What is the strangest thing that triggers your anxiety?

[MullerInk]

For me it's when we are having a garden day, walking in and out of the garden to the kitchen. It makes me feel so sick with worry@

Holes! I'm triggered by different things you'd expect but I'm one of those people who feel anxious and disgusted to my pit with holes

continuous beeps and clusters of mushrooms

Model railways layouts or anything with tiny intricate pointy bits like circuit boards or pin cushions … just typing about it makes me start to sweat!

noisy car exhausts and any neighbour noise.

Stairs/steps without handrails.

Teardrops, Womack and Womack

It also used to be the Thomson Directory but I’m over that, it’s been years since I worked there.

Driving somewhere unfamiliar.

Halfords. I think it's because I had a panic attack in there once before and now when I go in there it seems to trigger the memory.

London underground escalators

My phone ringing 😕

Yep.

Shouty people, unexpected noises.

Loud people, having the tv/radio on in the background, music in shops, which seems to be in every shop these days.

Same. Even just thinking about those at Angel and Green Park makes my heart race.

Being at home all day and wondering if someone will make an unannounced visit.

Me too.

Changing weather

I don't know what they're called but those organ type things that play music at the fair

Me too, although it's more disgust than anxiety, and people that don't have it simply don't get how you can find something as innocent as a shower head so utterly revolting.

I get anxious when I know there aren't any toilets!

@amylou8 @FloofCloud trypophobia. Me too! 🤢

This is so weird I feel the same way

The strangest thing? Probably listening to radio 1. I find around 4/5 o clock in the summer triggers it. The thought of going away on holiday, the thought of not going away, and then actually being on holiday, then coming home 😂

Kids kicking a ball. Just the sound of the bounce sets me on edge.

Letters through the door, that could be unexpected bills, or letters saying my housing benefit has gone down, usually claiming an overpayment that turns out to be incorrect, but still causes worry.

Sunday evening before work in Monday knowing my work phone used to constantly ring from 8.30am onwards.
Now I set it to silent to get any work done and arrange times for speaking to people on the phone- so much better and can organise my thoughts beforehand and I can control my anxiety.