Is It Just Me Or Does Everyone Feel This Way Sometimes?

[Steffy2389]

It's so hard to describe sometimes. I feel so exhausted, but agitated, or rather just frustrated. I want something to do, but I'm uninterested or unfocused to do much of anything. I tend to grind my teeth and bounce my leg without noticing until someone points out that I'm tense or extremely fidgety; both which are unlike me for long periods of time.

I hate feeling like this and don't know whether or not my medicines are causing me to have more pent up energy, or what.

Does anybody else get this way?

 

[GWhizz]

I do the whole restless leg thing a lot without noticing until someone points it out. I'm trying to use mindfulness to calm my hypesactivity or rather hypervigilant state. I'm not on meds anymore so I can't say it was ever anything to do with that - I've done it ever since I was a young child in school.

It could be worse right? I recommend using relaxation strategies to help minimise these episodes. I find I do it less when I'm more de-stressed.

 

[Friday]

Pissed off, frustrated, bored outta my mind, no focus or direction? Check.

 

[Steffy2389]

There! I was so bored, but at the same time, uninterested in anything. I was internally frustrated with everything that I almost want to cry. It's not all the time, but boy when it comes up, it drives me crazy.

 

[lostinlife79]

I do the teeth grinding thing when everything has become to much.. I'm cptsd & survivors guilt. I used to do the leg thing but use relaxation or grounding tools to bring myself to a more manageble calm. The grinding i haven't been able to shove aside so easily but being mindfull of the damage helps reduce frequency/length.

 

[InvisibleSun]

Yup...particularly bad in social situations. The leg thing is real bad. Very fidgety and agitated, scanning the room. It's like an anxious energy, but very exhausting. It's part of the reason that I smoke way too many cigarettes. Angry, unfocused, tired..like the life has just been sucked right out of you. Relaxation techniques and meds have helped me a lot. Definitely something I still struggle with though.

 

[Steffy2389]

If I may ask, what are some of your techniques/skills in dealing with the pent up anxious energy?
I've pushed myself to do chores, despite how exhausted I feel, but it always builds right back up! I usually have to wait for the feeling to lessen on its own.

 

[Wastinglight]

It's so hard to describe sometimes. I feel so exhausted, but agitated, or rather just frustrated. I w...

Wow. Your post could have been written by my guy. He does all of the above. He tends to throw himself into his yard work for weeks at a time. I'm not sure if it helps though, as he usually ends up with a sore back as well as all the other stuff. Then he'll go through periods where he's too fatigued and sore to do anything.

 

[falling_wave]

Yeah I do on many days. Like I have nervous energy and not enough motivation to let it out. My T said that's classic depression.

 

[Pilgrim]

I echo the chorus, here. I get this way especially at dusk and nightfall, bc of the impending thought of having to go to bed. I do all kinds of running around, for hours, 'cleaning' my apartment but getting very little actually done. Restless. Agitated. Yep. And I keep going til I can't anymore and pass out cold, to sleep. That is usually right around sunrise, for me.

 

[IrisL]

Hmmmm... That's a difficult one... How I saw there isn't a quick solution, becaus there isn't.
With me never helps the same thing.
Sometimes helps to write out my feelings and analyse it- why I don't do nothing? Why I'm just thinking to do something but I'm not doing in the reality?
How I see is more like a dissociation from reality.
Sometimes helps if I look around and tell to myself what is around me... Cracks on the wall... Counting things or reading anything which is in front of me... I feel like is more like the not factual way unrealised reality .the time pass you are talking with yourself and you are like a stone... Feels you can't do nothing...
Me at the end I become really angry with myself to waisted time. But more see it like that's you waist time for yourself because you think deep down you aren't good for more than waist the time.
We not respect the time... Because we not respect ourselves.
Sometimes help I make myself more angry and do body exercise - on the time when I want diagnosed with CPTSD I had a box bag so I just hit it until I crush down - take a shower and I was fine...
But sometimes I just cried for hours and fall asleep.
I think is a dissociation from reality because we not let ourselves to be.
And difficult to relax because it's come from we not let ourselves to relax - so you are creating a hoop - like at my case when the abuse happened, and lived in it.
So is an own created trap, because we not yet healed and not yet realised our time is for only for us, we make it or waist it. And because we were waisted is our own value towards ourselves.
And it's sucks because when you are in it you can't realise it until you waisted the time for yourself.
Nowadays I try if I have that session to start to say positive things to myself - which so far ends in negative critics - but at least try and realising when I say negative to myself.
Somehow I think you need to work out to realise yourself in the present. Realise you are worth and pure value which was waisted in the PAST! What you feel you felt in the past, is not here; you created to yourself, because you not give to yourself worth and you don't believe in yourself.if you fatally simplify it is a self hate. You hate yourself because you not even let yourself to create anything to you.

Maybe I'm wrong with the thinking I'm not sure but that's what I'm trying to apply.
Oh and if I feel I need to cry then just flipping force it out- just go for it cry it out- obviously after you realise the present you see is a way self pity and your inner child possibly needs a cuddle. So be nice with yourself. And force yourself to be positive towards your own person.

Sometimes bath helps with bubbles.
Leander oil in the bath
And feels like that's a long process and need a lots of progress to get over it...

Hope it's help something.

 

[fyredrift23]

I definitely clench my teeth (usually while I'm sleeping at night-I wake up with achy teeth :/ )
I'll fidgit, feel generally restless and not at ease, and I'll feel a frustrated/angry/sad all at once. It's kinda hard to describe. I didn't know other people felt this too! I know I'm over-stressed and living in a very stressful/tumultous environment, but I didn't know any of that stuff could be connected to anxiety or depression.