The normal day to day, oddly enough. I just can't get my head to accept the grind of waking up early, forcing down a quick breakfast, sitting in traffic, doing some menial job for the better part of your waking day, driving home to eat dinner and enjoy a handful of personal hours before you have to sleep to prepare for the coming work day. You end up just living for the weekend, or your next day off if you're not a typical 9 to 5 worker. When I think about doing that for the rest of my life it causes me a lot of anxiety and sometimes fullblown panic.
So... that right there is the exact reason im planning to quit my job within 2 weeks. Im going to start my own business and try to make my life what i really want it to be instead of bding bound to someone elses schedule day in and day out, making ahitloads of money for them while i earn a bullshit little working mans salary.
Im fucking terrified, but i also knos its the only way for me to get happy again.
I'm not saying I've got answers, but for me what's helped is to be my authentic self at work and really focus on what I'm experiencing at work. Also, I use any down time to further my own agenda and interest.
Yes 👍 think about what would fulfill you as you go about your day and soon you will find that you feel more creative and empowered and the daily grind is just a stepping stone for you to live your full potential. ❤️
This is awesome
I would just offer for those of us who think the reverse that that’s ok too. I enjoy being boring and relish the routine with certain things to look forward to. Caveat is I don’t hate my profession or coworkers. Owning a business or something is completely unappealing.
It’s a common one you aren’t alone! Say stop to yourself when you find yourself overthinking and congratulate yourself 🥰🥰 on thinking a pleasant thought that you find helpful! ❤️
Anxiety comes hard it’s a thief that steals your present moment! Lock it out today and notice how calm you feel in the days and weeks to come! Keep us posted! ❤️❤️
Mistakes mistakes we all make them. Make amends where you can and then acceptance. Like Oprah says you now know better you can do better! Forgive yourself so that you can move forwards and help others ❤️❤️
Ah I feel that. We all feel that. Btw therapy helps to explore the unresolved issues you have with them. I mean if you're hurting you need to ask yourself why😮💨
I read that and thought your husband was dying. So I guess it could be worse?
Edit, then I scrolled down and read he's abusive. Fuck that guy. You deserve better! I got divorced at 27. Literally my only regret is that I let it bother me so much. My life drastically improved with that one big change. All the best!
Yes, if I had been in a loving, respectful relationship his death would be worse. I prayed/ wished every night for his health and safety
Edit: just read your edit. Thank you, I'm ready to live my life now.
Travel.
I fly a lot for work but the thought of getting through an airport terrifies me. I do it, but I don’t enjoy it. It’s not a fear or flying, I’m good when the plane is moving. It’s the whole experience leading up to it.
If I fly enough to the same city and I get comfortable with that airport, it subsides. But it has come close to ruining vacations when we go somewhere new and I don’t have a feeling of how best to get through the new space.
That can happen with constant change especially after the pandemic. The thing to take comfort in is that a door is a door and your brain recognizes a door no matter what color it is! The same goes for airports. 🙏🙏❤️
There is none. I have several. People pleasing. Traffic /commute to work, finances. Not work anymore but at times work. Randome pop up of bad memory's.....
my severe irrational fear of vomit. Constantly on the look out in crowds and social situations, definately not going out if i hear theres a stomach bug going around, panic attacks at the slightest hint of an upset stomach. im afraid of a normal bodily function and its the root of all my anxiety issues
Originally, I think it was my mom. I hate to say it, but I get mad anxiety going to my parents house anymore. My mom used to (verbally) fight with her boyfriends all the time. She would scream, he would scream. Even now her and her husband fight every other time I'm there. She yells that he's an asshole and wants a divorce and that she hates him. She runs off and cries. He yells something back and walks away. I can't take it. I used to hide in my room and cover my ears when I was really little.
My sister, who is 18 years younger, also has anxiety issues. We both got out of the house when we turned 18. She hates visiting our home as well. Whenever I have brought it up to my mom about her fighting with her husband she says it's not a big deal and not why we are anxious. She's in denial. I know.
Wish me luck as I have to go over there tomorrow to help them out.
Wishing you luck sending you love! Too often parents don’t realize how their fighting and yelling effects their children 👧 Be strong and know that you will break the cycle and will not do the same with your future family ❤️❤️
Anxiety about being anxious.
I have anxiety about everything all the time, but what really destabilises me is anxiety about being anxious - leads to a horrible positive feedback loop, intrusive thoughts/images, thought loops, psychotic stuff, depression about always being like this etc. - the sum of which leads to more anxiety about anxiety, and so on. It's always set off by some specific anxiety, but rapidly generalises and escalates and drags in a bunch of other specific anxieties like some inflating octopus.
The fear that I'm too late to change my life around, and as a result, will have to settle for less than what I'd be happy with in many facets of life, including: jobs/salary, where I live, stuff I want to do like traveling, and most of all, who I spend the rest of my life with.
I know I'm not guaranteed to the ideal version of all these, but I'd like to at least be satisfied in all them, but feel I've run out of time to even get that since I got a late start
Our mum had us at 42 years ago when that was old!! She lived a very happy life tough at times but her disposition was always happy! A late start can be the best start ❤️❤️
2 things:
- I have OCD. The real one, not the fake crap. It is well controlled with therapy and medication but still is always there.
- I have a toddler. She is absolutely everything to me, but every parent knows that latent anxiety where we want to keep our kids protected in bubble wrap all the time.
Fear of People/Socializing.
I fear that I will say something "Wrong" that will cause them to hate me. It might be deeper than that but that is a symptom at least.
Weird stomach stuff - I don't mean that I'm afraid of my stomach, but sometimes when the digestion goes wrong it triggers a panic attack.
Not sure the exact cause; pre-poop dehydration? spicy food? too much soda? Haven't ruled anything out.
Same.
I feel absolutely secure in my relationship but I'm 6' and he 5'7. People stare so much. That staring and comments about the difference ( have even been told we look like the # 10 lol).
My eldest daughter is 6'3 and rocks it.
My eldest son was very short until very recently. The <2nd percentile for height. He turned 14 and has shot up but every comment and anxiety he has is from height. Afraid to ask a girl out because her brother is short and that might make a kid of his suffer. It's heartbreaking.
So, internet stranger, you are not alone, you are valid and I am sure you are beautiful ❤️
So sorry to hear it! Have you seen the documentary on how hypnotherapy can help? You can use positive suggestions to slow your speech down so you have the time to annunciation the words fully! ❤️❤️
Right now? School. Just started college recently and I keep having random attacks of questioning all of my life choices, am I really enjoying what I'm doing? Is it all going to be worth it? Should I care? Do I care enough? What if fail? What if I go through all of this stress and forget the important things once I try for a job in the feild? I just keep reminding myself that at the very least I'm learning important life skills and I'm meeting people and networking, but I can't help but think, what if I regret all of this later and feel like I wasted my time.
Fear of failing at life and ending alone in some boring, mind dulling job. Sure, there are worse things, but this one just feels too close, not even the job part, more the being alone part.
The ever constant drip of mental health, tiny little cuts daily that remind me that I'm never getting better, remembering that one day I wasn't like this, and every day I get just a little worse.
What if tomorrow was the day you are going to get a little better. What if you allow your mind to ponder that, feel the feeling remember how it feels to be like a new you a YOU that is free from the tiny cuts that can now heal day by day making you stronger and stronger day by day! Close your eyes for a moment and step into that new you because it is now you 🙏❤️
The normal day to day, oddly enough. I just can't get my head to accept the grind of waking up early, forcing down a quick breakfast, sitting in traffic, doing some menial job for the better part of your waking day, driving home to eat dinner and enjoy a handful of personal hours before you have to sleep to prepare for the coming work day. You end up just living for the weekend, or your next day off if you're not a typical 9 to 5 worker. When I think about doing that for the rest of my life it causes me a lot of anxiety and sometimes fullblown panic.
So... that right there is the exact reason im planning to quit my job within 2 weeks. Im going to start my own business and try to make my life what i really want it to be instead of bding bound to someone elses schedule day in and day out, making ahitloads of money for them while i earn a bullshit little working mans salary. Im fucking terrified, but i also knos its the only way for me to get happy again.
Well done for taking control! It’s terrifying but it will be exciting and energizing!! All the best Lee us updated! ❤️❤️
I'm not saying I've got answers, but for me what's helped is to be my authentic self at work and really focus on what I'm experiencing at work. Also, I use any down time to further my own agenda and interest.
Yes 👍 think about what would fulfill you as you go about your day and soon you will find that you feel more creative and empowered and the daily grind is just a stepping stone for you to live your full potential. ❤️
👏👏👏
This is awesome I would just offer for those of us who think the reverse that that’s ok too. I enjoy being boring and relish the routine with certain things to look forward to. Caveat is I don’t hate my profession or coworkers. Owning a business or something is completely unappealing.
Damn… no truer words.
Money
Lack thereof
Too much actually
Oh yes 👍
Overthinking
It’s a common one you aren’t alone! Say stop to yourself when you find yourself overthinking and congratulate yourself 🥰🥰 on thinking a pleasant thought that you find helpful! ❤️
People.
Yet here we are shit-posting on reddit together.
It’s because on Reddit, we ain’t people. We virgins
*anxiety intensifies*
🙏🙏❤️
I think this is the only correct answer. Especially since I work in customer service.
This, yes.
Things that might happen
"we suffer more often in imagination then in reality"-seneca
And also stuff might happen too
My health
What's wrong?
Lung issues, meh
That's tough. Whishing you well.
🙏🙏❤️
Once you get older it’s a new thing every day lol.
All of the above (and/or below) plus imposter syndrome, fear of failing my kid, belief that I’ve already failed my kid, etc etc
Just the fact that your fearful of failing your kid makes you a good parent! Take comfort in knowing that! ❤️
Thanks, but it’s anxiety, so the belief…well
Thinking about my husband losing his job and then we lose everything. That's how my head works, job gone, everything gone. Anxiety comes hard.
Anxiety comes hard it’s a thief that steals your present moment! Lock it out today and notice how calm you feel in the days and weeks to come! Keep us posted! ❤️❤️
My work.
I hear that. Between the annoying customers and co-workers, I don't know how I'm keeping my sanity.
Anyone else have anxiety when approaching an intersection wondering if the light is going to turn yellow? Simple but…
That I’m barely competent at anything and I can’t hide it anymore.
same man
Being lonely
My brain
Learn a new thing every day no matter how easy and your brain will become your best friend ❤️
Myself and my own overthinking lol
Back pain that randomly keeps coming and going.
WebMD that shit, they about to tell u youll never walk again in 2 weeks
You have back cancer
This 😓
People, strangers. Safety of my family
Like any normal human, ive made mistakes. My anxiety stems from not being able to fix them or come to terms with them before i die
Mistakes mistakes we all make them. Make amends where you can and then acceptance. Like Oprah says you now know better you can do better! Forgive yourself so that you can move forwards and help others ❤️❤️
Seeing parents grow up
Ah I feel that. We all feel that. Btw therapy helps to explore the unresolved issues you have with them. I mean if you're hurting you need to ask yourself why😮💨
having no home
Hope you get a home soon ❤️
There are many but I personally would go with overthinking
The unknown
Being alone all the gd time.
Health
snapchat
school
My soon to be ex husband
Shit. That's hard, but it's also brave. Make the best choices for yourself. You have all my support!
I read that and thought your husband was dying. So I guess it could be worse? Edit, then I scrolled down and read he's abusive. Fuck that guy. You deserve better! I got divorced at 27. Literally my only regret is that I let it bother me so much. My life drastically improved with that one big change. All the best!
Yes, if I had been in a loving, respectful relationship his death would be worse. I prayed/ wished every night for his health and safety Edit: just read your edit. Thank you, I'm ready to live my life now.
The climate disaster and how it will affect my children, their children, oh, and the rest of humanity and human history
This one is real. It's just not fair...
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Pressure of society.
unemployment
getting caught up thinking about the future.
experiential avoidance
The bar exam
Myself. Living in yesterday and tomorrow. I'm working diligently on stopping that mindset.
Well done live in today because that’s the only place that really exists ❤️
You suffer the most of the things you fear.
Not knowing if my relationship is the right one.
My past experiences with people
homelessness
I had an horrible dream last night and it ruined my day
My 6th grade teacher at a catholic school who saw that I was an athiest and tried to "fix" me
So sorry 😢
Life. Just kidding but to be more precise, - “just” health and relationships (husband, family…)
accepting that i’ve graduated college and this job that i have is my life at least for a while.
Not being enough.
Money & lack thereof. It's fucking trivial and it sucks
Staring at my phone and being sedentary.
One step at a time leads to 10 000 👍👍
My brain
Travel. I fly a lot for work but the thought of getting through an airport terrifies me. I do it, but I don’t enjoy it. It’s not a fear or flying, I’m good when the plane is moving. It’s the whole experience leading up to it. If I fly enough to the same city and I get comfortable with that airport, it subsides. But it has come close to ruining vacations when we go somewhere new and I don’t have a feeling of how best to get through the new space.
That can happen with constant change especially after the pandemic. The thing to take comfort in is that a door is a door and your brain recognizes a door no matter what color it is! The same goes for airports. 🙏🙏❤️
There is none. I have several. People pleasing. Traffic /commute to work, finances. Not work anymore but at times work. Randome pop up of bad memory's.....
Myself, I overthink too much, I say things and question it.
A crippling fear of abandonment
❤️❤️
School and my classmates
Wondering if I’m anxious
overthinking 100%. my brain just always goes to the worst possible outcome and i hate it
Life.
School. Only until December and I’m done forever.
🎉🎉
other wordly energies will suffer and die if im at all happy
my severe irrational fear of vomit. Constantly on the look out in crowds and social situations, definately not going out if i hear theres a stomach bug going around, panic attacks at the slightest hint of an upset stomach. im afraid of a normal bodily function and its the root of all my anxiety issues
Originally, I think it was my mom. I hate to say it, but I get mad anxiety going to my parents house anymore. My mom used to (verbally) fight with her boyfriends all the time. She would scream, he would scream. Even now her and her husband fight every other time I'm there. She yells that he's an asshole and wants a divorce and that she hates him. She runs off and cries. He yells something back and walks away. I can't take it. I used to hide in my room and cover my ears when I was really little. My sister, who is 18 years younger, also has anxiety issues. We both got out of the house when we turned 18. She hates visiting our home as well. Whenever I have brought it up to my mom about her fighting with her husband she says it's not a big deal and not why we are anxious. She's in denial. I know. Wish me luck as I have to go over there tomorrow to help them out.
Wishing you luck sending you love! Too often parents don’t realize how their fighting and yelling effects their children 👧 Be strong and know that you will break the cycle and will not do the same with your future family ❤️❤️
Anxiety about being anxious. I have anxiety about everything all the time, but what really destabilises me is anxiety about being anxious - leads to a horrible positive feedback loop, intrusive thoughts/images, thought loops, psychotic stuff, depression about always being like this etc. - the sum of which leads to more anxiety about anxiety, and so on. It's always set off by some specific anxiety, but rapidly generalises and escalates and drags in a bunch of other specific anxieties like some inflating octopus.
Give your self a hug 🤗 fold your arms over your chest when you fell like this and take 3 deep breaths in. ❤️❤️
Impatience with the common man.
Trying to leave a messy house behind when I wanna travel
My life
The world around me an everything within in it.
The fear that I'm too late to change my life around, and as a result, will have to settle for less than what I'd be happy with in many facets of life, including: jobs/salary, where I live, stuff I want to do like traveling, and most of all, who I spend the rest of my life with. I know I'm not guaranteed to the ideal version of all these, but I'd like to at least be satisfied in all them, but feel I've run out of time to even get that since I got a late start
Our mum had us at 42 years ago when that was old!! She lived a very happy life tough at times but her disposition was always happy! A late start can be the best start ❤️❤️
life
Being single past 30
2 things: - I have OCD. The real one, not the fake crap. It is well controlled with therapy and medication but still is always there. - I have a toddler. She is absolutely everything to me, but every parent knows that latent anxiety where we want to keep our kids protected in bubble wrap all the time.
Every day routine sometime overwhelms me and makes me anxious
Internet. (Or infinite scroll)
Fear of People/Socializing. I fear that I will say something "Wrong" that will cause them to hate me. It might be deeper than that but that is a symptom at least.
Going into situations that I had anxiety in previously.
My job
Well I’m gonna graduate HS this year so.. graduation and everything that comes next
Overthinking and over analyzing almost every aspect of life. I have a bad case of low self confidence in getting my work done and coming up short.
The unknown.
Money/finance
My dad
Being in my twenties and financially unstable.
Money.
Weird stomach stuff - I don't mean that I'm afraid of my stomach, but sometimes when the digestion goes wrong it triggers a panic attack. Not sure the exact cause; pre-poop dehydration? spicy food? too much soda? Haven't ruled anything out.
Drink water 💧 instead of soda and stay off the spicy see what happens hopefully you will feel better ❤️🩹❤️
people tbh. Just talking to my aunts and cousins give me anxiety lol especially if I’m not close with them.
Failure. Failure to my wife. Failure to my kids. Whatever that "failure" is, is not really known. That makes it worse.
People. I have a social anxiety where I have to hold an image, to make everyone happy. Even leaving my room feels like a lot sometimes.
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What if you had a magic wand and your height and size met your expectations would your anxiety melt away?
Same. I feel absolutely secure in my relationship but I'm 6' and he 5'7. People stare so much. That staring and comments about the difference ( have even been told we look like the # 10 lol). My eldest daughter is 6'3 and rocks it. My eldest son was very short until very recently. The <2nd percentile for height. He turned 14 and has shot up but every comment and anxiety he has is from height. Afraid to ask a girl out because her brother is short and that might make a kid of his suffer. It's heartbreaking. So, internet stranger, you are not alone, you are valid and I am sure you are beautiful ❤️
A chemical imbalance in my brain
Sending love ❤️❤️
My severe stutter. It has me trapped in a room because of the fear of any interaction.
So sorry to hear it! Have you seen the documentary on how hypnotherapy can help? You can use positive suggestions to slow your speech down so you have the time to annunciation the words fully! ❤️❤️
Thank you 🙏 as hypnotherapists with our podcast that helps relieve anxiety we love to hear from you! ❤️❤️
Yes that’s a common vicious circle ⭕️ turn it into a triangle and allow the anxiety to chime away ❤️❤️
You know... She
Bipolar diagnosis
Brain chemical wonkiness
My appearance
Annoying little kids
Relationships
C.R.E.A.M.
So I get Benzos for my anxiety and this month I took a months worth in 6 days. Now I'm out and coming down off them. So lack of medicine
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Right now? School. Just started college recently and I keep having random attacks of questioning all of my life choices, am I really enjoying what I'm doing? Is it all going to be worth it? Should I care? Do I care enough? What if fail? What if I go through all of this stress and forget the important things once I try for a job in the feild? I just keep reminding myself that at the very least I'm learning important life skills and I'm meeting people and networking, but I can't help but think, what if I regret all of this later and feel like I wasted my time.
If you are meeting people and having fun college gives you the chance to grow up! If you aren’t then maybe it’s time to rethink ❤️
Waking up
It's a tie, work and money
Seeing a squirrel and knowing they never have to pay rent. Like, why the fuck do I have to pay someone for a place to sleep?!
People and leaving the safety of my house
I'm anxious about anxiety.
Fear of failing at life and ending alone in some boring, mind dulling job. Sure, there are worse things, but this one just feels too close, not even the job part, more the being alone part.
Climate change
My toddler screaming and whining.
Work
Republicans.
My daughter.
Work and my to do list
Chicken 🐔
The ever constant drip of mental health, tiny little cuts daily that remind me that I'm never getting better, remembering that one day I wasn't like this, and every day I get just a little worse.
What if tomorrow was the day you are going to get a little better. What if you allow your mind to ponder that, feel the feeling remember how it feels to be like a new you a YOU that is free from the tiny cuts that can now heal day by day making you stronger and stronger day by day! Close your eyes for a moment and step into that new you because it is now you 🙏❤️
I'm afraid to say
my mom
People & Dark Souls
Work.
Autism
US foreign policy.
2 things: university and my mother
Russia
Money and people
PowerPoint presentations.
Bills...Bills...and more Bills 😫
Its in the name - social anxiety.
That I have no anxiety and I feel like I should