@housepanther@actuallyautistic mine is tricky. For what it’s worth, I’ll share some interesting observations I’ve made recently.
I used to have anxiety as I wake up in the morning, and at night before going to sleep because I would anticipate the next morning’s anxiety.
I’m a morning person though and my brain works best and fastest in the morning. As soon as I got out of bed and started making coffee, my anxiety would subside. Until it was time to worry about the day’s duties that is. Then depending on how overwhelmed I felt, I would have varying levels of anxiety until the afternoon, which was always when I was most relaxed.
Recently though, since I’m more aware of my sound sensitivity and “spoons,” I realized that my anxiety inversely correlates with how high my IQ is at any given moment. The more rested and full of energy my brain is, the faster and more reliably it works, and the faster it works, the less my anxiety is.
One interesting thing is, stimulants such as caffeine will slightly perk me up, and DECREASE my anxiety whereas alcohol will depress me slightly, thus decrease my brain processing speed, which in turn will INCREASE my anxiety.
Nowadays, I use disposable memory foam ear plugs (not environmentally friendly, I know but my ears are prone to infection from reusable plugs) to increase my rest quality, which helps a lot with my brain function, and makes my anxiety pretty much non existent. When it comes back, I know I’m fatigued even if I don’t really feel like it. I put my ear plugs in and it helps with taking some load off my brain, which helps with the anxiety until I can get some sleep and recover better.
I don’t know if this is useful information for anyone but who knows, maybe it will give some ideas for experimenting.