Describe your anxiety

[Lookingforpeace]

It took me a long time to realise I had anxiety because my anxiety doesn't necessarily manifest itself in panic attacks.

I would describe my anxiety more like an intense dread.

how would you describe yours?

[BigJ]

Hi I have suffered from some bad anxiety where certain issues of negative thoughts occurred, and I'd seeked advice from a family memeber who said "think positive" and it's true that a positive mind set is a happy mind set. "If you fail, don't give up, get back up on that horse, and keep on riding". A family member I love had cancer and she has always had positive support as long you have that then nothing can stop you. Support is the best, seek advice from people you feel comfortable with or get medicial advice.

[flower_girl1]

For me it's like, someone with a gun is holding me and me alone hostage. My body has the physical symptoms of being terrified. But I'm just sitting at my desk, it's a normal day.

flower girl

[flower_girl1]

Hi Dorian,

this sounds like me. I'm so bubbly and talkative in small casual settings with people I know. But make it a club, a party, a wedding a work event, anything with strong social rules and a wall comes down. I suddenly have no idea how to act where to stand what to say. I start analysing everyone and trying to make sure I fit in, with actually doing anything to fit in. I hate it because it's really not who I am.

flower girl

[plaster]

Hi i suffer irrational thoughts and thoughts of self worth and something is always wrong like i am a freek....but i have a really supportive partner who is great she makes sure i know its all my mind putting these thoughts in and making me feel sick...short of breath and panic my mind feels like i cant think straight and i become almost zombish at time thank god for my meds i became a mess without them

[Bodey294]

my anxiety is fear of social situations where i don't know what to do or say inevitably making it awkward. even before social encounters, that is as much as i can avoid them, i feel like my head is racing, playing out every scenario that can go wrong and wind up fixated in a terrified daydream.

[MisterM]

Yeah I am the same, I fear talking to people I don't know well.
Dates I avoid as I fear not knowing what to say.
I see myself as bad at conversations with strangers.

[Bobby_B]

I feel the nerves in my fingers,hands down my arms. Feels unbearable, I cannot seem to make a complete sentence. Negative thoughts in my head won't go away. 

[Jellybabies]

• For me, my every day anxiety feels like a constant churning in my stomach, I feel nervous and worried, it's questioning everything I do and say in fear of judgement, my mind goes blank and I can't even start a conversation because the words are just not there,
• in severe anxiety my heart races, I get dizzy, I get hot all over and my palms sweat, sometimes Im even physically sick because my stomach churns so much, I can barely put 2 words together and have even had instances where I could not even force myself to enter a room full of people, because I was sure they were all looking at me in disgust, I get teary and very scared.

[Em_thatisme]

It feels like thoughts that have a negative effect on me churning away in my head all day. Sometimes I am aware of them but other times I am not.

 It feels like a heavy, full and frantically working mind. So that sometimes doing the smallest of activities is exhausting to keep focused and ignore the many lines of thinking in my mind.

It feels like hard work.

[Poppy]

I feel like my anxiety is like having a small child inside who has lost their mother but at the same time really wants to explore the world but is scared what it will be like.