15 Things Others Won’t Realize You Are Doing Because Of Your Constant Anxiety

Anxiety and nervousness are part and parcel of life. Sometimes, things don’t turn out the way we want. We may be anxious about an impending event, an interview an exam, or a health test. Such incidents that may induce a certain amount of anxiety in us which may help us concentrate; focus and work harden in managing them. However, in many people, levels of anxiety go out of hand and beyond a person’s normal level of such experiences. This is when it becomes a problem where several factors could impact and trigger such conditions that could be very hard to get rid of.

1The biggest problem about anxiety

The tragic fact about anxiety is those who don’t suffer from it don’t realize what’s going on. There are many who cannot find any justification to empathize with a person who is depressed out of assumptions that the person is lazy, passive, irresponsible or seeing attention. “Why are you depressed” is a common question asked worldwide of many who can’t really give you an answer. That’s when the wrong assumptions start not knowing that depression and anxiety is an affliction that can attack you some time with no rhyme or reason. 

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2Anxiety attacks you, it isn’t invited

This article is primarily meant for those who aren’t suffering from chronic anxiety. Perhaps this will create more awareness into not making unjustified or wrong assumptions about people who are depressed and who need your support not criticism. This is a list of what anxious people usually do without even realizing it because of anxiety. 

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3They decline invitations to events even though they would like going

You’ve wanted to go for that big bash for weeks on end but when the day comes, your anxiety attack flares up with full force overwhelming you and draining you of energy. As a result, you simply stay home because you don’t want to spoil the day for others.

The next time if you have a friend suffering from anxiety and they don’t turn up for your party, just remember this. 

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4Obsessions over trivial matters

Anxious people are obsessed over trivial incidents both negative and positive and dwell on such matters for months on end. It could be a hurtful word, it could be someone looking at you in the street, it could be people who aren’t responsive to you through cell, internet or text. When you don’t get a response back, you begin to worry and wonder negative reasons assuming they are ignoring you, they may not like you anymore, they don’t want to keep in touch with you etc.

What’s more, trivial matters upset you at home because of constant irritability. You may also assume too deeply what people may tell you like a joke may be misinterpreted as intentional criticism. When work gets to much it can overwhelm you and that’s not because you are lazy, it’s because you suffer from anxiety and people should realize that. 

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5You sleep too late and wake up too early

Insomnia usually affects those who are anxious and depressed. You just can’t sleep at night and finally when you do, you wake up two early which become a vicious cycle of torment as lack of sleep further weakens your brain. Lack of serotonin and melatonin the sleep and feel good hormones are reduced only worsening your symptoms.

Anxious people get up too early because of the anxiety clock ticking away in the body like a secondary alarm. Once it rings, you just can’t return back to sleep again. 

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