I feel like my brain is in shut-down fight-or-flight mode constantly. I'm in a new place with a friend but I need to get a job, and I'm so terrified that I won't find work that my brain has gone on a sort of "lockdown" where I can't read, I can't write, I can't even watch my favourite shows because I can't focus. But at the same time, I have a constant feeling that I need to be doing something. I just moved here so my knit and crochet stuff is all still in storage, so I thought I would read some books and learn to code, but my brain feels like a rampaging toddler throwing a tantrum. I read maybe two paragraphs of a book, absorb none of it, get up and pace the apartment, sit back down and try to read, get frustrated after a page, try to watch something, get bored of it and quit, then if I try to do any journaling or writing my brain throws up the brakes again and I draw a blank on what to write. My last few journal entries are just "I don't know what I'm doing."   


All I'm able to do every day is pace around the apartment, pace through my social network apps, cry, and write broken journal entries that mean absolutely nothing. Does anyone else ever feel this sort of mental paralysis? If so, how do I get out of it? Honestly a huge sum of money would alleviate a lot of my stress but since no one ever gets granted lump sums of money there has to be a way out of this feeling where I don't get magically bestowed with $10G to solve all my problems. 

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TL;DR I'm mentally paralyzed and can't focus on anything at all, but I feel a constant need to be doing something. What do I do to escape this anxious paralysis?