I'm sure many of you can relate to "free floating anxiety," a sort of low level buzz of anxiety not attached to any particular worry.
I often get sort of the opposite of that: I'll be feeling pretty positive, and then I'll stop and let my brain "focus," and it always remembers something that I "should" be worrying about. Boom. Dread.
This week, I've been wandering around with free floating anxiety instead. Several times I've stopped to get that "anxiety focus" and found that there's not actually anything to be worrying about. Weird! Now I wish I could get the anxiety to go away, too.
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1 year ago
Bummer. Sorry you have that. It's strange, but since my OCD has gotten better, I have less overall anxiety, but now I occasionally (a few times a week) have like little panic/anxiety attacks. They come on real suddenly and then they leave suddenly. Anxiety is weird.
ReplyDeleteI have free-floating anxiety, too, and like you, I try to figure out why. Sometimes I can't. I try to ride it out and stay calm about it--accepting it--but it sure is hard. I hope your's goes away soon.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya, free floating anxiety is something the comes my way every so often. I try to just ignore it and chalk it up to the fact that it IS going to happen, I have anxiety disorders, and it's not the end of the world. Funny how when I get a spell of anxiety I think the absolute worst of it and myself, when it's really just a disorder. It'll be gone soon, and you'll be better. Know that it comes and goes and you have the control to know that.
ReplyDeleteTotally understand, feel that way myself sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI was trying to describe what it felt like to my husband the other day . . . so hard to describe, yet so palpably felt. Ugh! Buzz is a really accurate word though - it almost feels like my brain is buzzing.
ReplyDeleteI also identify with feeling happy and suddenly remembering something to dread. Ugh ugh ugh. And then it's like there's no escape, or I have to think my way out of it (doesn't work for me).
I can definitely relate to the free-floating anxiety, even without OCD. I can also relate to that feeling of having to have something to worry about. If I have nothing to worry about then I worry about why there's nothing to worry about :)
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