Posted by Dinah on September 1, 2003, at 6:48:15
For me anyway. I've been working hard all week, and feeling worse emotionally. True, I drop to sleep exhausted, but my sleep is restless. My anxiety may have dropped, but my depression is rising.
When I'm working I'm not thinking about anything but the work. But later, I'm thinking about how lonely I am (I guess we all are). About how there are so many things that people just don't want to hear. About how if you're productive, people don't care about anything else. About how that's especially true in my marriage. About how the only place I can really be honest about who I am and what I feel is in therapy. And about how very sad that is.
I suspect that maybe the internal energy that shows itself as anxiety also is somehow protective against the low mood that flourishes when increased physical exertion depletes the energy.
Just a theory.
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