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3 AM Panic Attacks = Writing Motivation!

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"What in the world am I doing?" That was all I could think this last Wednesday morning. Here it was: 3 AM, and I was driving to the gym. I'm going to try to give you a valid reason why this is what I chose to do at 3 AM, but chances are, it won't make sense anyway. I tried explaining my reasoning to my dad the next day, and he (understandably) just shook his head. Trust me when I tell all of you that it makes even less sense to me. But I'm going to try and see if writing it out helps either of us with the clarity.  In the last year or so, i've gotten pretty good at keeping a normalized sleep schedule. Most nights I can sleep from 11:30 - 7:30, give or take half an hour on either end. I tell you this because Tuesday night wasn't any different. I was in bed at 11 PM and fell asleep sometime after that.. A few hours later (somewhere around 1:30 AM), I woke up in a PANIC... Literally. I had one of the worst anxiety attacks i've had in a while. It fel...