home anxiety

[dgb115]

Why is it that when I am off of work for more than a couple of days just doing things around my house my anxiety seems worse. I have a grown child and it is just my husband and myself. I never seemed relaxed at home. My husband is at work and I am home alone so what causes this anxiety. I take 25 mg of zoloft and 2.5 mg norvasc for hbp and .5 xanax at night for sleep. Any insights into this problem.
             Thanks

[dgb115]

you guys are great thanks for your responses

[Paxiled]

Work is the American drug.  Mostly, we don't do anything anyone needs doing, but it keeps us busy.  It's our national heroin.  Unless you grow food, build or maintain shelter, or provide water, that is.

[Anz428]

I get this too.  I feel like the only way my anxiety goes away is when I am busy, but its not fun though when you are tired and need to relax.  What greenlydia says is true...we have to find hobbies...

[dgb115]

Thanks so much for the reply. Yep it sounds like you may have the answer. Thanks for your time and help.
dgb115

[RubyWitch]

While you are at work, you don't have time to sit around and dwell on yourself and all the little aches, pains, twitches and tweaks we all have. And for those of us with anxiety, those things turn into cancer and brain tumors and MS and strokes and heart attacks..............
When you're home alone for hours, you can focus all that energy on making yourself miserable and anxious. Great trade-off, eh? It's like me and my lousy migraines. I work at an incredibly stressful job and while I'm there, I never get a migraine which is as close to a miracles as I'm likely to get. But guess what happens on my days off? I get killer migraines. They're called "week-end" migraines, even tho they can happen any day of the week. My neuro explained that when we are use to a particular level of stress, our brains, our bodies get use to, they adapt and learn to deal with it. When it is suddenly "taken away" from us, when we don't have that constant adrenaline rush, our brains sort of "crash and burn." Pretty much the same when YOU suddenly have all this free time to think about yourself. A rather stinky leaky canoe we're in, you and I.
I think you know what the answer is. You need to stay busy. You need something larger than yourself to focus on. A new hobby. Take some classes at the local Community College. A volunteer job. Join a gym. Take up Yoga or Tai Chi. Start a book club. Spend time here at MedHelp talking to others who feel the way you do. Helping others is one of the best ways to help ourselves.

Spending time alone can be (and is) wonderful and rejuvenating. Spending TOO much time alone can shove us into depression. Take steps NOW to prevent that.

Peace
Greenlydia