#Anxiety is an urgent

[authenticity2025]

Anxiety is an urgent, deafening thing. No matter how many logical reasons you have to remain happy or positive, when it is present, you can hear nothing else. Beau Taplin

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! It's weird question time again! So that doctor I mentioned before that I wanted to make a dog plushie for because he has improved my quality of life so much* (and also inexplicably reminds me of like a greyhound or a borzoi) is my endocrinologist And, as my endocrinologist, he recommended back in December that I go see a rheumatologist, because he thinks I might have rheumatoid arthritis**. The staff at his office have been trying to get a rheumatologist for four months now. I know that, because yesterday I got a call from the rheumatologist's office and the nurse I spoke to said "Your doctor's office has been very...persistent about getting you this appointment" So now I kinda want to get something for the whole office? But idk what I could get them or make them. Like, in non-medical contexts I'd make cookies or brownies for a group, but I can't bring cookies to a doctor's office. I mean, I guess I could, but if I were them I would definitely not eat them, and I run the risk of allergy-ing a fellow patient. Is there like a gift basket or gift card or thank you card or something you can recommend?

*I mean he maybe should have found a diagnosis before offering me steroids about it but the low dose steroids have made such a HUGE difference in my quality of life I am thrilled with Tennessee's weird (to me, with my experience in California) medical practices **I don't think I have enough joint pain for it to be rheumatoid arthritis, but he's like the fourth doctor to tell me it's weird that when I got hives they usually started on joints, so maybe I'm wrong? I have the weird version of enough medical things that at this point I would not be surprised if I had Weird Rheumatoid Arthritis.

[valewritessss]

My friend just made me download Airbuds how do I explain me listening to the entire Hamilton track

[loser-jpg]

somehow being very close to getting a job is the scariest part of the process. WHAT IF MY BOSS GETS MAD THAT ITS TAKING ME A WHILE TO FILL OUT THE STUDENT EMPLOYMENT FORMS SINCE I HAD TO ASK MY DAD A QUESTION AND HE DIDNT RESPOND FOR 2 DAYS AND DECIDES TO IMMEDIATELY FIRE ME BC I TOOK TOO LONG.

[marrowy]

well with shit burning down around us i've got some crazy and hopeful news finally. it only took uhhhh a few years but i finally got a doctor to refer me to a cardiologist and my insurance approved it so i might finally know what's been going on with my heart

[waywardvagabonds]

Trying to be patient but would really love it if i had a therapy appointment scheduled by now.

[lashysdomain]

I just want to not be sick

[hillbillyoracle]

Bought Tetris on Steam about 12 hours ago. Apparently I then played it for 10 of those hours. I am the calmest I've been in weeks.

[softmenace]

Guess who had sudden intense chest pain and got dizzy at work today and couldn't breathe and almost went to the ER. Not a heart attack. Just a dumb anxiety attack. 🙃

[warmestshrine]

My friend S died by suicide two years ago today. I was sitting in the doctor's waiting room this morning and S's favourite song came on the radio. Like okay. Slay. Thank you, S. I miss you.

Um. Then five minutes later my GP told me to go get an urgent CT scan because there's a chance I have a blood clot in my lungs. Iconic day tbh.

[catastrxblues]

i just can’t seem to take anything seriously anymore? why is my future in my hands like what did i do to deserve it what if i don’t know what to do with it what if i don’t really care about it anymore what if i don’t even want to think about it anymore

[demo-ness]

i haven't been hypochondria-posting because i've been too busy doing finals, but for the record, i've been freaking out a little. tee hee.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Weird question for you, because this is one of those things where I know I am considered an outlier but idk how much of an outlier: What do you (or your doctors) consider tachycardia/high heart rate? I think I've heard a resting heartrate of over 100 is considered tachycardia, but what level is like "this level happens when people without heart/circulatory issues get sick sometimes" and what level is like "don't know what, but something isn't working right"

I have Weird, Least Dangerous Tachycardia (aka idiopathic but not inappropriate* tachycardia, completely without arrhythmias) so idk where those thresholds are for more, uh, typical tachycardia? To be clear, I am not having tachycardia issues at the moment and am not looking for medical advice, just curious what is considered tachycardia to other people

*translating from doctor speak, basically it's appropriate because it's in response to low blood pressure (so it's not an inappropriate/wrong response), but it's idiopathic because they don't know why I have such low blood pressure. The without arrhythmias thing means that, even when going faster than it should, my heart has never had a beat out of rhythm (which is good! but weird!)

[kittentism]

had single moment just woke up clarity now entire body brain feel horrible fuzzy weird bad like feel like *I* aware conscious but brain just lagging behind stagnant and cant control self jerk twitch and hurt self just try rub eye because control body right hard (making lot typo try write post)

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

I dropped and broke my cold brew pitcher mere hours before my coffee would be done brewing, and I actually cried.

Life isn't going so great for me right now and I am just barely coping by displacing my anxiety into horror films. I really wanted a cup of sweet, caramelly coffee in the morning and I was robbed of that by gravity and I cried about it.

[bisonaari]

Reminder that my dms are always open if you're not feeling great and you need to have a chat with someone I might not respond right away, but I will read you and be with you. Always <3