The super anxious vs those with normal levels of anxiety - differences in daily life experiences?

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I’d like to hear from those with high anxiety - what situations cause you anxiety? What situations do you feel chilled/relaxed?

And the same for those who would consider themselves to have normal levels of anxiety?

The reason I ask is because I read a thread on here where the OP was saying that going to the hairdressers is her chill out / relaxation time, whereas for me, it’s such a point of high anxiety that I’ve been cutting my own hair for the past 20 years to avoid it. So that was quite eye opening to me, and I thought, wow that must be nice! (not in a catty way, genuinely). Yet I’m sure there are situations where that person is anxious, as well.

People have such wildly different experiences of navigating even the most mundane of daily activities. For example, if the phone rings I panic. I hate talking on the phone. I can talk to people in person but when it’s just a voice, it’s the worst.

Although I agree it's mostly worries/ anxiety that are part of life, for some of us it becomes blown up out of proportion ( which I know is all in the head at times, but hard to stop rationally )
I've had counseling and tablets prescribed and tried most things to lessen the worries but I've realized that it won't just ' go away' and I've had to learn to live with it and try to learn coping mechanisms to overcome it all and tell myself it'll be fine. It's not easy though!

@SirChenjins god that must be awful !

Since having children i have immediate images of ambulances ect as soon as anything unusual happens. But i imagine most parents do catastrophise to some extent.

We had youngest DD (10) s best mate over to play a couple of weekends ago and they asked to go out front in the lane and wait for the ice cream van. (we could hear it coming round the village). Neither of them are 'street wise' and this was exciting for them.

I said yes and went back to my book in the garden and sort of zoned out. Only 10 minutes went by but when i 'came round' i felt like i'd lost ages because i hadn't been sitting there like a meercat for once! As i went through the house I could 'hear' myself on the phone to the police ... ''i'm not sure what time they went out !!!! I was reading!! We've looked everywhere'' ect. I could picture the friend's mother blaming me for some awful axe murder of the kids and it's all on the news ...

They were still just sitting on the wall outside and i left them alone 🙄 😂 I just felt such a prat to panic!