Hi! I realize it was only one line in your post, but this caught my eye: 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.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.
Just made an edit about it. When there's a concert with a band that I know very well, and can sing along to most of their songs and feel comfortable enough to be in the front of a mosh pit it becomes a therapeutic experience. It's odd, it's like I'm sweating parts of me away and have a clean slate at least for that night. I've never experienced that problem prior to the middle of this week, and it was a scary thing not having full control over your motor systems. I'm very interested in the technique you're talking about, how are you holding it though? Flat in your palm or some other way? Thanks for the input by the way, checked when I didn't recognize your name and noticed that you've been here for a crazy amount of time!I hope you enjoyed your concert.
Titus Andronicus. Walk out sweating, hot to cold, unable to hear, physically alive, feeling like I could run a marathon. Understand.Just made an edit about it. When there's a concert with a band that I know very well, and can sing along to most of their songs and feel comfortable enough to be in the front of a mosh pit it becomes a therapeutic experience. It's odd, it's like I'm sweating parts of me away and have a clean slate at least for that night.
With the bulb between my thumb and a crook in my index finger, but anyway with sufficent skin contact would work. Balling it up in a fist would insulate from the air, though. My account has been here for a while, but I've only been kicking about the site for a couple of days. :)