Or, could it be that when you push to perform, your adrenaline levels and cortisol levels increase ? Both are part of the anxiety/fight/flight system.

I know that certain activities will leave me a bit hyper or anxious or stimulated, however one defines it.

Maybe increasing your serotonin levels will help. A 50 mg or 100 mg 5-HTP capsule each morning may help. It has changed my life. I no longer take the SSRI I took for anxiety for 14 years. I replaced it with 5-HTP and feel much better. 50 or 100 mgs of 5-HTP is very safe unless one is taking an SSRI.

But, I also know to not stack strenuous activities on top of strenuous activities.

MV,

Right there with you, I can totally relate to your post.

I went for 3 months with quite manageable symptoms and after Christmas....BAM, for a month anxiety and headaches and somewhat hard to pinpoint any reason.

Stress from work really ramps up symptoms for me and stress occurs at a much lower level than prior to my accident.

It can get uncomfortable at times but I have found that I do just fine even when I think I am in over my head. I have to force myself to not let my mind wander when multi tasking arises...work triage sort of.

I battle that nagging thought and feeling of things not quite being right with me also. The last 2 weeks I have been making a very concerted effort to not allow the "feelings" to alarm me.

I would have never guessed an accident could still remind me it happened after 3 years.

Take care,
Bud

Totally, I went back to my tool box of mind management techniques, slept a lot meditated and all that good stuff and seem to be back on some what solid ground.

This is definitely an uptick in activity, I am doing high intensity drills in the morning all week followed by some course work in the afternoons, and cumulatively it seems to add back up to headaches and double vision with that detached feeling we are all familiar with. Which when the anxiety was present I was attributing it all to, now though that I have it managed I can kind of see something else at work here.

I am with you, 3 years later and after months of just good ol regular life and lots of laughs to have it come back on was a bit overwhelming and disappointing but I got some good advice here and I am going to carry on and see what I can do.

Thanks as always