Hello, anxiety!

You probably don’t realize how much anxiety affects your life.

Anxiety makes you be on edge all the time. You can’t allow yourself to take a break and relax, you’re always on the move, always doing something, keeping yourself busy, preparing for something, rushing back and forth. And yes, you are always looking for a catch and expecting a bad scenario.

Anxiety puts special reality distorting glasses on you. They make you focus on the negative and see a catastrophe in a tiniest problem. And you also see signs everywhere you look.

Anxiety makes you the center of the world. Your plane is bound to crash, because YOU are in it; in public places everybody is looking at YOU, and other people’s moods and states depend solely on YOUR behavior.

Speaking of other people! Interacting with others always makes you feel like they don’t like you, like they don’t get you, like you need to explain yourself over and over again; you go out of your way to be considerate and attentive.

It may seem like thanks to your anxiety you are always on the alert for anything! You anticipate a bunch of different scenarios, worry in advance about anything that might go wrong and prepare yourself. For instance, open your purse: it has everything you need to survive the apocalypse.

Anxiety gives you a ride on the energy swing: you either can’t bring yourself to do anything at all, or you work 24/7. 

Anxiety feeds on your energy, so you often feel exhausted (for no apparent reason), burned out and irritated. And long-lasting tension breaks out in various physiological conditions: your palms are sweating, you have irregular appetite, your head, neck and shoulders are aching, you often get gastrointestinal disorders and sleep issues.

Of course, there are some advantages as well. Largely due to anxiety you are a well-organized, responsible and considerate person. But the price you have to pay for this is way too high.

You can learn how to cope with anxiety in our course Care. You’ll find it in the Courses section.