Emotional weirdness

[Godfrey]

So I feel like I've mostly recovered from my anxiety (in a general, accepting the symptoms and letting them come and go sense.  They've gone away), but my emotions are terribly out of whack right now.  I feel fine, but I seem to be emotionally unstable.


It seems like I get upset with people or things over stuff that normally doesn't bother me.  Not like panic attacks or outright freak outs, but I feel overall less tolerant since my panic attacks stopped happening.  Little comments people make set me off a little now, although I generally don't act on it.  I feel less enthusiastic about hanging out with people (I was always something of a loner, but it's moreso).  My blood relatives annoy me more (which is personal, but I may discuss it in the relationships forum later).  Hell, I'm less inclide to want to play video games with my best friend.

I'm also falling in love right now, which makes things more complicated.  I'll occasionally get hung on little things she says that don't mean anything but I'll blow it out of proportion in my head.   The problem?   Half the time these are POSITIVE things!  It's bloody weird and hard to describe, but it's like...Say, deciding a positive compliment means you've retroactively put yourself in Just Friend's territory for no logical reason, even though you've no reason to think so.  Or that she's just trying to be nice or whatever.  I generally don't act on these thoughts, because at this point I know better about this particular relationship and paranoia isn't attractive XP, but still.  Things are fine when I just sit back and enjoy the relationship, but sometimes my brain just flips out for a moment.

So yeah.  My body feels fine (though drowsy) but I'm emotionally unstable.   I'm sure it's just anxiety leftovers and possibly assimilating back into daily life?   Has anyone else had a similar problem?   I'm not "worried", but it is inconvenient and I'm pretty curious.

[Bama21]

Are you on any medication that could be causing this? 

[Godfrey]

Not at all.  I don't take medication.  I tried it, it didn't work out for me since my anxiety wasn't preventing me from living my life, so I could do without it.  (Plus there's a history of medication in general making me excitable.  More excitable than this.  Compared to that this is nothing).

[forwells]

hi

 Good to see your getting a handle on things

 It will settle down over time , I still have a bit of this but the good days out number the bad ones now

Your system is more than likely still a bit stressed and your mind might also be reading to much into things. Just go with it and let it pas like the rest   

Cheers and wish you well
kev 

[arijones1]

hey bud, i think panic attack is a release of all that built up anxiety, u stopped having em thats great. but u still have anxiety thats building, up, now time to change your thinking.
get the book mind over mood, it helped me