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
this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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For me, that feeling comes from dissociating. Anxiety is so viscerally physically uncomfortable that i try to avoid it at all costs (which leads to feeling anxious about feeling anxious lmfao meta-anxiety ftw lol). Part of that avoidance entails not even mentally getting close to the triggers. So when they become unavoidable or pop up unexpectedly, it can feel pretty drastic. I feel like my avoidance of thinking about things is probably affecting my ability to understand, and the unknown is a wellspring of anxiety. Maybe it's different for you, or maybe this helps you understand yourself better. Either way i hope things get easier for you.
I get anxiety just by looking at the awful job someone did filling the title background.
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.
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.
Been living in stage 3-4 for too long now. Comments like these are one of the only things giving me hope. Used to be a lot more cynical but now i'll take anything I can get. Thank you
Been doing the same journey and want to chime in that it be better. Still have my dips but they are so fleeting.
2-3
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."
I have been at 4 before. My problem was I didn't even realize it was anxiety.
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.
1.25.
Had some mild panic attacks for some reason recently though. It was maybe a lack of sleep.
until recently, I was a 7 or 8, but now I think I'm about 2
Thank you for this. Weekdays are average of 3 with peaks of 2 and valleys of 4. Weekends and average of 2 with same +-.
2 or 3
May your next day be better than the last.