Something for my nerves please?

[db05]

I got a guitar recital on Sunday, and exams next week. I'm a music student. What more can I say?

This is all making me feel so nervous, I even went to the doctor hoping that I'm indeed sick of something and I can be cured right away. But she found nothing wrong; either it's the nerves or I got tuberculosis (x-ray would confirm).

Not that I'm coughing up blood, but it's getting hard to breathe sometimes. And think straight. And do anything productive. My head hurts, not in the splitting way, but in the ever-distraciting, dizzying way. I feel like my stomach is full of air and I want to fart it out LOL. Seriously though, I feel heavy. I want to study but I'm so tired. I'm so tired but I can't sleep. I'm so distracted. I can try to watch tv or do something fun and totally unrelated to music, but my mind is always somewhere else being anxious.

[pianochick93]

Does reading help?
For me getting lost in a story always helps to calm me down and relax me.
Alternatively, try just talking to someone about something completely unrelated, and make the conversation in-depth and intriguing enough so that you don't have mental space left to stress.

[morningstar]

Umm what is it...vallium!

[db05]

Does reading help?
For me getting lost in a story always helps to calm me down and relax me.
Alternatively, try just talking to someone about something completely unrelated, and make the conversation in-depth and intriguing enough so that you don't have mental space left to stress.

Okay, I'll try it. I got some mangas. Very interesting reading, though short.

Umm what is it...vallium!

Don't know where to get that.

[morningstar]

Don't know where to get that.

From pharmacies or the black market lol-easier to get from the black market methinks.

[momopi]

Hehe valium...
morningstar bad master! 

you can buy it anywhere. my mom even knows where. hehe.

maybe relaxing is really difficult when you reached a certain level of stress. the kind of stress that just won't go down no matter what how much you relax.

if you have time, why don't you go up really early and jog?

reading, taking a nice, long bath, talking to someone while having coffee - they all sound too nice. but jogging - or any activity that will really exhaust you - will take up a lot your pent-up energy (and aggression). by the time you get super tired - you won't have much time to worry. you'd just want to rest. or maybe try kick-boxing... that sounds nice too.

of course, you'd still worry after but maybe not as much.

good luck on your recital

[db05]

You know you've hit rock bottom when your getting advice from a pet. 

if you have time, why don't you go up really early and jog?

reading, taking a nice, long bath, talking to someone while having coffee - they all sound too nice. but jogging - or any activity that will really exhaust you - will take up a lot your pent-up energy (and aggression). by the time you get super tired - you won't have much time to worry. you'd just want to rest. or maybe try kick-boxing... that sounds nice too.

Too late. It's already evening now, and recital is tomorrow. And I still haven't finished one of the pieces. Couldn't bring myself to back out, now I'm in a sticky situation.

I'd find an outlet. Watch tv, walk to the store to buy something, eat noodles (the kind that is too spicy to be finished quickly), take a hot bath, drink coffee, go online, go to school (most tiring of all). I can get tired physically but my mind is on all the time. I do fall asleep after a lot of thinking, and still find myself thinking first thing in the morning.

maybe I should try that valium thing.

[term]

maybe I should try that valium thing.

Of course. The best thing to do is to drug you up.  Problems are best solved by supressing the symptoms so that things can get worse. I don't understand you people...
At least try jogging as mompi suggested. When i went through something like that, that's what i did - jogging 2 hours at night and when it was freezing cold outside. I continued theorizing when i jogged but my thoughts got organized and after that i slept like a baby.

Ideally, you don't think at all. Bruce lee said something about this: "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water".

[db05]

Of course. The best thing to do is to drug you up.  Problems are best solved by supressing the symptoms so that things can get worse. I don't understand you people...

I was being sarcastic LOL.

Thanks.

[rob_the_dude]

How was the recital?

Hopefully this won't be putting my size 10's in it 

[shinerl]

Not that I'm coughing up blood, but it's getting hard to breathe sometimes. And think straight. And do anything productive. My head hurts, not in the splitting way, but in the ever-distraciting, dizzying way. I feel like my stomach is full of air and I want to fart it out LOL. Seriously though, I feel heavy. I want to study but I'm so tired. I'm so tired but I can't sleep. I'm so distracted. I can try to watch tv or do something fun and totally unrelated to music, but my mind is always somewhere else being anxious.

Speaking of  strees but maybe try Chlorpromazine or Haloperidol.
Or get some Sodium Penthotal(Truth serum) and admit something.

[db05]

How was the recital?

Hopefully this won't be putting my size 10's in it 

Terrible. I couldn't memorize half of The Entertainer, so I ended up playing the intro and parts A and B. Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the feedback and my hands being so sweaty that I was slipping all over my pieces.

Mom thought Romance de Amor (Forbidden Games) was nice though, but she always said that...  And ending with Allegretto wasn't the best choice. No one liked it. 

I'm glad it's over, but I got final exams tomorrow. Music history, solfege and practicals... Music is so complicated.

[rob_the_dude]

We all have bad performances.

This may sound a but way out, but for some things i get my dad to hypnotise me. It really works well. But don't worry, its not all about making you act like a chicken!   

Theres a technique, you may be able to find it on the web, of relaxing hypnosis that helps calm you before you get hypnotised fully. And the best thing is that you can do it yourself!

Basically, lay down on your back in a darkened room with your hands down by your sides. Imagine that there is a stream that starts in your head and runs right down to your toes. You can feel it running down the back of your neck, down your arms and into your fingers. Then it runs down your back, into your legs before flowing through your ankles and into your feet and toes.

It has worked if your body (especially your arms) feels really heavy and that you honestly cannot (or can't be bothered) to move them. Then go to sleep, it should relax you when you wake up. It may also be an idea to do it before your finals.

The main thing is to talk to yourself in a relaxing voice and imagine the stream running through different parts of your body... zzzzzzzzzzzz!

Hope this helps 

Rob 

[db05]

We all have bad performances.

This may sound a but way out, but for some things i get my dad to hypnotise me. It really works well. But don't worry, its not all about making you act like a chicken!   

LOL!!

Thanks!