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34 Things People With Anxiety Always Wanted To Tell Their Friends
Everyone gets anxious from time to time, which is why it can be difficult for us to understand people with chronic anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders, however, can be socially and psychologically crippling for those who suffer from them, so The Mighty decided to help give these people a voice by collecting and publishing their comments about anxiety.
The comments, which Bored Panda supplemented with their own photo pairings, offer some specific advice for how to approach with someone who has an anxiety disorder. Most of them, however, have to do with simple compassion and understanding. If you have an anxiety disorder, let us know what you'd like to add in the comments!
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I wish my mother would understand this and get of my back about everything.
like a radio that wont shut off ? this is scary , i once went 3 days 3 night without sleep and the mind just keep 'screaming' i was nearly mad , i approached a christian leader and he told me i lack faith , i say 'f**k you'
I really like this one, people just don't understand what hell you are going through if you care about me please just try to understand. If people could somehow know what we deal with everyday .I did not ask to be this way and I would do anything not to feel this way.
I've lived a life of apologizing - to my friends, my children, my doctors, and I don't know why. I might as well apologize for the rain.
such people are extremely rare , unles it is another sufferer , i have met a few and yeah we understand :)
It's more that men aren't as out spoken about their problems. It's important that we read this sort of thing though, and understand that it's not an unusual struggle.
i am anxiety , it consume me , i want to be better , i will be better if you help me ... just be my friend.
I don't know how to delete it... I'm so sorry.... F**k... I'm sorry...
I think it was funny and an accurate representation of my daily life at college. xD Was a surprise to come across at the least.
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I liked this image, even without the text. Even with anxiety (which yes I've had for years) you have to laugh at yourself sometimes. That image is my brain when people think I'm calm.
Thank you to all who saw something positive about this... I really didn't mean to offend anyone and I wish I knew how to delete it...
hey nothing to be sorry about! This was such a great post. My daughter has anxiety and I never do and I need to begin to understand better, so thank you so much! And the funny wavy thing is great!! :)
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I think it's safe to say that the Earl of Lemongrab experiences some pretty severe anxiety. ;) I relate to him in that way, and I totally identify with this image. Jacqui (a couple posts below mine) put it perfectly when describing this as "my brain when people think I'm calm." Exhausting.
There is no reason to be sorry. It was the last picture I saw when I read the article and it perfectly describes the feelings someone with anxiety has somethimes...ormost of the times... Wanting to cry out, to be heard by the rntire world but it feels like no one is listening... Or maybe no sound comes out... I cannot really tell which is the scenario. Maybe both..
Sorry my text didn't load up with the image. I'm so sorry if this offended you. I have severe anxiety too. And I idk I'm sorry...
Don't worry some ppl are just taking it the wrong way when you don't intend that whatsoever
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Not offensive at all. :) Made me laugh. I have bad chronic anxiety. This picture is comically accurate. Lol
You mistake is done for good. You made someone day a bit better. Tho some ppl who can't take job just don't
Me, I saw it as I needed a break from my anxiety and needed some funny in my day.
Idk why there are downvotes. Helped lighten the mood. Sometimes all I need are silly cartoons or gifs. XP
When I say something and think it was the wrong thing to say or came across the wrong way I'm still thinking about it days/weeks later when
I understand you. Rumination saps so much of my energy, I sometimes feel unable to give attention to anything else. Not only exhausted, it leaves me feeling an ironic combination of nervousness and boredom.
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Sometimes you sit and climb a bunch of scenarios, and each of them leads you to a terrible end. You feel paralyzed, and can not make a single step.
Literally exactly how I feel at times. So refreshing to hear other people get it too.
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Sometimes, I feel anxious for feeling anxious when there are way worse things in the world, liver poverty, war ...
There are some ways of anxiety cures. We can take the medical treatment by going to a doctor and take some medicines and we can take herbs. Those two treatments of overcoming anxiety have their own advantages and disadvantages. For the chemical medicine, surely it will give bad effects for our body after consuming for a period of time. Meanwhile, taking the herbs could be dangerous if we do not know the right doze and how effective the herb works. You can find more about it on https://pharmacyrxs.com. As information, nowadays many people still love to take the herbs. The most common herbs or overcoming anxiety is passion flower. People can get it in capsule, tea, etc.
i had my first anxiety on 2017 when i was in the last year in my high school and it lasted a year. the first symptoms i had was less sleep and when i sleep then wake up i would feel like i never had a sleep, another symptom was i had a racing heart beat that when i hear my pulse i would ask my self a lot of questions which would make me panic and make my pulse more faster. for that year i had the anxiety, i had reached a very high level in the anxiety like i used to talk to myself and ask what is happening to me, i used to google my symptoms and google would respond like i had a non-functioning glands and felt hopeless and would be like this forever. i used to cry a lot, but i had this part that made me feel better which was PRAYING. i started praying my 5 prayers everyday and reading Quran. After 2days i would sleep better, my pulse went back to normal and the most thing i missed a lot happiness. Afterwards i learnt how to control my anxiety and stress and whenever i feel some pressu
Sometimes I wish the worst would happen just so I feel like I'd have some justification for how awful I feel.
I might not have anxiety, but I really relate to some of these. On some days, I dread going to school because I know I'll be forced to pick a partner when I don't know anybody. I made a penal in America just so I had somebody to talk to who wouldn't answer too fast or be angry and try to make it go away when I needed to pour my heart out. I want to go to parties, but only if the person I know from them lives there so I can hide in their room. Sometimes I want to hide away with my only close friends and stay there forever so I wouldn't have to face anything. I dread doing hard work or making plans for something good because I know I'll just leave it or it won't work at all. The worst part is that my friend has depression and has cut herself, but I'm too scared I'll make it worse if I try to help her.
im gonna be honest, i never knew what anxiety was, heard it a bunch of times, tought that ppl who suffer it where one of those that all of the sudden felt like running in panic and needed to breath in a bag every once in a while. But after reading this, i dont know how accurate it is but... i have felt and said every one of these quotes a lot of times in my life, should i see a specialist?
Lucky for me, I have FRIENDS, not just people, who already understand and dont ever makes me feel guilty... instead they even shut them in the house with me just to talk or just to be there... even if we dont talk they are just... there
Now I realized I was anxious. My brain couldn't shut up and I always expected for the worse. I think that changed because I wanted to so I decided to made a trip, to get out of the circle I was living in, I decided to go to another country. I think that will help a lot.
When I'm panicking knows that I'm not intentionally exaggerating things. Every worst things possible just sound too real in my head
When I say something and think it was the wrong thing to say or came across the wrong way I'm still thinking about it days/weeks later when
I understand you. Rumination saps so much of my energy, I sometimes feel unable to give attention to anything else. Not only exhausted, it leaves me feeling an ironic combination of nervousness and boredom.
Load More Replies... Sometimes you sit and climb a bunch of scenarios, and each of them leads you to a terrible end. You feel paralyzed, and can not make a single step.
Literally exactly how I feel at times. So refreshing to hear other people get it too.
Load More Replies... Sometimes, I feel anxious for feeling anxious when there are way worse things in the world, liver poverty, war ...
There are some ways of anxiety cures. We can take the medical treatment by going to a doctor and take some medicines and we can take herbs. Those two treatments of overcoming anxiety have their own advantages and disadvantages. For the chemical medicine, surely it will give bad effects for our body after consuming for a period of time. Meanwhile, taking the herbs could be dangerous if we do not know the right doze and how effective the herb works. You can find more about it on https://pharmacyrxs.com. As information, nowadays many people still love to take the herbs. The most common herbs or overcoming anxiety is passion flower. People can get it in capsule, tea, etc.
i had my first anxiety on 2017 when i was in the last year in my high school and it lasted a year. the first symptoms i had was less sleep and when i sleep then wake up i would feel like i never had a sleep, another symptom was i had a racing heart beat that when i hear my pulse i would ask my self a lot of questions which would make me panic and make my pulse more faster. for that year i had the anxiety, i had reached a very high level in the anxiety like i used to talk to myself and ask what is happening to me, i used to google my symptoms and google would respond like i had a non-functioning glands and felt hopeless and would be like this forever. i used to cry a lot, but i had this part that made me feel better which was PRAYING. i started praying my 5 prayers everyday and reading Quran. After 2days i would sleep better, my pulse went back to normal and the most thing i missed a lot happiness. Afterwards i learnt how to control my anxiety and stress and whenever i feel some pressu
Sometimes I wish the worst would happen just so I feel like I'd have some justification for how awful I feel.
I might not have anxiety, but I really relate to some of these. On some days, I dread going to school because I know I'll be forced to pick a partner when I don't know anybody. I made a penal in America just so I had somebody to talk to who wouldn't answer too fast or be angry and try to make it go away when I needed to pour my heart out. I want to go to parties, but only if the person I know from them lives there so I can hide in their room. Sometimes I want to hide away with my only close friends and stay there forever so I wouldn't have to face anything. I dread doing hard work or making plans for something good because I know I'll just leave it or it won't work at all. The worst part is that my friend has depression and has cut herself, but I'm too scared I'll make it worse if I try to help her.
im gonna be honest, i never knew what anxiety was, heard it a bunch of times, tought that ppl who suffer it where one of those that all of the sudden felt like running in panic and needed to breath in a bag every once in a while. But after reading this, i dont know how accurate it is but... i have felt and said every one of these quotes a lot of times in my life, should i see a specialist?
Lucky for me, I have FRIENDS, not just people, who already understand and dont ever makes me feel guilty... instead they even shut them in the house with me just to talk or just to be there... even if we dont talk they are just... there
Now I realized I was anxious. My brain couldn't shut up and I always expected for the worse. I think that changed because I wanted to so I decided to made a trip, to get out of the circle I was living in, I decided to go to another country. I think that will help a lot.
When I'm panicking knows that I'm not intentionally exaggerating things. Every worst things possible just sound too real in my head
