Anita,

My distress which now comes every hour or 2 feels like butterflies and a rock in my stomach and I need to take a deep breath.  My thoughts feel on the lose meaning at times my brain starts reliving past conversations with M. Or things we did.  Other times my brain rehearses what I would say to him about seeing someone else.

It was getting better these last 2 weeks but got really bad again about 1 or 2 days ago.  At times I am able to give positive feedback to myself about the entire situation.  But I’m exhausted and I want it to stop.  I’m doing really well with the kids considering all this and they continue to adjust well to everything.

I’m wondering if you know of any techniques to not feel distressed or to stop these thoughts from randomly coming all the time. I feel paranoid that other people or either talking about me or judging me more than normal mostly at work because that’s where I’m at most of the time.  I feel overwhelmed going places.

Lindsey