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Posted On 05.15.09

I keep telling myself, "Stop planning, stop thinking you don't have enough to do..."

But I can't help it. I'm whelmed on most days and yesterday I was overwhelmed. Just driving home without feeling the walls around me crash down was difficult. Every red light I had to wait at was torture. I just wanted to crawl into bed and relinquish my control over the my little, busy world.

And then I remembered that I've felt this before. During college. During that t

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05.16.09

Thanks for this article. Completely understand. For me, the underlying feeling is anxiety. Anxiety that I'm just not doing my life well, which becomes a nagging fear that is suffocating and overwhelming. It either tranquilizes me to do nothing.

Or gives me an adrenaline/anxiety rush to try and do every thing at once.

05.16.09

I know exactly how that feels. I'm either on top of the world shouting or else I'm sitting at home staring at the TV wondering what happened to all the motivation.

I kind of always thought that I was just to easily overwhelmed, now I think I should try tracking the moon or my eating patterns. Something has to trigger it, right?

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