Things about anxiety that suck and I never see anybody talk about
Iām just ranting from my own experience because Iām 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 wonāt get into.
Sometimes you lose circulation in your extremities so your fingers and lips and toes get numb or cold and it SUCKS
Youāre constantly taking short breaths and donāt get any oxygen to your brain so I canāt think at full capacity. Nice.
When you do finally take a moment to fill your lungs with enough air youāve been going so long without enough oxygen you feel dizzy and itās very confusing.
Sometimes you donāt even know what exactly youāre afraid of or you do know but canāt articulate it so when people try to help and ask you to talk through it you canāt 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 isnāt meditation or hypnosis but itās 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 youāre anxious by the way your body is reacting
The chest pains that sometimes make it feel like youāre dying even when youāre 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 itās not the same and itās frustrating because you know you donāt have depression and you canāt speak for those that do
Those days when youāre 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 itās 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 youāre so tired itās hard to talk.
That feeling near the end of a panic attack where itās 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 isnāt reality and you have to ask someone if this is real or constantly count your fingers or something.
When youāre about to do something that makes you anxious like talk to a secretary and suddenly itās like thereās 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 youāre convinced youāll say something wrong.
Those weird looks you get sometimes when youāre quietly singing to calm yourself down, especially if youāre 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. Thatās right. A taste. Not just a feeling. A taste.
That weirdly calm voice your therapist uses that just seemsā¦ slightly creepy at times. It takes some getting used to. Espeally if your particular brand of anxiety makes you suspicious of people.
Thatās all I could think of for now. Iām a mess today. Like I said feel free to share your own.
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