As per the thread title, I've been getting more and more twitchy and paranoid lately. Just now, after an outcall, I left a hotel I haven't visited in around two months. The receptionist wasn't at the counter but rushed back after hearing the door open, and just stood there for a moment as I left. Logically, it seems likely to me that he hurried back having assumed that a client entered, but it made me all tense and resulted in a string of worst-case scenarios in my head ("Oh god, he was sizing me up and I'll get banned from the premises!").

Between that and a string of rather brutal robberies further south in my country, targeting exclusively working girls, and a murder of a street girl in Oslo, I've been incredibly on edge lately. Any creative ideas on how to combat creeping paranoia? Short time off is not a preferred solution, but if it's an honest to god only option then I could consider some holiday time.

Well, you are somewhat noticeable and the legal situation there obviously doesn't help either.

I've gotten drastically less visible since I'm back to normal hair colour since July or so - hair started resenting the dye after 2 years, so it's time to let them rest, lest they fall apart.

And hrm, hard to say really - our tax season is March/April, so we are effectively in the run up to when it gets REALLY dead and I was hoping to squirrel away for that very purpose. Which, incidentally is what caused the total business death and my subsequent panic in March 2015 - it's much less scary now that I know the why. Live and learn.