Had a shocking experience this weekend. I have been hosting a teleconference for people with Social Anxiety. After the meeting this week, the leader of the organization contacts me and begins accusing me of publicly criticising him and using the teleconference as a forum to bash him.
I have been nothing but compliant and accomodating of this leader and was severely shaken by this turn of events.
I was suffering severe tension headaches all the next day, significant mental trauma from immediately after the event for days afterwards.
I did manage to utilize the technique of muscle stretching as one coping method. I spent significant time and effort to stretch, starting with my neck, onto the shoulders then onto the larger muscles around the hips. This was not a casual stretching but hours of effort utilizing a strap to assist and really generate movement to stiff muscles. This helped immensely.
I did manage to talk with a few people about it and could really tell just how shook up I was, but the simple act of talking about it did disipate the energy somewhat.
I had just made the decision to dispose of a couple of the TV's in my house so the default distraction of gazing at the tube was less available adding to the severity and need to deal more directly with the aftereffects of this confrontation.
I still found myself looking for means to distract from it, and then choosing positive outlets became the challenge.
I have extricated myself from the situation though don't feel very good about it, but also have to accept that it was an unsafe environment given the paranoia and accusatory nature of the leader.
