Does anxiety make your emotions more heightened & easily triggered

[blues23]

I’m just wondering if this  new normal this new heightened I have less tolerance for nasty behaviour is because of  the anxiety , lately I feel like my world is throwing eggs at Me , and like the whole thing is gonna implode like the shattered glass effect and there’s only fragments of pieces holding together , I try to have positive thoughts, feelings but the eggs keep coming and it’s been like this for weeks now and it’s not getting any better. I’m trying to find restitution for my battled mind but it’s just not I have days of being flat as and maybe 1 day of calm before the next cycle comes in next cycle been down for a few days then calm and back to anxious the rest of the week.  Is this the new normal or is it part of the battle of anxiety? 

[therising]

Hi  blues23

What you're facing sounds absolutely horrible, something no one should have to face. It sounds like you're under such an enormous amount of stress. It's so unfair how everything begins to add up to feel just plain unbearable. I'm so glad you came here for support while looking for people who can relate.

I'm not sure if it will be relatable but last year I found myself in a position where everything began to add up while leading to a significant tipping point. I just didn't see that tipping point coming until I really began to feel it in a number of ways. I thought 'What is going on with me?'. I was a gal who'd managed the ins and outs of depression for decades and all of a sudden, at 52, I found myself trying to manage ongoing anxiety for the first time in my life. It was my daughter who mentioned General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS), while saying to me 'I don't think you realise just how much pressure you've been under'. She rattled off a list of things which led me to think 'No wonder I feel overwhelmed'. The 3rd stage of GAS (the exhaustion stage) was something I could completely relate to: Fatigue, burnout, depression, anxiety, decreased tolerance to stress, a sense of hopelessness etc. I though 'Okay, I'm going with that', my daughter's suggestion, and the reason being was because it offered me some relief. I was relieved to know how I was feeling wasn't entirely me, it was my body reacting to ongoing stress and some things in my life had to change. The scales had to be rebalanced.

I found another way of looking at things can be from a natural perspective. If you're the 'go to' person when it comes to managing everyone's problems, it can turn you into someone who can easily sense problems/challenges (sensitivity gained through practice). From the perspective of ability, if someone sat you amongst 10 people and mentioned they were having some everyday kinds of issues most people have, you might be the only one out of the 10 people who can really feel or sense all the challenges in that person's day. No one else may be sensitive enough to feel them as challenges. You then might say to that person 'You mentioned 3 issues in particular that stand out to me'. You say what you feel those are and the person suddenly wakes up to how much those things are actually impacting them. They might say 'How did you pick up on that?', to which you could say 'I could just feel them as issues'. Your nervous system gives you the ability to feel them.

So, you could say while sensing challenges through your nervous system can feel like a curse, especially when those challenges become overwhelming, it's your nervous system that gives you the ability to feel yourself or someone else in a challenge. My niece is super sensitive. She can walk into a room full of people and easily get a feel for who's stressed and what level of stress they're under, without anyone saying a word. She'd say they just give off vibes.

Are you feeling your stress and other people's stress, combined? Are you trying to relieve other people of stress too much for your own good? Are you feeling thoroughly exhausted? I imagine you can feel the people who need to be pulling their weight more, so that you don't have to suffer through feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders.