Coping mechanism needed right now for: TICK!

Recovery
#1

Coping mechanism needed right now for:

found a tick on me while going to bed. Now I'm feeling imaginary things crawling on me and I can't imagine sleeping right now but I have work in the morning. Do I just stop trying and just play games on my phone all night? Do I take a Xanax? Do I go sleep on the couch even though there's no privacy, I've got family visiting? Do I wake my mom to "make it all better"? I know it doesn't sound very life threatening but right now I'm really freaked out, grossed out, my skin in crawling. Breathing etc isn't helping the problem. I'm not hungry angry or lonely. I informed myself about ticks and reached out to friends who are all asleep though. I guess I could go to a meeting? I've got work in a few hours!

#2

Uh.....

#3

Ahhh, you still have benzos around you? Ticks are a fact of life. Bugs are also. You’ve been around long enough you have the tools you need I’m sure. Hope you made it through ok. Don’t think you have to worry too much about Lyme disease on the west coast. Hate those fruckers tho. Dogs get them and pass them along. Get a good tick formula for that dog. You’ll be fine. Hope you can get some rest later on then.

#4

The gross out of finding a tick is almost the worst. I've had to deal with treating places for bedbugs, spent days feeling like they were on me. You get to the point you can deal with it a lot better. Just find something to take your mind off it.