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What causes you anxiety?
What are the things that cause you anxiety, things that cause you so much anxiety, you can't handle it?
For me, it's when it's easy to get in trouble. What about you? |
Anxiety is allowing a fear to control you. I'm so type A I never let anything control me. :lol:
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Oh god... a few things, but I'm very good at avoiding things that trigger them these days.
Fear of failure and being in situations that I can't control are the two biggies. I'm a lot better at managing it than I used to be though. :) Nothing causes me more anxiety than knowing that there's a spider in the room and there's nobody else around to kill it for me though! :lol: |
Fear of failure is a big one for me. Also family drama is another one that causes me anxiety, but I do my best not to let it get to me.
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Everything. I stay frustrated all the time because life is sort of a bitch, lol. This leads to a lot of anger and a lot of anxiety. You just have to dust yourself off, get out of bed and move on. It sucks but that's life.
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Any situation that means that I have to get up and speak in front of people.
You know that Feeling you get when all sense and intelligence leaves your mind at once in a matter of 2 seconds? Yeah, that's what it feels like to me. |
Money. There's never enough of it, and it goes out faster than it comes in.
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Making mistakes.
We all make them, but when I catch myself making one [especially in front of loved ones or people I know look up to me; not so much strangers] I beat myself up endlessly for it after I'm done trying to get my fears and heart rate to go down. Even little things like calling somebody by the wrong name or using the wrong word in a sentence -- things everybody does -- I get irrationally anxious over. Anybody remember in the 2k3 episode "Hunted" when Leonardo steps on a land mine by accident and beats himself the **** up over it, repeatedly calling himself stupid for making a perfectly normal mistake? That's me. That moment really stood out and spoke to me because I do the exact same thing no matter the severity of the mistake. My brain won't let me forget a stupid thing I did 5 years ago. |
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School. I'm always afraid I'm gonna fail and end up being homeless or getting some crap job for 7 bucks an hour and I'm gonna barley have any money and I won't be anybody. School makes me afraid I'm gonna end up like that.
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Roaches. Not that I have them, but that some lawbreaking doofus will bring them. I live in an apartment complex that is spread out over several buildings, and sometimes we get a family moving in that 'insists' on having extra people move in (even if it's breaking the lease, and it's most often done covertly.) Well, in one building one tenet family did that, and these extra people (turns out they were another family) brought roaches with them. Management has been having a heck of a time getting rid of these things, because as soon as they treat one apartment in that building, the roaches move to another one in that block. I don't know if they have finally gotten rid of them (I hope so) but it's just a pain that some people insist on breaking the rules, and then other people end up having to suffer for it.
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Religious / political extremism and fanaticism, which will stop at nothing
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drawing or creating art for someone else....I always feel like i'm going to disappoint them....
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Am I allowed to say everything? I'm ALWAYS stressed or anxious about something. Most of it is because of my OCD and panic problems though....
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Yeah, more or less everything for me too.
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It's why I don't want a religious funeral/service when I die. I don't want God or Jesus or anybody mentioned at all. My ghost will come back to haunt the people responsible if that happens! :tlol: |
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When i am walking up to someone very important, like a professor, or businessman to talk to them.
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Yep, I'm the same way when it comes to religion as well. Not a fan of it and never will be. Same goes for politics, and though these things don't cause me complete anxiety, they do make me uncomfortable as well.
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Certain social situations make me anxious actually; mainly anything where I'm alone and there are groups of straight men around. I also really don't like to be in environments where lots of rowdy straight men and women are drinking.
That's totally not meant to come off as heterophobia, so I hope it doesn't offend anyone - I've been physically assaulted before for "looking like a dyke", so I'm a little gun-shy in those types of situations. I used to have really really awful social anxiety in general, but I'm a lot better at managing it than I used to be. So yeah, my sympathies to you Netkeeper and HayaMika! |
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On that topic, I get nervous expressing my sexuality around people since its so much different than everyone else. This may be weird to say here but I am Asexual-Panromantic. I have people tell me that its wrong and I can't know I am this way unless I have actually tried it. Its just so hard to get people to understand that you don't have to be sexually active to show love towards another person but not many people get that so it makes me nervous to tell people about who I am in fear that they will push me off as weird or assume that I am sex-repulsed (which is NOT the case) and unloving. Another problem is that there are people out there dumb enough to ask me if I reproduce like a plant and while they are right, Asexual does mean that in Biology it does not mean the same thing as a sexuality... And last time I checked humans DO NOT reproduce like plants... |
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I have no idea what it's like to be discriminated, but I can imagine how hard it can be. Many people still look down upon homosexuality, from what I notice. Me and most of the people I hang out with don't have anything against them, but I've met others who go as far as claiming they'd disown a son if he turned out gay. And those weren't old people but people in their 20s. Kinda sad, actually. |
That whatever looks you have is DECLINING daily. Your SMV is decreasing by virtue of you breathing. You don't have a whole lifetime to date. You have up until your late 20s. The peak of your looks isn't normally distributed halfway, around 40yo. You peak around 18. By 35, you're GARBAGE but still have like 45 years left to witness your skyrocketting decline. 45 years left of EXISTENCE, paying taxes, balding, working, losing appeal.
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If anything hits a fundamentalist (of any area) vs. Mainstream issue. I'm in a mainstream denomination. We welcome everyone to our services and if you are a good and honest person, no one cares what you do otherwise. |
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Thanks for the kind words Prowler and Mika! :)
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(A bit about my orientation spoilered so nobody has to read my off-topicness): Spoiler:
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And on that note I just wanted to say that while encouraging abstinence is fine if coupled with actual legitimate sex education, the fact that schools teach abstinence INSTEAD OF legitimate sex education is such a huge, huge problem and I hate it. Not saying that's what you're talking about, but it's a related subject. Quote:
Also some LGBT talk for you under the spoiler. Spoiler:
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Hey Mika and Net (and any other GLBT, QUILTBAG, poly, pan, non-normative or otherwise minority sexuality or gender groups) - I made a thread for us so we can talk about stuff like this... I'm really enjoying the discussion but I was feeling bad for derailing the OP's thread. :)
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sho...12#post1293112 |
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(I have to stop here and explain that I do not belive the bible is literal truth and am quite fond of science and my denomination is cool with that) Don't be ashamed to be Bi and Christian and don't be afraid to explore what you need to explore. The way I figure, God knows better than man and if He allowed all sorts of orientations to evolve in folks, why should I or anyone judge? My only exception to this is when someone's sexual attraction is to kids or those who are mentally unable to consent. Whatever else, as long as its consenting adults, I say go for it. God loves everyone. No one is going to Hell for loving someone who loves them back. |
What causes me anxiety:
- When my beloved Cat acts strange and I don´t know if he is ill or something else - stage fright - really big spiders - Jelly fish (I can´t stand touching them!!!!!wobbling creatures of hell!) - The fear when you made a decission and you think that it might have been the wrong one |
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. Hope we don't have to see Cockroach Terminator again for a bit in TMNT btw. haha Failure is another big one. Money too, of course. |
Spiders. Definitely spiders. I can't even look at photos of them without squealing. If I'm in a room and I see one, I have to demand someone come and kill it, and I refuse to leave the room/turn my back on it to go get help because what if I go back and I can't find it again and then at night it'll come creeping out to crawl on my face... YUG!
Also swimming in the ocean and being in swimming pools alone make me anxious... ever since childhood, I've had this ridonkulous fear that if I'm in a swimming pool alone and I turn my back, piranhas are going to swim out of the pool filter. I know it's absurd but damned if I can break the habit of nervously glancing back over my shoulder! And with the ocean, I get nervous because I can't see what's under me and oh god what if something touches my foot?! :teek::o:teek::o |
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I'd be surprised if we did see him (her?) as I think it was likely a true one shot. But yeah, it creeped me out also, just imagine having that thing mad at you! The only other time I've ever seen roaches featured in a big way was in Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, where one of the levels had you go into the sewers and abandoned subways of New York and fight mutants that a mad scientist was creating. One of these mutant types were cockroaches. The worst things about these things was that there were egg cases everywhere, so you know they were at the point they were multiplying. I think the other anxiety that I have (shared with Kanon) is my cat getting sick. Sometimes I worry about her accidentally ingesting a piece of plastic or rug fibers (she loves to pick at the rug for some reason when she's upset) and getting an intestinal blockage. I wish could pull up the rug, but since it's a rental, I can't do that. |
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