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It seems we are doing better on day 5 also, I must have slept some last night and was awake around 5am or so. My anxiety after 2 pm yesterday was getting someone out of control running 100 mph. Been through this before and I need to stay home and away from others for a bit until I calm down. We are in for record colds and freezing weather for the next week so a great time to spend laying around with my little hound Pete. I am so glad I have Pete to be with as my wife passed away from Corona Virus back in May. I want to be well again so bad and I will try my best to keep going. One thing for sure, I have blocked all tv networks from my home to be safe from the B S and being upset over the world coming apart like a cheap suit. Netflix only watching comedy keeps my mind at rest and makes me smile some. Andy Griffith, Leave it to Beaver etc. Sounds sick but it works so good. Take care and we can beat this drug infested medical system country we live in. We will have a normal life again soon. NO DAMN DRUGS or medical help again period of any kind.
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You bring up such a good point. When I had my episode in September/October I found myself being to plugged in to media, COVID updates, the world imploding and all I listened to was podcasts about world problems. I think this affected me very much. Negativity, negativity, negativity. On my way to recovery I did a couple of things. 1 was exactly as you did. No more news, media, etc. If the world is going to blow up I'd rather not know before hand. No more pod casts, music only. I only watched neutral type shows like on Discovery channel. I like Gold Rush, Street Outlaws, and shows about the universe. I also finished all 6 seasons of Schitts Creek. Thats a good light show to get into. To be honest I barley remember any of it but I did watch all the episodes.
The other thing I did for about 8 weeks is work out. I'm not big into working out but I felt this tension in me. Like I was wound too tight. I have what you would call a punching bag but its not. Its called a bas rutten body action system. Its just a target type spring loaded thing I bought years ago for my son who does taekwondo. Anyway I would just wail on it for as long as I could still swing. Take a 2 min break and do it again for about 30 min. It relieved so much tension. After that I bought some resistance bands for like $40 off amazon and screwed it to my ceiling and did resistance band exercises and sit-ups. I really didn't care about how much weight I could do or anything I just did what felt comfortable. No real thought about what I was doing but just getting the tension out of my body. It helped alot to get the anxiety down.
Looks like we are in for another cold day record tonight. Its going down to -36c and -48c with the wind chill. -33f and -55f with wind chill.
I'm terribly sorry to hear about your wife.