What your Anxiety day looks like on the worst days

[MakUSA]

I know that anxiety comes in different shapes, and there are hundreds of different symptoms. I am curious how everyone's day is going when they get hit by that anxiety bus. Mine is usually like this:

- Foggy brain morning, tired, not interested in doing anything
- Towards the lunch time a bit lightheaded, but have energy
- The worst starts in the afternoon, my head is looking like to pop, yawning a lot, there is that lightheadedness again, tired
- It goes back and forth after I come home from work, but I still feel weird and pretty bad.
- Before I finish with the night it gets better but I still have troubles with sleeping

 

[Izthewiz]

For me it's going over my medical records a few times a week and thinking I have a disease that they haven't diagnosed me with yet.
From there I just think and think the worst like I'm going to be dying soon.
It's tough but I am getting better

 

[MakUSA]

For me it's going over my medical records a few times a week and thinking I have a disease that they haven't diagnosed me with yet.
From there I just think and think the worst like I'm going to be dying soon.
It's tough but I am getting better

Same here, even after so many tests I still doubt but yeah, it is getting better, not too much better but going to the right direction, at least I think i do.

 

[IAAnxiety]

I fight getting tests. I tell myself it isnt rational to get so many tests. But then I sit around all day and diagnose myself with illnesses, usually not more than one at a time.

The mornings and nights are the worst. As soon as I wake up, I’m hit with a panic attack. I fight going to sleep b/c there will be a new day when I wake and I’ll have to do it all over again.


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[MATD]

For years and years it was excruciating from day to night. I couldn’t possibly list everything I felt in one day on here. But I can say that now I’m in recovery mode. My mind is so much more calm, HA at the lowest it’s ever been, obsessive thoughts very low. My current biggest issue on a daily basis is motivation. But I’m working on it.

 

[4bready]

Obsess about something wrong with my health. I stay in intense thought loop and don't want to do anything else than worry. I hate it, keep me from being present with my kids. I get scared and lonely. I obsess about every little sensation.

 

[E.B]

I am one of the ones who does the opposite of going to the docs. I fear going and having tests and dont(not proud of it) mornings are always worse when going through an anxiety season for me. Waking up out of peace to realize that peace on your mind wasnt real is the most dreadful feeling ever...

When no symptoms im fine, when symptoms come its worry time....very out of sight out of mind for me

 

[suzzeeb]

Mornings are the worst for me. It always seems like right after I shower and get ready I'm completely wiped out. I make myself do a few things in the morning so I feel like I accomplished something like going to the grocery store and maybe a load of laundry and figure out dinner, but feel shaky and weak and exhausted. By the afternoon I try to do something else to get out of the house like even going to get a coffee at starbucks and take a short drive around and then by evening I make dinner still feeling anxious most of the time. I usually feel better if my grandsons come over for dinner a couple days a week because I think I am distracted, and also weirdly I have some evenings when I feel so much better than the first part of the day, but I dread the next day because I know I will feel awful again in the morning. I think if I slept better I wouldn't feel so bad either, but lack of sleep makes my anxiety a lot worse.

 

[Camden]

I wake up feeling sick and my hands and feet tremble and tingle. Everything in my life seems scary and overwhelming and all I want to do is go back to sleep and not deal with anything.

After I power through the initial early morning anxiety, I begin overthinking my relationships and my daily decisions. I feel guilty for being "dead weight" or not doing enough to help out at work or with my family. I feel like no matter what I decide will be the wrong decision. The air around me at work or wherever I am seems dense and tense, as if one false move on my part will get me in serious trouble. I obsess about things that can go wrong, and dwell on times in the past when I have made mistakes. On a bad anxiety day, I feel scrutinized, vulnerable, guilty, and as if I am a bad person.

I find myself being easily startled by small noises, such as a door slamming down the hall or someone sneezing. I feel like my sympathtic nervous system is in overdrive, and someone is going to berate me about a problem that does not exist. My appetite decreases and I need to pee more often. Even a low key day, my anxiety leaves me feeling totally exausted.

 

[imsotired]

For me it's going over my medical records a few times a week and thinking I have a disease that they haven't diagnosed me with yet.
From there I just think and think the worst like I'm going to be dying soon.
It's tough but I am getting better

sending love to you

 

[MakUSA]

To add, for me is like a vicious cycle, I have great days and then boom, I feel awful and anxious for days, wondering if good days will come back. Its that bad that in one point I wonder if this life is worth living.

 

[Nutmeg]

Today for me is a great example of a medium to bad day. I’m ruminating on something that happened 8 years ago, and I’m feeling the anger and frustration as if it was fresh. I just want it to stop. When I feel this way I can understand how some people turn to drugs and alcohol as a means of coping, because it’s like an excruciating mental pain.

 

[Lanchparty7]

I have bad Seasonal Affective Depression and I happen to live in one of the most miserable winter weather locations where there is nearly two feet of snow on the ground at the moment and it is bitter cold. It is not like I was okay or anything before the snow came…I was miserable and anxious before, now, I am an unmitigated disaster.

 

[Jonathan123]

I too suffered from SAD, but as the years passed it got better. It was definitely associated with my anxiety. I tried one of those light boxes designed to give a semblance of sunlight, but it did not do a lot for me. It may help you though and worth a try.