Levii

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Pretty good take to be honest

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Asbestos, lead, micro plastics, BHA, PFAs, higher glycation rates leading to instability in both physical and mental health, growing up in polluted cities, screen time on the rise.

Certain aspects of modern life are creating conditions that lead many people to be anxious narcissists and conspiracy theorists. Everyone's isolated (not physically), everyone's paranoid and lonely. (I use everyone as a generalisation, clearly not everyone is like this, I would say 50ish% of people are)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does. Especially during Summer/Autumn.

My big fear isn’t about human interaction so much, though that is still present, it is more about the possibility of being attacked or robbed.

To add to that, I was pretty carefree with leaving the house and whatnot prior to these two experiences. I was even confident/raring to leave the house.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sorry for the late reply, I dont go on Lemmy often enough.

I try to speak kindly to myself as frequently as possible, and rarely find criticism from within when it comes to these kinds of issues. I don’t think the issue is necessarily how I talk to myself. I dont really know what to do

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thank you for the reply, I do go outside, almost everyday actually, I see friends and everything. Sometimes i really dont want to, but do so anyway. But still cant shake this feeling, im super sociable, go to events for music etc. but when im just out, or at a bar, i cant help but have this feeling. Im still working on it I guess

 

To preface, i do have some trauma, regarding two separate incidents that happened years ago and years apart, but since the last i have found it difficult to be outside sober without getting very anxious about my safety.

Walking past anyone, the potential of locking eyes or the potential of random people talking to me are things i worry about or become almost fixated on regardless of who they are and who im with. I cant just walk down a street, even busy ones without being hyper vigilant.

Has anyone ever gotten over this kind of anxiety? If so, how?

(Ive been to therapy and I've already processed a lot of what happened, but i still get this anxiety when leaving the house or just being outside in the streets)