How bad is your anxiety?

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From a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the least and 10 being the worst, how bad would you say your anxiety is? I'm just curious to know because mine is so bad that sometimes I wonder if it's GAD. I'd have to give mine a rating between 6 and 10 because there are times that it's just... that bad. It also depends on my mood, how much sleep I've gotten and my stress triggers.

You don't have to be diagnosed with anxiety. My medical professionals have actually said my anxiety is due to my autism, but of course, I don't always believe them. I think there's a little more to my anxiety than what they are understanding.

It depends on whats going on during the week. Right now id say its at a 9 because i have a very important test coming up and its really making my anxiety go crazy. Usually though id say its at about a 6 during a normal week.

I am diagnosed with anxiety (among other things) but it's really just a 2 or 3. I can function and interact somewhat with smaller groups but bigger ones make me nervous.

usually around 4-5. Bad enough to make me uncomfortable most of the time, ie. jittery, butterfly stomach, difficulty in staying focused. But never so bad that I can't function day to day.

When it's bad I wake up after 4-5 hours and can't get back to sleep, I want to eat all the time, and need to go for long fast runs to blow off steam.

I have just started a different medication for anxiety, after trying zoloft which seemed to increase my nervousness.

My anxiety is weird. I dont feel anxious or nervous... but whatever part of my brain that processes speech seems to start short circuiting and the result is like stage fright without the fright. Mind blank/nothing coming to mind to add to or keep a conversation going. Its not 100% mind blank but it comes and goes every other sentence.

My anxiety is always lurking in the bushes, just waiting to leap out and attack me. It's not too bad at the moment, but only because I've gone back to living in a bit of a bubble. And because I'm on citalopram. A few months ago, I would have rated my anxiety at a 9 or 10. I could barely function; it felt like I was on the edge of a panic attack all the time. Nothing alleviated it, not even going on the internet. I mentioned citalopram. Well, while I don't think it has done a thing for my depression, I do believe it got me out of that agitated hellhole.

I think your medical professionals are fobbing you off slightly. Anxiety is a real and debilitating problem for loads of people: NTs and autistics alike. It should be addressed.

Maybe a five. I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder. I was never diagnosed with any specific kind except OCD but my anxiety is more than that because OCD does not explain all this anxiety.
It's enough to where I can't handle stress well and where I find a little thing stressful or where I shut down easily and when I get anxious in a social situation and start worrying about if I will goof up or not or the fact I am too scare to speak it does affect me in a situation and how hard it is to speak to my boss without feeling intense nervous and taking for ever for me to do and having to force myself. Also the fact I get stressed out from interruption what I am doing and I yell or snap and the fact I have to force myself to get up and do it. It's a fight every day. Perhaps pills will make this all easier but my health insurance won't cover any medicine. I need to sign up for Plan D and hopefully I will qualify since our income had changed because my husband lose his job. Also money gives me anxiety. Anything not in my control when things feel out of control for me gives me anxiety. My kid gives me it too where I have to leave places because he isn't listening and I am getting all stressed out so I prefer to go by myself and leave him home with his father which is what I do often. I also get it from him whining or shrieking or when he is rambunctious and not listening. My mom says my anxiety is part of AS.

At home and on weekends (not at work), my anxiety would be low. However, when I am at work, it normally ranges in the 3-6 zone. The reasoning is that there can be some changes to my routine at work which therefore creates anxiety in me. I like routine. Right now I am feeling anxiety in the 6 range because I recently posted on WrongPlanet a response similar to one I made a few years ago that a couple people didn't seem to understand. But since everyone else seems to post what they feel, I try to do the same. But I usually get anxiety. That is why I have taken breaks from here in the past.

Several years ago I took on a teaching change in the school district where I teach. The anxiety the change caused me (a few weeks before that school year began) made me so anxiety ridden that I had to spend a lot of my time in bed for several days. Then, after beginning the school year, things were fine. But four years later, I had to undergo another major change in my teaching.

Edit: I just went to the post that was giving me anxiety and edited out a couple paragraphs that I thought some might not understand in the way I intended it.

I would say about a 3 thanx to being on Buspar for generalized anxiety.

I'm not very good at number rating, but my levels of anxiety are, I would say, worse in the last few years than they used to be. I've been bullied in the building where I live, and someone slipped what is called a poison-pen letter through my door last year, a nasty anonymous note. I complained to management and they shrugged. It's even in the lease agreement that it's breaking the terms to cause trouble or upset to another tenant, yet the managers did nothing about the nasty note.

That note has made an impression on me and it's lasting. I hate where I live now, but I can't move because I can't make any more money than I do right now -- because of my anxiety and other issues!

I also have anxiety just getting out to work in the morning. I often have panic attacks in the morning knowing I have to go to work. I'm a hard worker and have been ever since I became self employed, but I'm becoming more and more unable to cope emotionally.

Hmm, maybe a 4? Severe enough to impact my comfort and sometimes my performance, but not severe enough to prevent me from attending classes.

a 8 on a daily basis, if im out of my house at a friends house or at school, i get really bad IBS or Acid Reflux when i even think about leaving the house.

It can get extremely bad. To the point where I am unable to do certain things and will have really bad outbursts and meltdowns.

My anxiety seems to come in different varieties (none of them are official types, except maybe "physiological" because I got that term from my psychologist -- but that may just be what she calls it, as opposed to it being a recognized thing):

1) Anxiety from trauma. This tends to be the worst kind, but it depends on the specific trauma -- some of my trauma-based fears have become less disabling and less extreme with time, therapy, and counter-balancing non-traumatic experiences.

2) Physiological anxiety from sensory processing problems.

3) Anxiety from build-up of stress. When I'm really stressed I sometimes get into a chronic state of hyper-arousal/hyper-vigilance and become anxious about all sorts of things I wouldn't otherwise be anxious about.

I have meds to deal with it and I'd put it at 2-3

The Anxiety level depends on how unwelcomed I feel (Esp. Indirectly) or how confusing by the situation is.

I have Generalised Anxiety Disorder but am receiving wonderful treatment through psychotherapy and medications. For this reason, I am now coping very well.

If I don't take my medication or don't communicate properly, it is usually above a 6.

Given the circumstances, my anxiety can escalate very quickly to a 9 or 10 (leafing to a meltdown).