Rate your Anxiety
10 = being severe more than once a day >
1 = being occasionally <
And what triggers it?
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My anxiety varies from day to day but the last few years it’s probably been around 6 due to the economy. It’s triggered when I remember past trauma, or more often now when I feel a lack of control over a situation. I’ve learned that anxiety = need for more control so I try to keep control over my life so no aspect is totally out of control. But it’s hard to control chronic health issues and aging so those are causing more anxiety now that I’m older. Sometimes I’m triggered without realizing it, like if something is happening that I don’t have control over or don’t fully understand. One example would be like a loud, long plane going overhead when I’m in a building & barely hear it. When my health starts to have a crisis, of course I get anxiety as I try to manuever so that I can get help or treat myself medically without attracting attention from strangers, while still finding a comfortable area to do it. Usually that’s blood sugar, nervous system issues or muscle weakness. When I feel a compulsion for a binge on sweet junk food, later sometimes I realize that actually I was feeling anxious but didn’t realize it at all due to not wanting to think about past trauma so kind of denying it in my mind and then just jumping straight to overeating without even noticing.
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I have anxiety today. I don’t know why? My hands are ice cold, my stomach hurts and I feel really bad.
My anxiety is really 10 . I have it all day and it’s the anticipation of voices and paranoia
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I would say I’m a 5 to 6 most of the time with spikes of 7 to 8 when things come up that trigger me. I’m a lot better than I was before living on the edge of 10 all the damn time. This question makes me realize I need to work on my anxiety some.
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Since I started working a 8 or 9
I don’t feel so alone reading your comments
The rest of you struggle too unfortunately 
I have a routine to help me, i have to be organised and keep everything in order. Relaxation techniques can help when its unbearable and diazapam helps a bit
I get anxious everyday still though, if i stay in all day its less anxiety
Yes often nothing triggers it. Have you had it for many years?
Congrats working , sorry your still struggling
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Lately it’s been a 9. I usually cruise at a tolerable 3 or 4, but now I’ve been having more than 4 panic attacks a day. My abdomen muscles just seize up and start spasming, and I just get intense anxiety which lasts for a bit.
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All the time.
I have almost debilitating anxiety.
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9, I’m anxious most of the day. When I’m around people its worse, so I dont leave the house much. I take clonazepam for my anxiety but it does not help anymore.
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I’d rate mine at 4. I’m able to function but I sometimes worry needlessly. I also have understandable concerns regarding my future.
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You really need support, panic attacks are a nightmare sorry
Didn’t realise its really hard to live with
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Are you addicted to that? Is that why it doesn’t work anymore?
Im worried about getting dependent on benzos, i have to do without Somedays
I found something interesting on wiki about low frustration tolerance
Also refers to low stress tolerance
Low frustration tolerance is temporary or permanent and is related to anxiety
Anyone else got anything to say about anxiety?
Low frustration tolerance - Wikipedia.
Says People with low frustration tolerance experience emotional disturbance when frustrations are not quickly resolved.
[1] Behaviors are then directed towards avoiding frustrating events which, paradoxically, leads to increased frustration and even greater mental stress
the path to tolerance consisted of many roads,
including unconditional self-acceptance,
unconditional other-acceptance
and unconditional life-acceptance.
Yes i am dependent on them. Ive been taking them since 2008. If I dont take them after three days I get insomnia and become emotionally unstable. Your wise not taking them.
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It has been a 10 for a while
My head will find anything to wind myself up
Sometimes I have the physical symptoms like that weird horrible uncomfortable unsettling adrenaline sort of feeling for no apparent reason. Or heart palpitations.
Then a day or so later I will think ah, that’s why and realise what caused it mentally to give the physical symptoms
It’s pretty ■■■■■■ up, and with a pattern like that I struggle to be able to regulate it
I have tried to explain this to treatment professionals, but I am not sure I think they get it
We have now gone back round with anxiety being standalone somehow
First it was standalone, then it was caused secondary to psychosis, and now it is its own thing again
Basically I sympathise with every single person who has anxiety of any kind, as it’s a sick joke.
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