How do I rank with anxiety?

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I want to know how bad I have it with anxiety compared to other guys, so Ill make a list of things that make me anxoius and see if I get worked up over more or less trivial things then the rest of you do. Right now I think Im consistently anxoius, but only a medium amount. I always find something to get worked up over and if its not something big that worries me, Ill find something little. So Im kinda perma-anxious, but not very bad. At least thats what I think right now.

I get anxoius when:

I play football (over death or paralysis)
My routine gets broken (my daily routine is what gets me through the day)
Car rides (anxious about getting in an accident, specifically head on)
I break one of my things, or even slightly damage it
I cant predict whats going to happen next (not talking about like in a TV show or anything, just like when I dont know when my parents are going to get home or something)
When Im around my friends
In the morning (its about going to school)
When Im put on the spot
When I have to do physical activity (Im not un-athletic, I just dont like to do sports in front of other people)

Ill probably think of more after I post this, but thats it for now

I think you and me are similar. I predict all these bad things people will say to me when they open their mouthes, but a lot of the time they weren't even going to say anything like that. I used to get anxious about swimming and diving when I was a kid because I didn't want to drown or fall the wrong way and split my stomach open on the water or fall sideways off the diving board and smash my head or something. I think we have pretty high anxiety. I think we need to be in a war one or something where it's useful.

Ya, you sound a lot like me! I always think the worst thing possible is going to happen. My anxiety doesnt normally affect my everyday life. I dont have panic attacks MOST of the time, but I do every once in a while. It doesnt effect my life in the way that I skip school or dont play football, but it does affect my life in the way that the anxious thoughts distract me from my thinking and scare me.

Like me! I worry so much about death, I won't go into details.

I have basically the same thing. I am constantly afraid of paralysis or brain damage in physical situations. My body/mind sometimes replicates symptoms to an extent- like for instance when I'm lying down in bed and I move and my body makes a small, normal noise, I freak out and I think I've damaged my brain- and then I feel weird, even though i'm fine

Also, I worry too much about little things.

I know how you feel.

I'm the same way in just about every way, so don't feel bad.

Mine is so bad that I can't watch a movie with any kind of suspense...not knowing what is going to happen just kills me! I sit and play solitaire on my phone for the last half of the movie to get my mind off of it...my heart just races through the whole thing.

This is awesome! So many people just like me!

I know i rank high on the anxiety scale, I take 2 diff. pills just for it

Wow, lots of people like me. I used to carry pepper spray everywhere including to school and sleep with it and was upset when I lost it, the only way I could calm myself down was looking at ready.gov, I refused to inhale exhaust and would take a huge gulp of air when I saw a car coming in the distance and would only let it out after the car had passed, because I believed that our brain cells didn't regenerate. I obsessed over how to improve airport security and make it actually work. After I saw Million Dollar Baby I felt awful and more paranoid, about getting paralysed and stuff like that. I practised hiding plastic and wooden shanks under my clothes for in case I had to go somewhere with metal detectors. (this was before I realized I could just fold the safety information card on a plane in half or roll it up and cut it with little kid's safety scissors so that it had a blade. Using the right movements, it would be better, and much bigger, than my 8 plastic knives that I planned to hold in one hand and use as a weapon.

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