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30 Things That Anxiety Is


Anxiety is, planning a trip to Amsterdam and seeing a terrorist attack in your head
Anxiety is gripping your phone when seeing a grill on the road
Anxiety is feeling a fear of death when having to do a maths problem in class
Anxiety is thinking everyone hates you
Anxiety is struggling with your sex life because you constantly believe that you're pregnant
Anxiety is your train stopping and thinking that you're going to die due to a gunaman
Anxiety is having sensory overload in ikea
Anxiety is being constantly uncomfortable around people
Anxiety is your best friend not being online for longer than usual and your mind bombards you with images of you screaming at the news of their murder
Anxiety is your plane having a bump and you imagine yourself crashed, hanging off a tree with legs cut off
Anxiety is applying for a job and feeling sick about a detail you may have put down incorrectly
Anxiety is feeling ill about being asked questions when handing in your CV
Anxiety is not trying something in a video game because you're afraid of getting into trouble within it
Anxiety is constantly checking and rechecking you put the right phone number on your cv
Anxiety is being afraid of cameras
Anxiety is worrying about messing up your debs makeup a month beforehand
Anxiety is taking over a decade to be comfortable in your own home
Anxiety is feeling as if everyone is merely putting up with you
Anxiety is being preoccupied with what you think others are feeling
Anxiety is seeing people die in your dreams
Anxiety is having extreme emotions
Anxiety is having the ability to see every gory detail detailed by a newscaster
Anxiety is taking your exams so seriously, you forget to outside for three weeks because you're studying constantly
Anxiety is jumping at the song that woke you up every morning for school
Anxiety is having ruined nails
Anxiety is struggling to look people in the eye
Anxiety is feeling embarrassed about everything
Anxiety is being in a constant state of exhaustion
Anxiety is feeling anxious that you're not anxious enough for people to understand you have a problem
Anxiety is finding every real and imaginary flaw about yourself.

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This is only a small snapshot of what anxiety is. No wonder we're so strong.
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