Whether its headaches, sweating, shaking,, nausea or anything else. What would you consider the worst symptom of anxiety

Mine is drinking something. Whether it's sipping my coffee or chugging water even though I'm not thirsty, I have to take a drink of something. It's really annoying when I have like a job interview or I have to talk with a professor because I'm fighting the urge to grab my water bottle. What are yours?

Edit: thank you all for sharing. I now have 300 new tics

As someone with anxiety, I often get hit with random, scary thoughts out of nowhere. Like, I’ll be in the kitchen and suddenly imagine grabbing a knife and hurting myself or someone else. It freaks me out.

Or when I’m driving and stop at a crosswalk, I might think about hitting the gas and running someone over. It scares me so much that I’ll double-check the brakes and gear to make sure everything’s fine.

Sometimes, if someone’s crouched down with their back to me, I’ll think about kicking them. These thoughts are super irrational and terrifying at the moment, but they cause a lot of anxiety.

Looking back now, I can see how absurd these thoughts were and even laugh at how ridiculous they sound.

What are some intrusive thoughts you’ve had that seemed terrifying at first but are now funny in hindsight?

I've got so many. Muscle twitching all over, TMJ, hypnic jerks, stomach pain, eye floaters, a 3 week long head ache, throat tension.

I have had seveare anxiety day in day out for over a year. Has been hell.

I have a habit of rewatching movies that I’ve already seen like a billion times as a way to help cope a bit with my anxiety. Anyone else? If you do this, what movies do you rewatch? I’m looking for something that will put my mind at ease.

I have a list of over 20 things, it's bizarre how bad it can get.

I thought it’d be helpful for all of us to start a thread to share what works!!

Like a lot of peeps in this group, I experience daily anxiety.

I’m trying to avoid relying on medicine and instead learn to control my panic attacks with more natural hacks…

Something that has been working well recently is « cardiac coherence » (breathe in 5 seconds, breathe out 5 seconds, repeat for 3 minutes).

I've always been nervous about 'getting in trouble' - I'm not sure I can even put words to it exactly. As a kid it made sense, I had super strict parents, but it's followed me into my adult life. Like at work, I'm always anxious I'm going to get 'in trouble'.

And when I self talk that it doesn't even make sense - like who gives a fuck? Losing my job would suck but I've never lost a job and my boss says I'm doing well. And yet I find myself always looking over my shoulder and feeling guilt and anxiety building if anything is going wrong or if I slack off a bit after getting work done.

I wish I could shake the tendency but I just can't seem to. Anyone else feel this?

I get bad anxiety and many hardships. Can someone suggest me any comfort shows?

I have watched parks and rec, B99, and kim's convenience. Also gave schitt's creek many tries but couldn't get into it. Anything similar? I want something clean, wholesome, with little meanness/seriousness. Thank you.

Every day I have this anxiety about work, and every day I tel myself “well it’ll be over at 5pm” and then I have the evening but I go to bed very early because I’m tired of being anxious all day and then do it all over again in the morning. I feel like I’ve lost months of time like this. I don’t want to let my life disappear into just waiting for the days to be over.

I get panic attacks around 7ish every night. I want to watch a show to take my mind off it but choosing a show always just makes my anxiety get worse and worse. I get kinda frozen/stuck. Best shows that relax your mind and help ease anxiety but still a good enough story like to keep your mind occupied?

Be honest. I feel like alot of us do

edit: upvote if youre a queen

I’m vaccinated and boosted, and I don’t have a particular fear of being sick, but I love being able to hide my face when I go out in public. Something about it just calms my anxiety a bit. Anyone else or am I just a weirdo?

I feel like sleep is one of the most important things for beating anxiety. Would like to know how many are and aren’t sleeping well. Thanks!

I’ve been so stressed and anxious these past few days, especially after my job closing due to the covid-19 pandemic. I keep feeling tightness in my chest and then get stressed worrying I might have a mild case. Then I have to stop and put myself in check. Do I have a fever? No. Body aches and chills? No. Dry cough? No. Does anyone else have to keep themselves in check like this?

I’ve been lurking for years, and finally felt a sense of belonging and understanding after reading the OCD subreddit so decided to actually make an account and post. It hasn’t even been a full week yet. In a separate subreddit, I was vulnerable and opened up but feel like people got upvoted for being mean/harsh in their comments? Like they all jumped in and banded together? I deleted Instagram a long time ago, and really any kind of internet community makes me question myself so I’m not sure why I thought this would be different. Thinking of going off. I don’t think this is good for me. Has anyone else felt like this and what value do you get from staying on?

Edit: I don’t know what I was expecting, but I am pretty blown away by the positive reception here. Guess anxiety sub Reddit are my peeps!

I have this really annoying habit that every time I hang out with friends / have talks with people, afterwards i start obsessing over every word that came out of my mouth. "Maybe i shouldn't have said that" "Maybe i should have reacted differently"... It's so tiring and it always lasts at least the next day and makes me incredibly anxious. I just want to relax and not feel like I'm a total idiot by just interacting with others. I try to constantly fight it by telling myself i did nothing wrong, but the moment i don't fight it, i get back on the anxiety circle.

Can anyone relate?

And if anyone has any helpful tips, that'd be appreciated!

Thank you guys for all of your responses. This makes me feel a lot better about my current situation, and I hope you all feel a bit less alone after reading through these responses.

This often comes over me and I stress so much that I’ll spend so many years feeling so negative and anxious, only to waste my life doing so and not able to live my life to the full. It sounds dumb I know but I imagine being old and looking back at what should have been some of the best years of my life which were actually tainted.

EDIT: Thank you so much for all your comments/upvotes/awards. I feel a lot better knowing I’m not alone, although I wouldn’t wish this feeling on anyone else! We can do this guys!

Basically the title. I constantly feel like I’ve done or said something wrong or offensive and somebody is mad at me after social interactions. Especially with my family and friends. Even if the interactions ended positively and with hugs goodbye and such. I don’t have a bad relationship with any of them. I don’t consider myself anti social. I’ve mentioned this to my husband and some friends and have been told it’s all in my head basically(in the nicest way possible). My husband will reassure me that I’ve done nothing wrong and no one is mad at me, but I usually have a really hard time shaking the feeling and sometimes it even lasts into the next day. It happens all the time. He and others will say even if someone is mad at me that they’ll get over it, probably before I even see them again and I shouldn’t worry about it, but for some reason I can’t shake the guilty feeling. Is this just me?

EDIT: I never expected this post to get the response that it did. I want to reply to everyone, but don’t want to be a broken record either. I’m sorry you all are suffering with this as well and I hope we all find some relief someday. It really helps me to know I’m not alone in these feelings. I hope knowing you’re not alone brings you some relief as well. And I’m nobody special, but if anyone ever needs to talk or share experiences I’m here.