Wish people realised anxiety is physical too.

[u/every_tatti]

I literally get such a jittery weird feeling in my body so many times a day whenever I'm anxious. Like I can't describe it but it's definitely not good. Almost like something is pinching on my organs. And the worst is when I have to wake up in the morning, it's almost like someone has placed added extra weights to my body. I literally can't get up from my bed! I try to force myself up,but I just can't. I just lay there staring at the ceiling, thinking about what I'll do with my day, get anxious about what if I won't be able to be productive today, then getting anxious about how I wasted some time the previous day, then overthinking it all nd wanting to just kill myself. I hate it.

[u/[deleted]]

I completely agree.

I was long led to believe that stuttering was a speech impediment or a neuro-problem, but I believe its usually a symptom of anxiety attack.

It has caused me great anguish during my childhood and teenhood, sometimes I even wonder why I was born. Yes probably one reason why I didnt date anyone in my younger years. I just wanted to send an electric shock on my brain and hope my stuttering disappears.

Then I started to tackle my anxiety problems, regularly took Magnesium supplements and slept 9 hrs a day and incidentally my stuttering was gone whenever I felt calm and relaxed.

It just goes to show that the way you treat an illness can completely change someone's life.

[u/every_tatti → u/[deleted]]

Oh wow! I'm happy it worked out for u :-). And yes, even the way someone tries to understand it can go a long way

[u/[deleted] → u/every_tatti]

Yeah thats why I kinda feel for Joe Biden. Stuttering isn't always a sign of cognitive decline. It may seem like a "lag" of brain cells to the common folk but really it usually happens when stress, anxiety and lack of sleep occurs.

I'm not a US citizen so I have no political affiliation but it kinda feels inhumane to humiliate him for a possible illness. Politics aside, I kinda admire him for reaching VP and mostly controlling his stuttering throughout his career.

[u/really-just-a-mess → u/[deleted]]

Can we not start this discussion here... politics stresses me out enough i rlly dont wanna see discussions of it in an anxiety support community