I have anxiety about literally everything. My mom doesn’t believe me, nor does she think that I have any reason to be anxious about anything. So I made this list of all the reasons as to why I have anxiety! And no, this is not a joke.
Reasons I get anxiety:
- Someone smiled at me
- I panicked because someone smiled so I immediately looked away and now I’m thinking about how dumb I probably looked
- I’m trying out a new restaurant, and I don’t know what to order
- I don’t know how to pronounce something I want to order
- Thinking that I have no friends
- Someone tells me they don’t like cats
- Being in crowds
- Being alone
- Procrastinating on my assignments
- Bad weather
- Thinking that no one likes me
- Taking the dog outside when it’s dark
- Trying on clothes while shopping
- Trying to put change back into my wallet when there is someone waiting in line behind me
- Thinking that people are talking about me
- Thinking that I’m not smart enough
- Meeting new people
- Thinking I won’t get enough sleep
- Seeing someone subtweet and not knowing who it’s about
- Not being tan even though it’s winter
- Friends who try to play both sides of a situation
- Thinking about my past
- Thinking about my future
- Hearing Farrah from Teen Mom OG talk to her mother
- My grades
- Thinking that I’m not skinny enough
- The fact that I want to work out but have no motivation to do so
- Fears that I’ll mess something up
- Trying to talk to someone that I have nothing in common with
- Thinking that I’m not pretty enough
- Not being able to speak my mind when I know I need to
- When people tell me that I don’t understand something just because I’m not in the exact same situation as them
- Fear that I won’t know what I’m doing or how to do something
- Thinking that people are judging me
- Disappointing someone
- Going places by myself
- Thinking someone is using me for something
- When someone buys me something I don’t really like but have to pretend like I do
- Being around family or friends when politics are being discussed
- When people don’t text me back
- Being stopped in traffic when I’m by myself
I get anxiety about pretty much everything. Sometimes it passes within a few moments, but other times, it just lingers in my mind all day long. Some of the things I get anxiety about may seem silly, but I really do panic when they happen to me.
Anxiety is basically the anticipation of a future threat, which can be caused by literally anything. When this happens, my mind goes blank. I can’t focus, and I immediately don’t know what I’m supposed to do anymore.
I wish you all could have seen me when my first article was published. I couldn’t even share it to my own Facebook because I was terrified at what people would think or if the person I was talking about would see it. I had a panic attack, and I cried for two days. It took me about two weeks before I was able to actually put it on my Facebook wall, and even then, I didn’t share it on my own. I just shared it from another page because I still couldn’t make myself do it.
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