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11 Things Anxiety Is Besides A Panic Attack

It comes in many different shapes and sizes.

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11 Things Anxiety Is Besides A Panic Attack
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For a long time, I struggled with accepting that I had anxiety. I felt like since I didn't have typical panic attacks, I was just being a baby about how I felt. However, over the years I have come to accept that everyone feels things in different ways.

That being said, anxiety isn't alway panic attacks. Anxiety rears its ugly head in many different ways. This is what anxiety is for me:

1. Anxiety is going shopping with your family and feeling sick in the middle of the mall, where you've never had a problem before.

2. Anxiety is sitting at the food court wondering what you would do if someone were to start shooting.

3. Anxiety is leaving your family or significant other for more than a day and feeling like you need to cry because you miss them so much.

4. Anxiety is when you're in public and you can't help but overanalyze everything you're doing because you think you look ridiculous.

5. Anxiety is being too afraid to text your friends, for fear that you're annoying them.

6. Anxiety is wondering if your friends even like you, thinking they only talk to you out of pity.

7. Anxiety is overthinking about everything.

8. Anxiety is fearing that something's wrong every time your parents call you.

9. Anxiety is worrying that when your significant other doesn't answer the phone, something awful has happened.

10. Anxiety is having a constant fear that your significant other is going to break up with you.

11, Anxiety is convincing yourself that you're going to fail that test even though you studied.


These are just some of the ways my anxiety enters my life. Some of these things I have gotten under control with the help of medicine, but a lot of them still show up in my life from time to time.

I want everyone to know that just because you don't have anxiety attacks doesn't mean you don't have anxiety. Anxiety comes in many different shapes and sizes and all of those forms are relevant.

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