Mon, Jun. 29th, 2009, 02:00 pm
Panic Attacks

High anxieties and two panic attacks so far today.  Have managed to keep them to myself for the most part.  Just ducked under my desk and breathed into a manila envelope for awhile.  Working at a training hospital -- this is our busiest time of year with the resident/fellow turnover, the end of the budget year, one faculty leaving for a sabbatical tomorrow and a temporary faculty and two visiting scholars starting on Wednesday.  Also, my supervisor is going on vacation tomorrow and I'm formatting the gross room manual--90 sections of it at the rate of about 5 minutes per section IF there are no interruptions.  So yeah, just a leeetle bit stressed at the moment.  But productive.  And managing pretty well.

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Tue, Jun. 30th, 2009 04:31 am (UTC)
[info]brithistorian

It sounds like you're handling things very well, considering the difficulties you're going through. (And I can totally relate to the difficulties of going through new-resident time, having gone through that myself in various jobs.)

I'm actually doing better than I have in years. I've started keeping a daily to-do list in one of my small Moleskines, and the individual tasks are small enough (unclutter for 5 minutes, bring in a box from the garage, make a phone call, etc.) that I usually get most of them done each day, which make me feel very productive. It also helps that I put my self-maintenance and self-improvement tasks on the list.
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Tue, Jun. 30th, 2009 06:20 am (UTC)
[info]mystic_savage

Thanks -- and thanks for the reminder to break things down into ever-smaller bits when it seems like a specific task is too large.
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Tue, Jun. 30th, 2009 02:52 pm (UTC)
[info]brithistorian

And the best thing about that technique is that you can break things down as far as you need to. When A. was going through her worst depression, she would start her to-do list each day with "wake up" so that she could start her day with an accomplishment.
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