What helped me: - Exercise. - Change of diet. (No junk food, learned to cook) - No/limit/control caffeine. I only ingest caffeine when my behavior isn't cri

What helped me: - Exercise. - Change of diet. (No junk food, learned to cook) - No/limit/control caffeine. I only ingest caffeine when my behavior isn't critical, ie I can have coffee if my tasks are all computer related. But if there is a meeting with people in the day, I don't drink coffee because I know I will do or say something "wrong" at the meeting. Caffeine at least it greatly increases the odds of me having a hard time in a particular event, especially if something unexpected happens. It can turn normal event into a difficult one, and hard one into an unbearable experience. - Forcing myself to remain calm. The more I do this the better control I get. It's never easy, so I fail and try again. And again and again. - Plan/train ahead of time. I mentally practice an event that causes me issues. Everything from conversations, to procrastination, distractions, etc... I go through in my head how I want something to happen and how I want to react or choose to behave in advance. So when it does happen I have a fighting chance. A few go arounds with this (failing each time) and eventually I get a better result. It took me practice and work and accepting discomfort on a nearly constant and daily occurrence, and to just accept this discomfort as normal. (the end secret) I think you are in a harder place because you are used to something and now have to learn to "feel" different. Just keep trying and you will eventually feel different, it's just how life works. We get used to what we force our selves to accept. (within limits of course, right?) Just don't give up. Fail thousands of times, but just keep going because you have already discovered you don't want to go back. Try something new whenever you have to. These past years I've tried many, many new things because "I just don't want to keep doing what I've already done", which is similar to your situation, you have committed to something, the hardest part is over.