Im just having a genuinely hard time placing the feeling “anxiety”. The explanations I’ve seen have seemed like very normal behavior like feeling unmotivated about something or nervous of meeting someone.
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You know that moment of gut-wrenching fear when you see the face of someone who is a second away from telling you that someone you loved just died? Or the suckerpunch feeling when you start to fall? It’s like that, but can last for hours/days. A severe panic attack is so painful and scary people routinely mistake them for a heart attack. In a mild case, it feels like the night before a big test but for no reason.
Part of why it seems more prevalent is we call it by a different name. Long ago, people with anxiety were ‘neurotic’ or an ‘invalid’ or ‘hysterical’ or just outcast completely if it was severe.
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