I’ve been at 5 since I was 12.
In ER because I thought I was having a heart attack, and it looks like it was a panic attack instead.
Benzos are nice BTW. I can see why the docs can’t and shouldn’t prescribe them for regular use.
Steady 4
How do you go through life like that?
Not the original commentator, but: barely
Most days it’s a 3 or 4. Today is a 1.
Anyone notice their is no ‘zero’ in that scale.
There’s no zero… :(
Zero anxiety and you’d never leave the couch
I’ve been between 3 and 4. This week I felt a greater intensity of discomfort. It’s hard for me to get out of bed. Despite that, I’ve been going to walk every day, at least 1 hour… and I’ve read a lot: in the last 30 days I’ve read about 6 books. Still, my activity beyond that is zero, so I feel certainly bad about it. The “work society” is sinking you, whether you’re part of it or not.
I never got past 1.
3-4 yesterday the whole day… seemingly for no fucking reason and knowing that made it worse.
What does it mean when you feel 1 most of the time but occasionally instantly jump to 4/5 as stressors built up without your awareness?
Cause that’s me. Everything’s fine till it isn’t and I don’t see it coming
For me, that feeling comes from dissociating. Anxiety is so viscerally physically uncomfortable that i try to avoid it at all costs (which leads to feeling anxious about feeling anxious lmfao meta-anxiety ftw lol). Part of that avoidance entails not even mentally getting close to the triggers. So when they become unavoidable or pop up unexpectedly, it can feel pretty drastic. I feel like my avoidance of thinking about things is probably affecting my ability to understand, and the unknown is a wellspring of anxiety. Maybe it’s different for you, or maybe this helps you understand yourself better. Either way i hope things get easier for you.
2-3
I get anxiety just by looking at the awful job someone did filling the title background.
4±1. But 5 is rare
Fucking hell, I’m tired of being dysfunctional
3 is basically my baseline, but I never truly reach 5, so I’ve got that going on for me I guess.
How do you cope with it? Or are you also just planning to get used to it?
To be fair it is more of a 2 when I’m doing good, but with the amount of shit going on lately I rarely am. So I’m planning to get used to it and maybe see a shrink to get some meds.
I have been at 4 before. My problem was I didn’t even realize it was anxiety.
until recently, I was a 7 or 8, but now I think I’m about 2
6 years ago I was at 5. But I’ve slowly but surely been climbing. Today I find myself slightly above the chart, and I’ve been here for a year or two. Looking back I find it unbelievable that I lived at stage 4 for four years straight.
It gets better.
Been living in stage 3-4 for too long now. Comments like these are one of the only things giving me hope. Used to be a lot more cynical but now i’ll take anything I can get. Thank you
