The cool part about a nervous tic, and I'm not being facetious here, is that I have a very forceful indication that anxiety is starting to creep up on me.

It used to be that my indicator was the beginning of a panic attack, then it turned into certain thought and emotional patterns, but now I can spot it a mile off. Growth and learning opportunities abound :o) Growth because I have gotten better at this, learning opportunities because now I have a signal to start looking for a non-physical signal to chill out!

I hope you all don't mind me talking about this here. I have a hard time focusing on anything else, and it does feel good to kind of selectively overshare and get stuff off my chest. :o)