So relatable

[Loki1018]

Just trying to get through today..... really trying

[fallen_leaf]

One step at a time. Try your best and forgive yourself for what you don’t accomplish today and try again tomorrow.

[JAYnLA]

The best you can do is actually the best you can do everyday. You will get through today and it may even improve. Thanks for opening up with us!

[Loki1018]

Unfortunately I’m at work so things have to get done. I work in a hospital and on a labor and delivery unit where it’s mostly a happy place with babies always being born.

So I put on this fake smile, dress up in a happy suit and try my best to be all happy.

I will be going in a few to assist the doctor in a c-section (I’m an OR Tech) so the fact that I feel trapped here at work just heightens my anxiety even more especially because we are dealing with pregnant women and babies can act up at anytime and start crashing so it’s also a very stressful unit.

The only time my brain 🧠 switches up though is once I’m in the OR everything goes away until the patient is done and out the room safe and with a baby. The OR tends to be my distraction from everything that goes on within me it’s like a sanctuary for the moment.

[LucyKe in reply to Loki1018]

A lot goes on in the hospital, I can see a lot of anxiety there...did you get to interact with the babies? Sometimes they can be calming

[Kat63 in reply to Loki1018]

That sounds like a stressful job. What are some things you can do to make yourself feel better, right in the moment when you’re at work? (Something like taking deep breaths, etc.?)

[Loki1018]

The job isn’t really the trigger and I sometimes do walk into the nursery to be around the babies but I don’t feel like going in there at the moment because I know the nurse there is going to send me to do tasks which isn’t part of my job.

Btw not only do I have anxiety but along with bipolar depression. I don’t have the time or energy for yoga I do PT about 5 days a week due to a car accident so by the time I get home from work and that it’s me trying to catch up on other things that need to be done or I just check out shower and sleep 😴 because I have broken sleep through out the night due to pain and my anxiety or my OCD thoughts running a million miles a min. I have to be up by 5:30 am in order to be at work on time.

[Kat63 in reply to Loki1018]

What are some little things you could have or do to comfort yourself? Sometimes life is just plain hard, and it’s those times when little comforts mean everything. A favorite TV show? A favorite meal? The good way your bed feels when you slide into it at the end of the day?

[fallen_leaf in reply to Loki1018]

Can you take medicine for you me pain and anxiety at night? I take gabapentine only at night and it helps me. Maybe ask your doctor for something?

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💕 you can do this !

[Loki1018]

I have meds that I take but I’m so sensitive and petite that I can only take my anxiety med at night or I have to build a tolerance but I don’t want to do that since I take Xanax only as needed so my tolerance really doesn’t build up. I don’t take it at night because it’s so hard for me to shake it off so early in the morning when I have to get up for work. I just got out of the OR mom and baby are good and that got my mind off of things for a bit since all my focus goes into that surgery. I’m almost out of here.