How do you get over the doomed jumpy feeling?

[waterflow]

I don't know why these episodes keep happening. Nothing even set it off this time but will have to wait it out. Was fine and then all of a sudden I have a feeling of sadness and just can't sit still or get anything really done. Having a hard time knitting even. I want to knit but I think I should be doing something else but I can't think of which to do and then I think why bother nothing matters but then I think I need to get stuff done but then I'm so tired and just don't care. Even took the effexor this morning which normally helps with that jumpy feeling. I think this weird feeling is worse then the bladder pain. At least that I know why and how. Of course when this happens I end up eating. Did pretty good at controlling myself but I still ate too much.

[kadi]

Yoga helps. I got the "10 minute solution" yoga tape & I do one of the segments. Or I set the timer & clean something for 10 minutes. Basically, if I can distract myself for 10 minutes, the feeling will often pass & if it doesn't, then I do something else for another 10 minutes. Or I call one of my girlfriends & talk to them about their life. That helps too.

[tigger_gal]

I get this way too.. I have started taking my wellbutrin xl again, andit has seemed to help. sometimes I start to do stuff then in the middle of it just give up.. It will pass.. sending you hugs.

[meme]

Flares definetly make those gloomy days worse. I get that way to, like why am I dieting, it won't matter in 60yrs if I was thin or not anyways. Still trying though. I always overeat with flares too. That's all I want to do all day, don't know why, it just makes me feel all bloated and worse. Hope tomorrow's better!

[SandyRN]

It kind of sounds like you might be having mini panic attacks. I get them sometimes as well. You might talk to your doctor about getting some valium, klonopin or other anxiety drug just to take when you have those spells. It helps just to know there is something in the house to help you shake those feelings off and might help you to stop them all together.

Hugs, Sandy

[traceann]

Hey - you're not alone! I get the "why bothers" myself, and I swear I can't pinpoint it to one specific action or anything. It's weird. Or, I'll have the whole day to myself, to do what I want - I will end up wasting the WHOLE day, debating on what project I want to do, then end up saying "eh, what's the point", lol!!! ARGH! My therapist told me once that maybe, just sitting there and doing nothing is what I really WANTED to do in the first place, but just felt like I must/should be doing something "constructive".... Never fear, it will pass - and don't worry about the eating - just get back on your course the next day, all is not lost!!!!

[waterflow]

Family doc gave me something for nerves back when I couldn't stop shaking last year but it was only for night time which I have the hydroxyzine for. He also only gave me a few and told me only to take them when really needed so I never did. This only happens at home unless I'm in a crowd but I've had the crowd problem since grade school.

Tracey, your therapist sounds like he might be right. Sometimes I just have to sit and watch tv like a zombie and not do any knitting of any kind. Haven't even exercised at all. did do some laundry and yesterday I did 3 loads of dishes in the washer but you would never know it. It seems like cleaning is a never ending task which I can't keep up with anymore no matter how hard I try. Just feels like life isn't fun anymore.

[traceann]

Oh yeah! Dishes are like laundry to me, you are NEVER ever done, lol. As your washing, the clothes you are wearing at the time you are doing that load, are creating a new load.... Same with dishes...you just get them all done, and you have to eat or drink again! ARGH!!!

Some days -and I am firm believer in this - you need to take "Mental Health" days - if that means to you to sit in your jammies all day and watch trash TV (like Jerry Springer etc) as my girlfriends and I call it - so be it. Sometimes it's just the break from the routine that we set for ourselves that we need. It's like allowing ourselves a treat, lol, to skip the exercise for one day, or some other "chore". I think it's fine to do, as long as I make a deal with myself to start right back up the next day... So, keep your chin up, we wouldn't realize the fun part of life if we didn't have the yucky parts to compare it to!! It will swing up again! I promise!

[July]

I get the jumpy feeling, also. I believe it is a form of anxiety. I always eat more when I'm anxious. It helps me to get out of the house. I guess it gets my mind on different things. I can go a little stir crazy being home too long. Also, reading anything I'm interested in helps. At first my body will resist sitting down to read and want to get up, but if I hang in there the process of reading slows me down.

It sure can seem like there are so many things to do, which feels overwhelming, and leads to anxiety. I struggle with that, also. I'm trying to think differently about it, slow down and do one thing at a time, one day at a time.

Hope you feel better soon. I'll keep you in my prayers.

[curlycue]

Jummpy Monkey

Again you ladies are right on it. I love the wealth of information, you ladies have to offer. I am so glad that we all share this site.

Kadi I do the same thing, but sometimes its so hard.

Kadi where can I get the Yoga Video!

[waterflow]

Had my hair done today. Really needed it since it was looking like I had a mop on my head. Took a chance and went to a new place that is really close by. She did a really good job cutting it so now I won't have to travel miles and miles. Going to start the diet thing too, AGAIN. Think this will diet #267.

Tracey, some mornings I just sit down and watch Fraiser. I love that show and it comes on for 1 hour and I think what about cleaning, laundry ect but I think I want to sit down and watch it. I always laugh when I watch it. Good shows are hard to come by.My uro acts and sort of looks like Niles. Never told him that and have wanted to many times but not sure how he would take it.


I know part of my problem is I get to feeling so lonely. No friends, sisters (have them but we don't talk). I just feel like I have lost so much because of the bladder which is stupid because I have always been a person fine being by myself.

All I can say is thank goodness for dish washers and I mean the kind with a motor on them not hands. Speaking of dishes I have a counter,sink full. Left them there this morning to go have my hair done. Suppose I need to get my butt out there and get the thing going. (dish washer, not my butt... )

[curlycue]

Jummpy

I am glad that you are feeling better.

[kadi]

The 10 minute yoga videos are:
"10 Minute Solution: Yoga"
"Perfect in Ten: Yoga"

I got them both at www.amazon.com

Cheers-

[traceann]

Nothing like a good trip to the salon!! Yeah! I love walking out and loving what she's done - I have her blow mine out straight, and it's like TV hair, lmao! But I can't recreate it at home no matter how hard I try - guess it would help if I could work over my head like she does, lol!

OMG! I LOVE Fraiser!!! That is one of my all-time-number-one favorite sitcoms, the humor is so quirky and fun. There was one line I like to use all the time, their dad wanted to go to a steak house to celebrate something, and Fraiser, who was a first apprehensive about it said - "oh what the Hell! The bloods just been flying through my arteries lately anyway!" That cracked me up. Have you watched The Class yet? I started watching it and slowly it really started to grow on me, the humor was like Fraiser humor (I love the red-headed guy's humor) - I noticed that it's produced by the same people that did Fraiser I believe. No wonder I like it!!!

[ICLori]

I used to get that feeling almost every day - I would wake up in the morning with that feeling most of the time. What an awful feeling!

The only thing that worked for me (that I tried, anyway, there may have been effective remedies I just didn't try) was taking antidepressants. And not just one pill here and there (that was how I interpreted your post, that you only take a pill here and there...?) but taking them consistently.

Antidrepessants don't work if you take them here and there like pain pills or tranquilizers. They need several weeks to build up in your system and to change the brain chemistry in beneficial ways. So you have to take them at the dose your doctor prescribes, and take them exactly as he prescribes them, in order to get any benefit from them at all.

Anyway, antidepressants worked like magic to take those icky feelings away for me. I realized I would always need antidepressants - my brain chemistry is off, and I will never be well without antidepressants. I am like a diabetic who must have insulin in order to be well.

Blessings, and I hope you will feel better soon,
Lori