I also take care of any animals I find wounded or sick in the street. Sometimes they just need rest, cleaning up and good feeding. We have got an "animal ambulance" service here that will come pick them up from my home if they need care I cannot give. They are volunteers and work with donations, and they pick up animals for free. If you pay a small donation each year, they will give you free rides to the vet in case your animal is in an emergency. Otherwise you can still use them for a ride to the vet put you pay them a realistic sum.
They are really good people and they also offer a chance for people, who would otherwise not readily be employed or who live on a large income they do not work for and get bored, to be part of society. Some very carefully screened ex-addicts get to work there as a stepping stone towards proper employment.

What did you do today?
I went with a friend who lives nearby to do our shopping for the week. She was very out of sorts because their doggy had an accident hurting his foot. She asked to go together because she feared making mistakes - which she did and I could help her. I really enjoyed shopping together for my own sake too but felt overwhelmed afterwards.
Late at night I found a cloister-style dining room table and four matching chairs on the curb nearby. People leave large stuff in certain area's once a week for the trash people to pick up. There was a lot of other beautiful oak furniture too but I had no room, alas. I am painting my bedroom so my home is full of stuff that don't belong where it is. My dining room table and chairs were 15 years old, I hated parting with them but the cats had scratched up the legs real bad.

I am sorry you felt that way. I did too. This is what I meant by "not knowing where to put myself". You know, the remark about building a prison for yourself may just be a way to encourage you to sometimes take a bit more of a risk of becoming restless. The idea being that it is better to develop ways of dealing with this restlessness than to avoid more and more, which could lead to phobia. You probably know all that anyway. I sometimes feel I am avoiding risk too much, so then I do a bit more.
It makes me more confident when I find a coping skill that works for me, more in control, but I do not like being dislodged from where I am by negative statements. It works a lot better to remind me of the last time something did work for me and how happy I was about it. I am very much a hedgehog whenever anyone tries to "correct" me by negative statements. Where I come from were very negative people. They were not interested in me, just in getting as much glory and praise about me for themselves as possible. So I forbade them to show everyone my paintings. Later on I learned people in my family were grateful for that suddenly stopping and they laughed when they found out why. Couldn't stop them from bragging about my school grades, though.

I did try out a couple of things too, and even so it took me a couple of hours and a nap to get over it, just like you.

For me, this is the next day, BTW. I am really enjoying this sharing with you. How are you today?