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Never Have I Ever: Anxiety Edition
Hilarious and heart-breaking things an anxiety disorder makes you do.
While anxiety disorders are no joke, they do make you do some pretty funny things. Holding an apple core for an hour because you’re too afraid to get up and put it in the rubbish bin. Spending hours petting a cat at a party because you’re afraid of social interaction. You know what I mean.
The list goes on — and I want to share it with you.
As a long-term diagnosee of anxiety (GAD and social anxiety in particular), I want to run through the list of funny and sad things I’ve done as a direct result of the panic in my chest. Think of it like a game of Never Have I Ever — only without the shots.
Never Have I Ever…
1. Been fired from a customer-facing job
One of the most embarrassing and shameful things that has ever happened to me is losing my first-ever job. I was a waitress at one of the most popular restaurants in town — but not for long.
As it turns out, when you have anxiety, communicating with customers and coworkers is nearly impossible. It’s also completely necessary to do the job. Yeah, I found myself in quite the pickle when it came to taking orders, speaking up in the kitchen and getting the attention of rowdy…
