Anxiety

[acatfrommars]

My situation is similar to Luck Hax's. When I was younger, like in middle school and younger I always felt like I had to be perfect and live up to people's expectations of myself. That's why I always strove to make the best grades, and not make a single mistake and that would put pressure on me so much. Towards high school, I started to realize I didn't have to be perfect and people would still like me, now I don't have much anxiety issues unless it's finals week or something big like that.

 

[Corvus of the Black Night]

I have generalized anxiety so yeah. Sometimes it's completely unbearable and I just pace like crazy.

 

[Sloan Kettering]

There is literally nothing I'm not constantly paranoid about. Luckily, I tend to avoid anxiety attacks, though they manifest themselves nowadays under high stress as an inability to breathe! So fun~ I think that it's mostly social anxiety more than anything.

 

[Evening]

7/10

I'm very sensitive about a lot of things, although on rare occasions, I give zero fucks about everything.

 

[Arylett Charnoa]

I am one of the most anxious, neurotic individuals one will meet. Whilst I don't have any breathing or panic attacks quite like that, thankfully, my heart constantly pounds in fear at the most simple of tasks. For instance, I'm kind of sick today. So I decided to call in tommorow for work. But I procrastinated on it for a bit, and as I waited for my boss to answer, I was very anxious. Yet everything turned out all right, as it tends to.

My reason for anxiety is usually in regards to talking to other people. I always think they're going to yell at me if I even slightly object or break a status quo. People judging me is a fear I've had instilled in childhood, by my parents, who were highly judgemental. Even posting here and seeing others' reactions gives me paranoia, which is part of why I tend not to return to threads. I'm afraid someone's going to say something bad if I was particularly truthful. And same thing if I am conversing with others via private or visitor message. I am very avoidant and afraid of seeing their responses, particularly if I decide to reveal my true self rather than speak mindlessly. Luckily, since I've started taking my medication, my anxiety levels have decreased by a lot. Though my heart still pounds and I feel horrible, it's a lot easier to push that aside and do things rather than run away and be avoidant. Though it's still difficult in general.

But I am also neurotic about time waste, not doing things at the right time, and a person I depend on randomly dying out of nowhere and leaving me all alone. If I'm not interacting with someone else and fearing them, I'm fearing what's going to happen to me in life. Time... the clock ticking away... it always eludes me. I don't want my short time in this world to be up. Nor do I want my loved ones' time taken away from them prematurely. My mind is just a very uneasy place, and I constantly have to force it to relax. It's... not a peaceful existence, mine. But it has its advantages. Because of my paranoia, I tend to use it in stories to make some villains who are ridiculously elaborate and thoughtful in their plots, patching up most holes that the heroes could beat them with and making things more interesting. In general, because I overthink everything and think that someone is scrutinizing me constantly with a microscope, I can avoid a lot of plot holes.

 

[Ruma]

They say anxiety disorders come in 3s. So, yeah I'm a pretty anxious person. D; Sometimes it's crazy, but if I'm taking care of myself and being aware of things and working through them, then it's definitely manageable.

 

[Kydeka]

It's hard to rate because it will always feel worse to the person experiencing it.
To me it feels like 8-10 most days, but it could easily just feel like its worse than it is.
I've had it for quite a few years of my life and I've hit a wall of it lately that doesn't want to shift, even with medication.

 

[Hikamaru]

I'm probably the most anxious one on this forum, since I'm around 8-9 on the scale here and most of is due to my autism, for similar reasons as The Fangirl said. I tend to feel very insecure and often in fear because I'm forced into doing too much hard work that takes a heavy toll on my body.

I was also badly affected by bullying when I was in school, and it's one of the major causes of my anti-social issues. I know how bad the suffering is because most of the time I try to lock myself away in my own room and never often try to go into the outside world for fear I'd get a panic attack or suffer an altercation. My brother is also a pain and he adds to my anxiety due to him being someone who constantly mocks females and likes enslaving them.

 

[creamsauce]

I suffer from anxiety but I've recently gone back on medication and it's worked wonders. The lingering sense of panic I always feel has more or less disappeared.
I get pretty bad panic attacks, like 2-3 times a week, but hopefully that will change soon.