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Ridiculous Anxiety (but now amusing) moment

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Driftingonawave · 22/06/2022 08:58

I've had debilitating anxiety all my life. But every now and again it excels itself. I descend into the adrenaline pumping, heart racing, inability to focus on any thing else type manifestation.

So I've been getting cramps in my right hand for a few days now, I've done a lot of digging in the garden and also use an apple pencil alot so rationally the over using it scenario made sense.

Until this morning when I woke up and looked at my hand and it had a purple tinge in some places, left one was normal. Clearly it was bruised without injury, i had a blood clot and was going to die. It could also be leukemia and I was going to die. It could also be kidney failure and I was going to die. Literally spent an hour googling and feeling physically sick.

In my absolute panic, I totally forgot that last night I had dyed my hair and used some purple shampoo.. one very good scrub later and its back to its delightful peachy colour. Now I feel like a complete tit.

Anyway, just thought I'd share because I was hilariously way off the mark and it just highlighted how ridiculous anxiety can actually get 😳

OP posts:
TibetanTerrah · 22/06/2022 10:30

Ah OP, it's nice you can smile at it. I don't have anxiety but I'm a bit of a dramatic ill person, I.e. a minor cold is always "man flu" (I'm a woman!). One day I was sitting on the sofa and blew my nose using the roll of novelty Christmas toilet paper my ex had bought. For a second I panicked thinking something was really wrong when there were bright red blood spots all over the tissue...

The toilet paper was a pattern of reindeer with red noses Grin

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