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I’ll go out on a limb with this one. I really think that anxiety is related to anger. There’s anger from sadness and there’s anger from feeling powerless. Feeling powerless doesn’t necessarily stem from physical aspects; it can be from self restraint and compliance.
If you aren’t stressed, then you’re forgetting something important and only falling behind. Better drink some coffee, smoke a cigarette and pace around until you realize what you should be stressing over
“Is that a fart, or a shart?”
It’s been a while since you mowed the lawn, but it rained recently so you’re not sure if the grass too wet to mow again.
The unstoppable passing of time
worrying whether I subconsciously worry too much or am stressed too much, because I’m bad at inspecting my emotions and my subconscious weirds me out
Do you think you are good enough to be anxious?
I genuinely want to see what gatekeeping anxiety looks like
Pretty sure it’s supposed to be like an imposter syndrome thing which, as someone with medically treated anxiety, can happen very easily.
What so special about gatekeeping anxiety? Wouldn’t most anxieties be gatekeeping?
Because everyone’s anxiety is different to each individual. How I deal with mine is different to how you deal with yours. Our own individual experiences direct how we deal with, and what is the anxiety we all suffer from.
My joke was more about the idea of parents or workers saying things like “You have no idea what ‘tired’ is until you’ve X, Y, or Z”.
I’d love to see how gatekeeping anxiety would look like.
"Oh you’re worried about climate change? Please. You don’t know what it’s like to worry. I was worried about the cold war where nukes could fall on us at any time. We had to do drills in class hiding under desks. Kids your age don’t know what anxiety is! "
If you’re younger, I find worrying about the climate is a good entry into the hobby. It’s a looming threat that affects everyone, definitely a Big Deal, yet it’s a slow burn. Super accessible for novices and experts alike.
Nah, climate worries are competitive ranked anxiety. You can even get a degree in it and a job where you get up in the morning, have climate anxiety for 8 hours and then go home.
That’s true, it had a high skill ceiling, but there are a lot of casual worriers getting into it. Honestly great for the genre.
I find that; since you have so little control over it. It has real staying power even for the casual worrier. You can dip into it between other worries, and all that has happened since you last picked it up is that it got worse.
It’s very flexible because this anxiety will be effective when level 1 and when it will be level 10 it can be super effective and also time consuming which makes even more anxiety
There’s the added bonus that it wouldn’t even be too hard to implement measures to alleviate it, we just don’t because some people simply don’t want to. I think it greatly adds to the tension and desperation.
You can start with climate change and work your way to all the other shit stemming from it
I was gonna go with “Do people really like me or only pretend to like me?” but you went right to pro-tier.
My body feels fractionally different, am I dying?
Did you lock the door?
But did you tho?
Ha ha, nice try. I know I locked it because I checked three times and each time said out loud, “it’s definitely locked”. I might just check one more time though…
Ah, the classics
(wait, did I lock the door?)
Yes, but you left the oven on.
Wait did i bring all i needed for today?
Sleep apnea is a good starter. The idea is to look it up when you wake in the night and obsess over the idea that something may be wrong with you.
yeah after three girlfriends got scared that I would stop breathing at night, I finally got a cpap machine because the last one was dead set on me getting one.
From the US? The Yellowstone super caldera is over due for a massive eruption. From the west coast? “The big one” is also well over due. Enjoy.
Good things to have in the starter pack but you gotta throw in the “latest and greatest” Super El Niño.
From Africa? A lake full of trapped carbon dioxide might be about to flow downhill and suffocate an entire city.
From earth? Just look around, you’ll find enough
“What if I run out of money and have some kind of emergency?” is a pretty common one
I remember as a child, I just started wondering what is stopping knives from floating up and shanking me.
Easy, “why would knives even want to shank me though, I’m nothing…”
