my life, the divorce, the demotion, quitting my job, and medical issues that my body has become hyper-sensitive to stress related issues.
I really wish I could just take off for a while in my boat and not deal with the mainstream. Just sail around, visit new places, relax, and not deal with all the pressures of my life. I have bills to pay, a $427 a month insurance to pay now that I am jobless, $80 a month in prescription medicines, and all kinds of other things that I have to deal with. I am just sick of the whole situation and I am beginning to realize that no matter what I end up doing for a job there will be plenty of stress in it because this whole world is high stress. It sucks.
I really wouldn't mind going back to school for a while and get new training for a new job but I just can't figure out how I would pay for it without getting back into debt from student loans etc.
If anyone out there has dealt with something like this how did you handle it?
I can't seem to handle stress correctly anymore. Everytime I get really stressed out my body reacts by upping my blood pressure, I begin to sweat, and I almost get a sense of fight or flight. My mind will also begin to race. I am on medication for General Anxiety Disorder, which I didn't have until this year, and it works sometimes but in really high stress events it doesn't seem to keep my mind from racing.
I just feel that over the course of this last year there has been so much stress that was introduced into my life, the divorce, the demotion, quitting my job, and medical issues that my body has become hyper-sensitive to stress related issues.
I really wish I could just take off for a while in my boat and not deal with the mainstream. Just sail around, visit new places, relax, and not deal with all the pressures of my life. I have bills to pay, a $427 a month insurance to pay now that I am jobless, $80 a month in prescription medicines, and all kinds of other things that I have to deal with. I am just sick of the whole situation and I am beginning to realize that no matter what I end up doing for a job there will be plenty of stress in it because this whole world is high stress. It sucks.
I really wouldn't mind going back to school for a while and get new training for a new job but I just can't figure out how I would pay for it without getting back into debt from student loans etc.
If anyone out there has dealt with something like this how did you handle it?
Are you still in your parents house? They sound like they're enough to make anyone want to Run down the plank!
Went to come up here and spend nights in the house watching the kids sleep while I work? Might make it easier on all of us. Oh well sigh, we all have our anchors to haul around.
I don't have any great advice about the anxiety, other than to just let it go. (Wish it were as easy to do as it is to say.)
If you believe in God, then think about putting it into His hands.
Also try visualization...picturing yourself on a beach somewhere. Works better with someone else actually touching you and speaking soothingly, but I've done it for myself because no one ever wanted to do it for me.
SOME IDIOTS shouldn't bust in to say that we are ridiculing you because the great thing is that YOU know us and you know that our hearts and well wishes are with you.
Where are you at and how is it where you live?
I cannot go anywhere though because I am sick and I need to be close to 911 and drs, though. I have an appointment almost every day between specialist, dr, chiro, acupuncture. That is when I don't have to cancel because I am in too much pain.
I would think you have enough going on to give you sometime with some help, like therapy or something.
I just need to find something to hold me over until I can get a good job. WHo knows.
I did it, it was actually fun.
Big hugs