The Anxiety Thread

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  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    Mine beats 40's-50's bpm. I'm half corpse, half cat.
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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    ChloRob_ wrote: »
    What doesn’t make me anxious?

    this has to be a trick question....
  • slessofme
    slessofme Posts: 7,740 Member
    I'm *t*his close to cancelling a trip I have planned (leaving tomorrow) because my anxiety is in my head presenting, detailing, justifying and defending against rational thought every worst case scenario possible.
  • Olgutza111
    Olgutza111 Posts: 3 Member
    At times I get anxiety on my way to the gym. It's a feeling like I don't belong there. I don't know where it comes from but I have to force myself to work through it.


    Me too...and usually I start crying and if I start crying, there is no way I go to the gym that day (( still didn’t learn how to force myself to get over it

  • SabAteNine
    SabAteNine Posts: 1,867 Member
    Similar to Banner always being angry, I'm always anxious. But unless you hook me up for an EKG, you really can't tell. Upside is, a lie detector would probably be useless - I'd go erratic from the first baseline question.

    My list includes talking on the phone, crowds, work, thinking about work, trying to not think about work, introducing myself (which is why I can't remember the other person's name, because I am focused on composure), starting a conversation / networking, eye contact on the street, etc, etc. It's very high-functioning, meaning I can do all of these and more and leverage adrenaline, but when I finally arrive to be alone somewhere I realize how completely worn out I am for it.
  • kelley4avon
    kelley4avon Posts: 20 Member
    lstrat115 wrote: »
    The list of things that do not make me anxious is smaller:

    butterflies

    Oh, me too!!!
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  • Misty_1375
    Misty_1375 Posts: 759 Member
    tamlou89 wrote: »
    Crossing busy roads
    Speaking on the phone
    Being in large groups

    I have horrible anxiety and large groups are the worst!
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Genocide.
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  • Leeah77MFP
    Leeah77MFP Posts: 25 Member
    Driving...Ever since I got in an accident on the highway I have massive anxiety on the freeway. I have anxiety driving as it is and try to take the back roads. Also the older I get the more anxiety I have around big crowds. I have anxiety around a lot of things.
  • rowlandsw
    rowlandsw Posts: 1,166 Member
    Glad to see i'm not the only one with a full blown anxiety disorder, even with my meds it is nearly crippling on top of the depressive disorder, bipolar, and a touch of what my therapist says is resembling asberger's.
  • Pastaprincess1978
    Pastaprincess1978 Posts: 371 Member
    edited May 2018
    Hey all - does anyone find that their anxiety, while making you anxious about everything, you actually don't differentiate between small things that you shouldn't worry about and big things that you really need to focus on as well as you should?

    ie obsessing and worrying over small things makes you give less attention to the bigger things you are still obsessing and worrying over? Thereby missing important things?
  • skctilidie
    skctilidie Posts: 1,404 Member
    Hey all - does anyone find that their anxiety, while making you anxious about everything, you actually don't differentiate between small things that you shouldn't worry about and big things that you really need to focus on as well as you should?

    ie obsessing and worrying over small things makes you give less attention to the bigger things you are still obsessing and worrying over? Thereby missing important things?

    All the time.
  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
    edited May 2018
    Driving with the gas on E

    wtf?? that just happened to me today

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    That's not quite empty. There's still another 20km left in that tank (yes, I'm that kind of person)

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  • Pastaprincess1978
    Pastaprincess1978 Posts: 371 Member
    skctilidie wrote: »
    Hey all - does anyone find that their anxiety, while making you anxious about everything, you actually don't differentiate between small things that you shouldn't worry about and big things that you really need to focus on as well as you should?

    ie obsessing and worrying over small things makes you give less attention to the bigger things you are still obsessing and worrying over? Thereby missing important things?

    All the time.

    Thank you :) I am not alone - so what do we do about it??
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    tamlou89 wrote: »
    Speaking on the phone

    So it's not just me... :D
  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    Making major life decisions/changes...id like to stay in my safe bubble for life...but when someone kicks le bubble...
  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    Teeth...mine and my kids teeth.

    I dream regurarly of losing them.
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  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    Teeth...mine and my kids teeth.

    I dream regurarly of losing them.

    Negative meanings: insecurity, ambivalence, cost of inaction or compromising. Dreams about teeth falling indicate times of change and feeling of loss. Teeth falling out are symbols of a costly compromise, lack of balance in your life. Intensity of the emotions in the dream are a reflection of tension felt in life.

    Oh :( .... Now im anxious i made so many wrong turns in life.
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  • skctilidie
    skctilidie Posts: 1,404 Member
    skctilidie wrote: »
    Hey all - does anyone find that their anxiety, while making you anxious about everything, you actually don't differentiate between small things that you shouldn't worry about and big things that you really need to focus on as well as you should?

    ie obsessing and worrying over small things makes you give less attention to the bigger things you are still obsessing and worrying over? Thereby missing important things?

    All the time.

    Thank you :) I am not alone - so what do we do about it??

    I wish I knew. I try to write down the important things that I really can’t forget about the second I think about them/get an email about them/whatever, so that they don’t get lost in the shuffle in my mind, but that’s it. When it comes my my calendar and to-do list, of I don’t write it down, it doesn’t get done.