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What Does Your Anxiety Feel Like?

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What does your anxiety feel like?

I'd love to ask this question of everybody who cares to share. There's obviously this shortness of breath, like you're breathing, but it feels like you're suffocating. I feel guilt, I've done nothing wrong, but my mind is racing trying to disprove me. Anxiety holds on long enough I feel anger, I lash out at those who don't deserve it. I feel fucking tired, no amount of sleep is enough to fix it. I feel embarrassed, I've suppressed it long enough that I'm confident only those closest to me can see it, but I feel embarrassment as a grown man experiencing these feelings. In my mind I'm manic, but I'm physically immobile. All I can muster here is this ramble, and that's maybe the clearest description of what my anxiety feels like.

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