what triggers your anxiety?

[drifter]

and what worries you most about your your future?

[McNamara]

My triggers for anxiety include but are not limited to ..........

• Feeling overwhelmed about money
• Worrying about work
• The thought that someone is judging me or speaking badly of me
• When I think I've said something I shouldn't
• When I feel I haven't worked hard enough (even though my boss thinks my work is stellar most of the time and tells me so)
• Worrying about my daydreaming
• Worrying about being mentally ill (go figure!)
• Not getting enough sleep
• Any new situation I can't plan for
• Any social sitation
• Taking part in an important meeting and feeling I'm not going to sound knowledgeable
• Violent films or TV programmes, sad or worrying news on TV, radio or the press
• Body issues
• I could go on.......................!

[Mira]

Ditto. Especially about the sleep- when I have too many days of insomnia, my exhaustion is made worse by my own desperate frustration and anxiety. Once I start worrying about insomnia, the insomnia gets worse. 

I'm very, very, VERY self-conscious about EVERYTHING that I do. How I look, how I talk, how I move, what I'm doing with my hands or how my hair looks at any given moment. I even sleep better when I'm alone in bed, because I think on some level I'm self-conscious about falling asleep with another person there. I can't seem to do much of anything un-self-consciously. I'm always worried that I'm annoying or inconveniencing those around me. 

When I find out a person is at all judgmental, I become easily paranoid that they're judging ME, and that they must hate me. Even if there's absolutely no indication of it whatsoever. Judgmental people kind of make my life a living hell, without really meaning to.

McNamara said:

My triggers for anxiety include but are not limited to ..........

• Feeling overwhelmed about money
• Worrying about work
• The thought that someone is judging me or speaking badly of me
• When I think I've said something I shouldn't
• When I feel I haven't worked hard enough (even though my boss thinks my work is stellar most of the time and tells me so)
• Worrying about my daydreaming
• Worrying about being mentally ill (go figure!)
• Not getting enough sleep
• Any new situation I can't plan for
• Any social sitation
• Taking part in an important meeting and feeling I'm not going to sound knowledgeable
• Violent films or TV programmes, sad or worrying news on TV, radio or the press
• Body issues
• I could go on.......................!

[Amy Buttz]

Anything I can't do myself tends to trigger anxiety.  Lack of sleep realy does it.  I am not totally sure what else, I don't pay much attention to what starts it up, I pay more attention to making it go away.