Does anyone else just feel unbearably restless? Like it doesn’t matter what I do, I just feel so uncomfortable and like I’m supposed to be doing something else, but nothing is fulfilling. I can’t relax or enjoy anything, because I just feel this ridiculous urge to be doing something (what, I do not know, but something) and nothing is relieving it. I’m constantly waiting to be able to go to sleep so that I’m unconscious and the urge will go away. Or I’m waiting to eat something because that makes it go away temporarily. But I’m eating too much now because that’s basically the only thing that makes it stop. It’s not like pain in my chest like normal anxiety, it’s just an unbearable urge to find something fulfilling. It doesn’t feel like regular boredom, although I am bored. It’s like the feeling is intensified x1000. I can’t relax, I can’t even just be regular depressed anymore. I’ve had this feeling for like a week now and it’s not going away.

Yes! Especially at work when I’m stressed or anxious, I feel like I should be busy all the time. I work in a special school and one adult in my class picks up on this restlessness now and knows it is my OCD and asks “are you okay? What can I do to help? I work with lovely colleagues

Like nothing feels okay? I literally feel an absolutely unbearable urge to just self destruct. Like legit hit the self destruct button whatever that means because it doesn’t matter what I do I can’t stop thinking “this isn’t helping I want to be done with this and do something else”. I cannot explain to you how intense the urge is and it never lets up.

I’ve had this before... I have no idea what it is but it’s very haunting and I’m following just bc I want to know what t do abt this

Most likely built up anxiety. Do you exercise regularly? It might help release some of that energy

I don’t feel anxious though? At least not how I typically experience anxiety. My timeline of symptoms went as follows: extreme anxiety like 24/7, then complete depression with a lot of apathy, then this restless feeling cause the depression had lifted to some degree. Now I just feel like a bug...trapped, flying around hitting the walls of the cup im trapped in with no relief. It doesn’t feel like anxiety. God this sucks. But yes I try to exercise, but it’s hard to get going and keep going cause I get super emotional while exercising.

Yes! I feel exactly this way. It makes it difficult to prioritize chores versus entertaining stuff...like, I’ll be studying and think “I should exercise” and then go do that and think no, this is a waste of time because you should be doing (insert activity) instead. And this never stops.