22 Quotes From People Who Have Anxiety _Can You Relate ?
To give people more insight into what it feels like to have Generalized Anxiety Disorder or Anxiety tendencies, we from Psych2go asked people who have GAD/anxiety tendencies what it feels like, and what bothers them most about having it. Anxiety affects everyone differently and because it’s deeply personal all quotes are made anonymous.
At the end of the article there will be
links to more information as well as links to help lines. If you
contributed, thank you for sharing your experience and we wish you a lot
of success on your way to improvement and recovery.
#1. "I
feel like I’m never able to relax. I just cannot let something go once it gets
into my head"
#2. "What
bothers me most ? That I cannot even fully enjoy the good days because I’m
worried that the next bad day is only hours away. support from my friends
has helped me a lot though"
#3. "I
have skipped parties so often, even with people I’ve known for years. Sometimes
I do go, but I still feel guilty for missing so many birthdays all the time.
Just the idea of being in a crowd makes me nervous, and I often end up
cancelling just before"
#4. "The
silliest thing I’ve ever done because of my anxiety was taking a later busstop.
The bus was really crowded and I had seat by the window (there was someone next
me) . I was so scared to ask people move out of the way so I could get
out, that I actually waited until two stops after the one I was supposed
to get off. Luckily for me a lot of people had to get off at that stop, but I
still had to walk back"
#5. "On
days when it’s really bad all the worrying only reinforces itself, if that
makes sense. Even when there’s nothing strange happening, I worry that I’m
missing something I SHOULD be worrying about, which only makes it worse.
Sometimes it’s really a downwards spiral"
#6. "I hardly ever talk about it. The worst thing is, when I finally gather the
courage to tell someone a tiny bit about it, people tell me to "just get
over it", like yes, I wish I could, you’re not really helping"
#7. "My
(social) anxiety causes me to never really trust people to like me. My anxiety
tells me “ah, they must be pretending, you’re so out of place here", "They’re
only being nice because they feel like they have to" and “When you didn’t
answer your phone yesterday they must have been offended, they’re angry at
you"
#8. "One
of the best comparisons I’ve ever heard about anxiety was "you’re always
walking around with an umbrella, even when it’s not raining". I am constantly
on edge, even when there is nothing to worry about"
#9. "My
heart already starts racing when they’re taking attendance at the start of
class, even though the most I’d have to say in that moment is ‘present’ or ‘I’m
here’. There are countless situations like that , seemingly insignificant, but
nerve wracking for me"
#10. "One
of the most annoying things; walking around a supermarket endlessly looking for
a certain thing, because I just cannot ask an employee"
#12. "I’m
constantly worried about whether I’m being too clingy, but on the other side I
am worried about not being social enough"
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