What causes you anxiety?

[Metalwolf]

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

... all I can say is that it's a good thing Raph doesn't live in your apartment complex - the poor guy would be a nervous wreck!

I don't know if he'd be a complete nervous wreck since my apartment is in an uninfested block, but I know he'd be going off at the person who did happen to bring them in. From what I've heard, those things can be a royal pain to get rid of in a complex. I know when I thought someone had brought them in, I would look in the kitchen in the middle of the night with a flashlight to catch any early ones that did happen to make it to my apartment. Fortunately I never found any, but I've been lucky to be in a block with considerate neighbors.

Originally Posted by Netkeeper

Too much being told that I'm a slight against God simply by existing or that my "condition" isn't "natural", or that "God didn't make me this way" makes me anxious around many religious people.

That sounds like a Southern Church thing, I've never heard of anybody having that in the Northern Churches, at least in PA. They don't condone relationships or anything like that, but they've never went and told someone they were gross or whatever either. I think it's because they see it mainly as feelings that the person simply has, and that they are encouraged to practice sexual abstinence. Nobody ends up feeling upset over it or excited, and even then pretty much it's like a big 'Meh' or 'Yeah, so?' when someone announces they're gay (even the local gay population seems to be that way too.) Like I said, it's not because people are more tolerant, it's more like people don't seem to be as excitable over that kind of thing as Southerners. I'm wondering if it isn't due to the South having a bigger population of fundamentalists?