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The only thing keeping me sane right now is running. I’m a fat, slow runner so all of the oxygen goes to my heart and lungs and muscles leaving my brain with nothing to use on despair.

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Good. I walk and swim, at least for that amount of time, as you say, I can force my body to ignore my brain.

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Eating and sleeping work well too. 2 Xanax and a half-dozen benadryl gives me 12 hours of untroubled sleep, only disturbed when my chihuahua starts chewing my fingers.

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Be really careful with Xanax. 4 hours after having one you can get withdrawl from it and have worse anxiety or a panic attack. I'm hoping that you can find better coping mechanisms since we will really need them for at least the next 4 years and it's easier to resist their evil crap if we are all healthier.

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Yeah, when I was 30 years younger they had that effect on me. Also made me psycho when I drank with them. At this point in my life, dgaf, and with the benadryl makes all problems go away. It's a beautiful thing.

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I should try this.

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Running a bit and biking and drinking but not as much as I expected to…A little better each day unless I look at news . Keep on keeping on is all we can do. Probably need to have a good cry

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