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What do anxiety and depression feel like? I can only tell you about my own experiences, inside my head.
It’s like a million thoughts colliding into each other. By the time I pin one down, I have forgotten the previous.
It’s the inability to make a decision about the simplest thing.
It’s the feeling of needing to claw at my skin to let everything out and not feel trapped within me.
It’s the little voice that pinpoints all my insecurities and magnifies them.
It’s the constant need for background noise to combat all the noise inside my head.
It’s feeling exhausted from overthinking everything.
It’s having an attack and sitting there completely still and hoping no one talks to you.
It’s feeling completely overwhelmed and then exploding in a rage without any idea why.
It’s feeling completely helpless and worthless.
It’s feeling like I need to get up and go but not finding the energy to do so.
It’s laughing at people who put you down because you’ve said so much worse to yourself.
It’s looking around you and just wishing you could be normal. Wanting to know what silence actually is.
Running even after the danger has passed
A therapist described anxiety to me so simply. A gazelle will run when a lion chases the herd, but will stop as soon as the lion has caught its meal, even if it’s standing right next to it. The danger has passed and there is no need to use up further energy. An individual with anxiety will keep running even though the danger has passed. They remain in that state of fear. Which as you can imagine is exhausting.
Believe it or not, despite all of the above, I have found some positives. But that’s for another time.
Just remember, a person can seem so calm and cool, but you never really know what they are going through.
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I have read with interest the comments from others it is so helpful to know l am not alone Thankyou
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