The Anxiety Thread

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  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    edited September 2018
    Talking to people, I have social anxiety and it sucks, I hate it. I never can understand how people just, talk to each other. They always just have things to say. I don't get it. Does not compute.
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    I got a warning.. over something that was posted WEEKS ago. I despise that MFP also doesn't tell you what you got warned for (the post in question, I mean).
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    CanesGalactica wrote: »
    I got a warning.. over something that was posted WEEKS ago. I despise that MFP also doesn't tell you what you got warned for (the post in question, I mean).

    Then how do you know what not to do?
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    I get anxious when I call in sick to work. Sometimes think it would be better to just go in feeling miserable.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    I get immobilized when my email gets higher than 21 messages. If I see 22 or more I feel a sense of panic like I’m missing something important but I can’t seem to make myself go through it. Same with receiving a long and/or thoughtful message. I struggle to reply not because I don’t want to but because of this same inability to just do it.

    I just checked. My email is over 55,000. I'm not anxious about it.

    The world rocks along just fine without me.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    One time as a teenager I was with my dad while he serviced an auxiliary generator on top of a high rise office building in Dallas. Lunch time came and I got comfortable sitting on the edge of the building with my feet dangling 250' above the street and ate my sandwich.

    But I cannot stand to watch movies of people underwater without breathing apparatus.
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  • slessofme
    slessofme Posts: 7,740 Member
    Cameras
  • Mandygring
    Mandygring Posts: 704 Member
    Loud noises and anger give my crazy anxiety.
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    I spooked easily. I'll never find it funny when somebody sneaks up behind me.
  • Mean_Spice
    Mean_Spice Posts: 279 Member
    81Katz wrote: »
    I spooked easily. I'll never find it funny when somebody sneaks up behind me.

    Hugs to you. I way over react to this. Someone usually ends up hurt.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    tams_89 wrote: »
    The list of what doesn't give me anxiety is probably smaller but I am finally pushing through it.
    This past week I have joined a gym and I made a friend there. Signed up for a college course and started a new job. Finally booked driving lessons and even made a few phone calls lol. These things might seem simple to some but with social anxiety there have been days where I just want to hide away and be by myself.

    Hey I understand. Being able to do simple things that other people do on a regular basis, like have a conversation with someone who I don't know very well, and I'm like "YEAAA I am AWESOME! GO ME" lol
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I get anxious when I call in sick to work. Sometimes think it would be better to just go in feeling miserable.

    I do too.. like everyone is going to think I'm a slacker and I'm just faking it or something?
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  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    I'm having anxiety about the holidays and not wanting to go to a family gathering.

    I feel guilty.

    What's worse is I'm kinda angry that I feel guilty and anxious about doing what I want (not going) and not what other people want me to do.
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  • skctilidie
    skctilidie Posts: 1,404 Member
    Job hunting. It must be done at this point in my life, but it messes with my head so much. Even just finishing/hitting submit on the damn applications induces anxiety and I’m already a mess realizing I’m going to have to go to interviews. Ugh.
  • Jadesfire93
    Jadesfire93 Posts: 92 Member
    I sent an email to my boss this afternoon. She replied just a little while ago, and as I was reading through the email chain (cause that's something I just do), I caught three typos that I made. It's like an itch I can't scratch.
  • bootyrubsandtacos
    bootyrubsandtacos Posts: 775 Member
    edited October 2018
    Well I’m a caregiver so I’m always some degree of anxious. The RARE times I feel calm I question it, and then when I question it I get anxious again. It’s a vicious cycle, I’ve been a chronic worrier for as long as I could remember.

    It’s kind of weird, but sometimes I find my anxiety kind of comforting????? In some strange way it keeps me from getting disappointed, because if you always expect the worse then you can’t get hurt. It (whatever “it” is) won’t come as a shock. I feel like if I was calm and content then I have something to lose. I would always be afraid of having my happiness snatched away from me. I know that’s a warped way of thinking.

    On a “lighter” note stores like Costco, BJ’s, any type of wholesale warehouse store is a HUGE trigger for me. It’s not even just the people. I just find the merch incredibly overwhelming to look at. My mother loves to lollygag in those type of stores and I just can’t do it. We went to Costco on a Saturday once and I had a full blown panic attack. I had to walk out and wait for her in the car. Thank god for scooters.
  • kindalikevelma
    kindalikevelma Posts: 1,337 Member
    I tend to catastraphize things in my head. “What can go wrong will go wrong”. Dumb brain.
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  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    Chael2dot0 wrote: »
    Everything anyore. Had something inside kinda break about a year an a half ago, and have been through dozens of tests with no answers. One of the symptoms is massive anxiety attacks. It sux azz, totally. Some days I wake up and immediately feel overwehlmed. Sometimes I can be sitting and it happens, and it can hit at any time.

    This has happened to me...I know what triggered the onset though
  • kindalikevelma
    kindalikevelma Posts: 1,337 Member

    SnackherBarrell wrote: »
    kindalikevelma wrote: »
    I tend to catastraphize things in my head. “What can go wrong will go wrong”. Dumb brain.

    Murphy's law

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  • Chael2dot0
    Chael2dot0 Posts: 1,189 Member
    mustacheU2Lift wrote: »
    This has happened to me...I know what triggered the onset though
    <3


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