I have anxiety about literally everything. My mom doesn’t believe me, nor does she think that I have any reason to be anxious about anything. So I made this list of all the reasons as to why I have anxiety! And no, this is not a joke.

Reasons I get anxiety:

• Someone smiled at me
• I panicked because someone smiled so I immediately looked away and now I’m thinking about how dumb I probably looked
• I’m trying out a new restaurant, and I don’t know what to order
• I don’t know how to pronounce something I want to order
• Thinking that I have no friends
• Someone tells me they don’t like cats
• Being in crowds
• Being alone
• Procrastinating on my assignments
• Bad weather
• Thinking that no one likes me
• Taking the dog outside when it’s dark
• Trying on clothes while shopping
• Trying to put change back into my wallet when there is someone waiting in line behind me
• Thinking that people are talking about me
• Thinking that I’m not smart enough
• Meeting new people
• Thinking I won’t get enough sleep
• Seeing someone subtweet and not knowing who it’s about
• Not being tan even though it’s winter
• Friends who try to play both sides of a situation
• Thinking about my past
• Thinking about my future
• Hearing Farrah from Teen Mom OG talk to her mother
• My grades
• Thinking that I’m not skinny enough
• The fact that I want to work out but have no motivation to do so
• Fears that I’ll mess something up
• Trying to talk to someone that I have nothing in common with
• Thinking that I’m not pretty enough
• Not being able to speak my mind when I know I need to
• When people tell me that I don’t understand something just because I’m not in the exact same situation as them
• Fear that I won’t know what I’m doing or how to do something
• Thinking that people are judging me
• Disappointing someone
• Going places by myself
• Thinking someone is using me for something
• When someone buys me something I don’t really like but have to pretend like I do
• Being around family or friends when politics are being discussed
• When people don’t text me back
• Being stopped in traffic when I’m by myself

I get anxiety about pretty much everything. Sometimes it passes within a few moments, but other times, it just lingers in my mind all day long. Some of the things I get anxiety about may seem silly, but I really do panic when they happen to me.

Anxiety is basically the anticipation of a future threat, which can be caused by literally anything. When this happens, my mind goes blank. I can’t focus, and I immediately don’t know what I’m supposed to do anymore.

I wish you all could have seen me when my first article was published. I couldn’t even share it to my own Facebook because I was terrified at what people would think or if the person I was talking about would see it. I had a panic attack, and I cried for two days. It took me about two weeks before I was able to actually put it on my Facebook wall, and even then, I didn’t share it on my own. I just shared it from another page because I still couldn’t make myself do it.

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