From Quora
I can’t speak for everyone, but there are many ridiculous things this person does in the name of anxiety. Here are ten of the most common.
- Not answering the door if I’m alone and not expecting anyone. There’s a whole world of shit beyond my front door and I’m not inviting it in while I’m single-crewed.
- Spending 99.9% of my life in my bedroom where I feel safe and can control any intervening variables.
- Wasting hours retrospectively analysing conversations from all angles and tormenting myself with the many different ways I was an insensitive idiot.
- Always assuming I am the one in the wrong.
- Running simulations in my head for how I will cope when the next catastrophe befalls me.
- Panicking when there is an unexpected change in plan that I haven’t planned for or (secretly) risk-assessed in advance.
- Over-thinking everything and exhausting myself before I’ve even got up in the morning.
- Assuming that any random ailment is my cancer returning for a third time to finish me off.
- Asking my husband if he’s annoyed with me 28 times a day then getting defensively angry when he cracks and does become annoyed.
- Going into a flat out panic when someone asks ‘Are you busy tonight?’ without quantifying exactly what I will be committing myself to if I reply in the negative.