What does it mean when you feel 1 most of the time but occasionally instantly jump to 4/5 as stressors built up without your awareness?
Cause that’s me. Everything’s fine till it isn’t and I don’t see it coming
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That’s how they describe panic attacks. If it happens enough that it affects your functioning, it could be panic disorder. It’s a form of anxiety disorder.
6 years ago I was at 5. But I’ve slowly but surely been climbing. Today I find myself slightly above the chart, and I’ve been here for a year or two. Looking back I find it unbelievable that I lived at stage 4 for four years straight.
It gets better.
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Been doing the same journey and want to chime in that it be better. Still have my dips but they are so fleeting.
4±1. But 5 is rare
Fucking hell, I’m tired of being dysfunctional
3 is basically my baseline, but I never truly reach 5, so I’ve got that going on for me I guess.
How do you cope with it? Or are you also just planning to get used to it?
To be fair it is more of a 2 when I’m doing good, but with the amount of shit going on lately I rarely am. So I’m planning to get used to it and maybe see a shrink to get some meds.
I hope it gets better soon! :)
But yeah, can’t hurt to talk to professional
Buspirone is a miracle drug. I used to think anxiety was just life. Now, with medication, I can stay around 1.5 or 2. For years I was way higher until my doctor said “No, that’s not normal.”
love buspar. such an interesting drug. doesn’t mess with anything, non abusive, non euphoric, non benzo anxiolytic.
oh yeah and you can fuck on it.
I get anxiety just by looking at the awful job someone did filling the title background.
It’s a style. I don’t personally like it, but it helps to know that it was deliberate.
1.25.
Had some mild panic attacks for some reason recently though. It was maybe a lack of sleep.
Thank you for this. Weekdays are average of 3 with peaks of 2 and valleys of 4. Weekends and average of 2 with same +-.
I have been at 4 before. My problem was I didn’t even realize it was anxiety.
2 or 3
May your next day be better than the last.
Anyone notice their is no ‘zero’ in that scale.
There’s no zero… :(
Zero anxiety and you’d never leave the couch
High enough on the scale that thinking about where I am on the scale is mildly anxiety inducing lol.
Some day, I gotta just box that stuff up and shove it in a brain closet with locks on.
Which, I’m not complaining about the post, please don’t take my abnormal form of joking about the matter as anything like that.
I’m using it as a sideways approach to saying it’s been a bad anxiety day, trying to use a little humor to take the edge off while also venting a tiny bit.
Hell, it’s been a bad week, a bad month, and a bad year. World be crazy, and it grinds. Hard not to have anxiety spirals when there’s real world evidence that shit is pretty bad.
I never got past 1.
Steady 4
How do you go through life like that?
Not the original commentator, but: barely
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I’ve been between 3 and 4. This week I felt a greater intensity of discomfort. It’s hard for me to get out of bed. Despite that, I’ve been going to walk every day, at least 1 hour… and I’ve read a lot: in the last 30 days I’ve read about 6 books. Still, my activity beyond that is zero, so I feel certainly bad about it. The “work society” drags you down, whether you’re part of it or not.
