• ______@lemm.ee
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      I have anxiety. It’s funny because I don’t feel anything until it happens.its like my brain remembers “hey you should feel bad” and it happens, otherwise I’m cool as a cucumber

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        Does yours feel like an unwanted guest arriving in your consciousness? Like you feel it arrive before you even start having anxious thoughts?

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          I definitely do feel it arrive. I’m not sure how to word it except it feels like everything is going to turn out bad and I have to talk myself manually that everything will be fine. This goes for things as simple as a haircut , meeting or any kind of socializing.

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            Yep, that lines up pretty well with my experience! Glad to know I have a kindred spirit, haha

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      I, for one, almost died at a mass shooting.

      My body has left in a permanent state of pain and suffering, where every few days the pain intensifies and there is next to nothing I can do about it.

      What about you?

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          I’m in a permanent constant state of pain everyday. My entire existence is pain. I’m not sure what else you need me to go through to prove my existential dread.

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              I don’t know why you’re gate keepint existential dread, but here is the APA’s definition: “a profound, deep-seated psychic or spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in relation to the human condition and the meaning of life.”

              I’m feeling plenty of despair to the human condition and the meaning of life. I wake up everyday and ask myself why live and exist at all when existence is nothing but pain.

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                    Same. Definition you gave, you’re just misinterpreting it.

                    “in relation to the human condition and the meaning of life.” Not your life specifically, life in general. The general human condition, not your specific circumstances. It’s a pretty common phrase.

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      Why is everyone so anxious nowadays?

      For me it’s financial, though as a middle-aged person I am nowadays also plagued with metaphysical questions.

      About the financial part, I’m actually very well-off but the world has become such a complex place (or it always was and I am only realizing it now at my age) and I have little to no control over most aspects of it. I don’t want to lose what I have worked towards because of geo-politics, climate change impact, global recession, or such things. It’s not an existential crisis for me but there is some amount of anxiety and dread that I previously did not have.

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      Dread is a Reddit-like dark web discussion forum featuring news and discussions around darknet markets. The site’s administrators go by the alias of Paris and HugBunter.