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user-inactivated  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A post where I share things I don't normally share with people.

Hi! I realize it was only one line in your post, but this caught my eye:

    As in, there have been periods where I just been very jittery, very on edge, unable to hold my hands out still and jumping at everything.

I suffered from a panic disorder really badly growing up. I'm not saying that you have one as well, but I know that having physical symptoms like that can be exhausting all on their own.

Alot of my therapy centered around various people trying to teach me breath/meditation techniques through the facets of different medical fields. The idea was learning to do this ouside of a panicky state will give you a tool to apply towards untensing your body when you notice yourself slipping into one of those periods. I only made progress after I started holding a thermometer in my hand to make it 'real' to me. Physical relaxation increases blood flow to your extremities and will raise the thermometer. It gave me a metric to notice. Although, it also gave me some abject lessons about trying to force changes to situations I couldn't directly control.

Anywhoozle, if you decide to learn some kind of relaxation technique at some point, a thermometer (or some other form of biofeedback) might be helpful should you too find yourself skeptical.

I hope you enjoyed your concert.