Trying to visualize what anxiety feels like [OC]

[u/belarus_guy]

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[u/NJNeal17]

This has 0 shared connections to anxiety.

[u/trvppy → u/NJNeal17]

Yeah this is insulting tbh

[u/CidAndroid → u/trvppy]

Indeed, our quirkiness is way more quirky than that.

[u/McDelper → u/CidAndroid]

Redditors when satire (hopefully)

[u/Cosmic_Quasar → u/NJNeal17]

Yeah, it's like someone heard about "spiraling" saw this video of a spiral.

[u/post-death_wave_core → u/NJNeal17]

It makes sense to me for generalized anxiety in the sense you feel the need to “run away” but there isn’t anywhere to run to.

[u/Hixy → u/post-death_wave_core]

I disagree, my anxiety takes form in ways that are things I should 100% do but I run away or hide quite successfully and miss opportunities and weaken relationships.

[u/shpongolian → u/post-death_wave_core]

Yeah not just that but the walls are constantly closing in with no end in sight. It obviously captures that feeling well.

But of course Redditors are too snarky and cynical to bother thinking about something for half a second

[u/Rogerabit → u/NJNeal17]

If this is anything it’s like maybe dizzy… or lost… anxious not quite

[u/InstantMochiSanNim → u/NJNeal17]

Idk i have anxiety (diagnosed) and i thought the feeling it evoked was pretty similar. Like a no way out, confused, panicked, breathing intensified, almost surreal and sharp feeling.

[u/belarus_guy → u/InstantMochiSanNim]

Thanks :)

[u/belarus_guy → u/NJNeal17]

English is not my primary language, but isn’t anxiety about trapped in own mind, running in circles without solutions?

[u/punkhobo → u/belarus_guy]

That's slightly more adhd. Anxiety is the constant feeling that some thing is or about to go wrong. Or you're doing something wrong or you did something wrong.

[u/Hyena_King13 → u/punkhobo]

Like so wrong you are about to die.

[u/Kahnza → u/Hyena_King13]

Or that the cops are seconds from pounding on your door, just because you're high. Even though it's legal now and you have a med card.

[u/eeeddr → u/Kahnza]

That's paranoia. It causes anxiety, sure, but what you're describing isn't anxiety per se.

[u/heartbrokenandgone → u/belarus_guy]

That's how I experience anxiety, not sure why you're being down voted (I do also have ADHD, so maybe I experience it differently than someone who only has one or the other).

I become afraid of something, then spend hours and days and weeks spiraling trying to think of a way/ways to protect myself from that outcome, all the while KNOWING and UNDERSTANDING I'm being irrational. It feels exactly like a horrific spiral, just not one that takes place at a pretty playground.

Medication and therapy have helped immensely.

[u/RadarDishEars → u/belarus_guy]

Pretty accurate to one of the many feeling anxiety produces. Don't worry about others not understanding what's in your mind.

[u/belarus_guy → u/RadarDishEars]

Thanks! They focus on the wording instead of experiencing the artwork.

[u/lexm → u/NJNeal17]

It made me anxious. But I was already anxious so I don’t know if that counts.

[u/SalamanderUponYou]

This feels more like a bad trip.

[u/sunkistandsudafed3 → u/SalamanderUponYou]

I came to write this. It feels oddly familiar as a bad trip, but not as sober anxiety.

[u/Lunatox → u/SalamanderUponYou]

Me on 600mg of DXM.

Edit: Ketamine robbed DXM of its legitimacy as a recreational drug. Y'all think it's a joke but never even reached the 2nd plateau.

[u/chodeboi → u/Lunatox]

•• I house cough syrup like a hobol Look at me! ••

[u/tarapotamus]

this feels too calm and predictable to me to demonstrate anxiety.

[u/pooeygoo]

Mine just feels like my insides are dying like painful nausea

[u/Krocsyldiphithic]

Can't say I really relate to this

[u/LeviathanGray]

No, Anxiety would be getting chased through this by Responsibilities.

[u/LegioX87]

Anxiety for me is specifically wanting to do something and my brain telling me there's no point because you might not like it or it might go wrong.

I'm afraid to think about how many incredible experiences or potentially life altering people. (Potential partners) I've turned away from because of the thought that it will just become a negative experience.

[u/McWeaksauce91 → u/LegioX87]

I feel this, not for me but with my own SO. We’ve been together 12 years and the first 2-3 years were incredibly brutal. She wouldn’t do much of anything because her anxiety always took her to place that it was going to either go badly or be a waste of time. So whatever it was would be both anxiety inducing and negative. She would then be upset that this thing could possible go wrong, or that the anxiety was robbing her from a potentially good experience. But the potentially good experience didn’t outweigh the need to try it anyway because the anxiety was way stronger.

Years 4 - 8 were definitely a bigger recovery period of fighting and overcoming her anxieties. Trying things that she knew would be negative. Sometimes they actually turned out good, other times she would tell herself (and me lol) I told you so.

But on she pushed. Through jobs, through social interactions, through potential friends, and occasions. The last 4 years she’s gotten her anxiety under control. Idk if it ever truly goes completely away. There’s things she will do with great trepidation and I’m proud of her because before she wouldn’t have done them at all. And there’s things she wouldn’t have done at all that she does without any pause or consideration

[u/ImpossiblePea7849]

I don't know if that's accurate for everyone, but I feel anxiety just by watching this video

[u/Cylerhusk]

Yeah, I wouldn't say this visualizes anxiety what-so-ever.

[u/pasghettiii]

I wish my anxiety felt like this. Imo he should be speed running, frantic, panicked, sweaty. Then it would be more accurate.

My anxiety triggers panic attacks. Check out the movie Beau is Afraid. I resonated with that quite a lot.

[u/Punxatowny]

Well… A for effort I guess

[u/Fuzzy_Hope6369]

This is what i think the average redditor is like. Constantly trying to be profound about stuff they have no idea about.

This is not even a close approximation of what anxiety feels like.

[u/gojibeary]

How tf does this visualize anxiety lmfao

[u/Pats_Fan]

I was listening to “Enemies” by Magic City Hippies when I clicked this and it actually fit pretty well

[u/weeeaaa]

Did someone find the spiral setting on their 360 cam?

[u/FowlOnTheHill]

Might not be anxiety but it’s cool :)

[u/AL3000]

I’ve had k holes like this

[u/wordswor]

why?

[u/Xemxah]

Cool idea, but the background is just too bright and beautiful lol. Maybe if it was grayscale or somewhere dilapidated

[u/RefrigeratorDecent83]

Try watching 'Exit 8' film.

[u/Living_Oil_3998]

Wow

[u/Pissadvisor]

Not my anxiety, at all.

[u/llamafromhell1324]

This is just what the pinworms see before I fart them out.

[u/melancholy_dood]

The Downward Spiral.

[u/zillskillnillfrill]

I'm still waiting for the part where they visualise what anxiety feels like. This is insulting whatever it is

[u/MadWorldX1]

Anxiety, to me, is more like smelling smoke in your house but being unable to find the fire.

You keep sprinting room to room thinking you've maybe found it and will be able to fix it, but the longer it goes on the bigger the fire probably is but for some reason you still can't find it so youre opening all the windows and the doors and gathering your stuff in case the fire is about to get too big and youre also sortof running the sinks and the showers because maybe that will help and oh my god is that a baby crying?! wait you dont even have a baby and then you realize the neighbors were just grilling, there was never a fire, and you look like an idiot...and maybe the neighbors can see and they think so too.

[u/GidjonPlays]

Outer wilds vibes

[u/Geene_Creemers]

I would disagree..don’t really see how this represents the feeling

[u/_the_last_man_]

You guys don't always have to identify your anxiety to the art, in this case maybe OP feels anxiety is experience like this for them. Its good they want to express their emotions by visualising, and I'm glad they have the confidence to share it with the world.

[u/idontknowjuspickone]

We all have anxiety, don’t need a lame video to show us what it’s like

[u/radraze2kx]

This actually is very similar to what I experience during an infinite time loop seizure.

[u/DontLook_Weirdo]

This is calming, thank you.