Things about anxiety that suck and I never see anybody talk about
Iâm just ranting from my own experience because Iâm frustrated. Feel free to rant about your own as well.
It causes freaking digestive problems because when in fight or flight your digestive system basically shuts down but guess what my fight or flight response is activated all the time so some weird stuff happens that I wonât get into.
Sometimes you lose circulation in your extremities so your fingers and lips and toes get numb or cold and it SUCKS
Youâre constantly taking short breaths and donât get any oxygen to your brain so I canât think at full capacity. Nice.
When you do finally take a moment to fill your lungs with enough air youâve been going so long without enough oxygen you feel dizzy and itâs very confusing.
Sometimes you donât even know what exactly youâre afraid of or you do know but canât articulate it so when people try to help and ask you to talk through it you canât and you feel like a doofus and get even more anxious
That weird trance you get into during and right after your breathing exercises that isnât meditation or hypnosis but itâs freaking weird.
When you finally calm down for the first time in weeks or months and being calm feels so foreign at this point you start lowkey freaking out because WHAT IS HAPPENING
Mildly dissociating and feeling nothing but knowing youâre anxious by the way your body is reacting
The chest pains that sometimes make it feel like youâre dying even when youâre not having a panic attack
Being tired like, all the time dude. From fighting your own body and brain. I need sleep.
When people assume you have depression because in many ways it can look similar from the outside but itâs not the same and itâs frustrating because you know you donât have depression and you canât speak for those that do
Those days when youâre scared of loud noises like an abused cat
Going partially nonverbal. Like, you can talk and fake your way through things, but the entire time itâs taking up all your concentration and willpower and it would be so much easier if you could just not talk for two days because talking is so frightening or youâre so tired itâs hard to talk.
That feeling near the end of a panic attack where itâs hard or nearly impossible to move and it feels like your body is made of lead
Crying and hiding in the corner wrapped up in a blanket very frightened because you accidentally burned dinner and it feels like everyone hates you now
The start of panic attacks where it feels like this isnât reality and you have to ask someone if this is real or constantly count your fingers or something.
When youâre about to do something that makes you anxious like talk to a secretary and suddenly itâs like thereâs an invisible rope pulling you away and you just nope out of there
Literally walking a mile out of your way to avoid talking to someone because youâre convinced youâll say something wrong.
Those weird looks you get sometimes when youâre quietly singing to calm yourself down, especially if youâre like me and nursery rhymes and simple songs are what you sing to calm yourself down. Like, an adult walking around quietly singing sing a song of sixpence has to look weird.
Not only can you sometimes tell you might get a panic attack that day, it has a taste. Thatâs right. A taste. Not just a feeling. A taste.
That weirdly calm voice your therapist uses that just seems⌠slightly creepy at times. It takes some getting used to. Espeally if your particular brand of anxiety makes you suspicious of people.
Thatâs all I could think of for now. Iâm a mess today. Like I said feel free to share your own.
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