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#Anxiety culture
a-sip-of-milo · 6 months
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Anxiety culture is standing outside of a building for fifteen minutes before going inside because you need to figure out how the doors open, where the receptionist desk is, etc. before you even consider making a move.
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ndcultureis · 1 month
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Anxiety culture is being able to help your friends with their anxiety worries, but being unable to apply your own words to yourself. It just feels so much realer when someone else says it, instead of trying to convince myself.
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anxiety-culture-is · 1 year
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anxiety culture is editing a comment multiple times because you keep worrying that you'll be misunderstood
Noooo because it is true /hj
I do that too
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doodleninja · 1 year
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social anxiety be like:
Me: *sends absolutely harmless message to group chat* *not even 10 seconds later* Me: I CAN FEEL THEIR JUDGING LOOKS THROUGH THE SCREEN.
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breaddisgoodd · 1 year
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feminemmeline · 1 year
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Nothing makes me feel more invisible than when nobody moves aside for you when you say "excuse me" on public transportation
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anxiety culture is getting annoyed when people use anxiety as a noun or use it as a replacement for nervous
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vangoghinthehead · 1 year
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i just want to tell everyone i know, that they're not paying attention. whether it's not recognizing how far i'm falling behind, or not noticing my lack of sexuality. i'm having dreams where i can't breathe, and no one is trying to help me. it's a metaphor, but no one is listening.
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wreckitremy · 2 years
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I've decided to call my anxiety Casey
Anxiety: something's wrong over there. Go check.
Me: nothings wrong, it's very unlikely this thing has occurred.
Anxiety: it doesn't hurt to go look
Me: ugh fiiiine, I'll go check it out
*checks*
Me: 'kay see? Nothing's wrong here
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anxietyfrappuccino · 2 years
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i feel like crying and i should probably just cry to cry and get it all out... but then nothing changes and the cycle continues and it hurts all over again
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helloyellow17 · 10 months
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Idk man I might get torn to shreds for saying this, but I simply cannot understand the new trend, particularly among younger internet users, where people write a laundry list of their triggers in their bio and then expect everyone to read and cater to said list on a PUBLIC PLATFORM.
This is the same mentality that drives people to attack appropriately tagged fics on AO3 for having x y or z content because “How dare you post this when I have trauma about this???” Obviously if someone is going to write a super heavy and highly sensitive fic and NOT tag it properly, they ought to be called out on it. But this isn’t about that, it’s about the people who don’t curate their own content, it’s about the people who enter public spaces and demand that the general public cater to THEM specifically.
Additionally: Listing out your triggers for everyone to see is just ASKING for trolls to come into your inbox and flood you with triggering content. (Unfortunately, as much as we would like to believe otherwise, the internet is full of selfish jerks who don’t give a crap about anybody’s trauma.) Not only this, but the algorithm does not read your bio. The algorithm does not care about your triggers unless YOU make sure to block specific tags and content.
YOU are responsible for curating your own content, and nobody else.
Obviously this is not to say people shouldn’t try to tag their posts for common triggers, because that’s the common courtesy thing to do. But if Becky has a phobia of bees, it is on her to block that tag and curate her feed around it, and she does not get the exclusive right to suddenly demand that nobody talk about bees within a ten mile radius of her. If Alec has a phobia of dogs, then it is well within his right to avoid contact with them, but he doesn’t get to go to a public park and yell at anybody who brings their dog there. It is his responsibility to know his own limits and seek out parks that are dog-free. (If someone brings a dog to a dog-free area, that’s a whole different issue that I won’t be getting into rn but yes, the person who does that is in the wrong there.)
The internet is widely a public space. If you want to create a safe space completely and utterly free of your specific triggers, you have to put the work in to make that space for yourself. You don’t get to ask other internet strangers to do it for you.
I’m saying this out of genuine concern (and admittedly, frustration) because there are so many young teens in fandom nowadays who don’t understand this, and they end up putting themselves in extremely vulnerable and even downright dangerous situations because they don’t understand that putting your well-being in the hands of a stranger is a terrible idea.
Please be safe, and for the love of all that is holy, be reasonable. Curating your content yourself is just as much a protection for you as it is a vital key that allows public communities to function.
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*tries to organize my thoughts*
*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*
*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*
(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next
#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment#so many innocent bystanders at stake#every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis#racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system#and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description#aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh#(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt.#but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.)#seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this.#the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later?#that is not cute. it is Alarming.#no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain#and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students#this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE#...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power#and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class#which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever#it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses...#anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you.#obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding#are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it#please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent#mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies#& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground#mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man
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ndcultureis · 2 years
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Adhd + anxiety culture is being stressed but forgetting why
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anxiety-culture-is · 1 year
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Anxiety Culture is stressing and stressing, stressing because you tried your hardest, stressing because you felt like you didn't, stressing because your absolutely sure, stressing because what if your wrong
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doodleninja · 1 year
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"hey i'm so sorry for not replying, i must've missed your email" is just so much easier to write and understand than "hey so my adhd object impermanence made me forget that your email even existed, then my social anxiety made me worry you would hate me if i replied now, and my avpd was telling me to just ignore you cause you probably don't like me anyway and i’m terrified of the rejection that might follow and honestly it's a miracle that i'm even replying now so haha i'm doing great, anyways here's the one sentence response that literally took me three months to send"
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breaddisgoodd · 1 year
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this is just me 24/7
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