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“What if I run out of money and have some kind of emergency?” is a pretty common one
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Maybe all my friends secretly hate me and think I’m super annoying.
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Could that weird cramping feeling be the first signs of cancer?
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Did I make sure my door fully latched? What if it blows open in the wind, my cat gets out, and some car runs over them?
Get out of my brain.
What if all my friends secretly hate me, find me super annoying, and are all just waiting for the right moment to tell me?
It’s great 'cause all social interactions become a minfield!
What if worrying about this causes you to be super-annoying?
It’s the circle…of life!
What was that sting pain on my chest?? Is it a early sign of an heart attack???
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Beginner worries aren’t necessarily what’s most common but maybe more what’s lightest. Did I remember to turn off the light before leaving the room? Did I just say “Love you” to my coworker? Does my phone have enough charge for the rest of the day? Inconsequential things.
When you think those enough and can’t even handle them, it’s then that you can graduate to more difficult anxieties like “Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?” or “Will anyone even notice if I’m gone?”
Some skills require long term practice. ASAP start to develop deep doubts about your adequation to your work. Are you not an absolute impostor? And if so, when and how will the grand revelation of your ineptitude happen?
If you’re new to the world of anxiety, start small:
Lower the expectations from others & yourself when in public (this includes the Internet)
Lower your reliance for & of the support of others
Pick a favorite thing and spend a bunch of time fixating on how it might help
Finally (and this is most important), explore various types of cheese, regardless of tolerance to lactose.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Hyper-fixate on establishing certainty in an uncertain universe. Rely on consistency as emotional support. Only feel safe when all possible failure points are 100% guaranteed protected against. Ruminante and endlessly catastrophise even the slightest crack or worry. Focus on things that are impossible to verify but statistically unlikely.
Don’t let anyone convince you that you’re fine and nobody cares. Make it an obsession. Make more knowledge work against you. Really research the topic and learn way too much about it. Learn how impossible it is to ensure and guarantee anything 100%. Really froth yourself up into a full scale panic attack.
This is entry level? I guess I’m one of those manhua characters that gets super powerful by practicing a basic sword swing a billion times or some shit …
Training my Cheat Anxiety Skill to Lv 999 Every Day so the Villainess Cannot Mind Control Me
…I’d read it lol
Did you lock the door?
But did you tho?
Ah, the classics
(wait, did I lock the door?)
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Wait did i bring all i needed for today?
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…
Every time I discover I didn’t, I add another check.
I don’t know if “Did you lock the door?” is beginner anxiety. Seems more a delicacy of hyper vigilance anxiety from PTSD; more higher tier stuff. Like starting on a sip of the strong stuff.
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…”
When I collapse and unable to move, how long will it take before my cat begins to eat my body?
My personal mixture when snoozing in the wee hours, dancing deftly between imagination and dreams:
"OH SHIT OH FUCK DID I MISS MY ALARM???’
A classic is to wait at the supermarket check out for another person to get back while you hold up the entire line.
Is the oven on? Go check
Do you think you are good enough to be anxious?
I genuinely want to see what gatekeeping anxiety looks like
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! "
Ahhh. Fond memories. They were simpler times. “Duck and cover!” and under our desks we’d go.
That was some fun anxiety fodder… The adults taking care of us were telling us being under our desks would save us from a nuclear blast.
“Okay boomer, and how many school shooter drills did you run?”
Pretty sure it’s supposed to be like an imposter syndrome thing which, as someone with medically treated anxiety, can happen very easily.
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
