What real thing in your immediate life are you afraid of or anxious about?

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i.e. not clowns, unless you're in the circus.

― fear, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Afraid and anxious are two rather different things. Which do you want?

― She's In Parties (kate), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

sudden death
wasting time
being taken advantage of
being thought of in negative ways

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Whichever you prefer!

― fear, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

unless real things means physical objects or subjects. in which case, forget those four.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

letter from NYC saying "get a tenant lawyer or move to Midwood"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

it gets harder for me to go out in public

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

At the moment, the thing I am most stressed/anxious/freaked out about is my band. I don't know why. It's not like I get performance anxiety or stage fright or anything, I'm just consumed with the PH34R.

That we won't have rehearsed enough, that too many demands are being made of me, that things aren't perfect enough, that we can't do all the things we want to do. I feel anxious about it ALL THE TIME lately.

I mean, I'm not afraid at all, but I feel very very anxious.

― She's In Parties (kate), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Upcoming court case.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

being poor
being single
getting fat
going bald

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

being unemployable

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I am growing anxious about my growing stress levels, at work, relationships, etc. - afraid that with my health and my weight and stress levels, I'm lining up to join the Heart Attack Before 40 Club.

Which is kind of circular, really.

― She's In Parties (kate), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Finding a new place to live.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that I'm spending 3/4 of my take-home pay on rent and bills at the moment isn't exactly cheering me up.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

People I love dying

― Dadaismus PBUH (Dada), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

anxious about:
lack of funds.
identity theft.
conservative govt + fundamentalism.
am i getting smarter or dumber?
that thing about how you can cook an egg with two cell phones.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah that my rent was due yesterday.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

me too on that part about finding a place to live

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

that thing about how you can cook an egg with two cell phones.

I tried that, 60 min call and the egg was still raw. That should be one worry lifted :-)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

... um, where does the egg go, in this experiment?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Finding a new place to live

Ditto, that's the only thing that's bothering me at the moment.

Mark p, going bald isn’t so bad, it’s not like you’ll be the only person with no hair!

Get a grip man!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

getting married in eleven days
moving to nyc
finding a job there
making enough money
having a kid

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Life is really financially unstable right now, and I'm freaked that at some point later in the future I'll have to give up trying to hack it in portland and move back to michgigan.

Also, that my lack of recent decent tech experience(along with the slowly recovering tech economy) will prevent me from getting a better dayjob.

I've had to anxiety attacks/"episodes" about all this in the last 3 months.

My anxiety level is about the worst it's ever been in a very long time, to where I don't go out during the week as much as I should. It's completely drowned out any bit of dystymia or depression, tho.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

... um, where does the egg go, in this experiment?

In between two phones that are calling each other.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Mine are all to do with money:

Hard disk failure (everything is backed up but can't afford to buy another laptop at this moment)

Plumbing disaster - boiler blowing up, the embarrassment of flooding downstairs flat, and being in debt for years to pay for a new one

Being able to afford to go on holiday.

Being poor in old age, despite working by then for 40 years (I dont seem to be able to save any money)

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

getting married in eleven days

Do you mean in eleven days, you're getting married and you're anxious about it, or that you have some sort of abstract fear that although you don't have any plans yet, somehow in twelve days time you'll be married?

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

it gets harder for me to go out in public
-- ai lien (amdrahei...) (webmail), Today 9:15 AM. (kold_krush) (later)

this has been happening to me a lot since i got here. social freak outs.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

i am actually getting married eleven days from now, yes

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yay for marriage! You'll do fine. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

i'm actually not all that stressed about the marriage itself, apart from the usual 'uh oh but i still find other people attractive' thing, but getting the day itself to come off properly is a bit worrying

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

thx nath!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

COngratulations. Don't be anxious, the whole thing will be a pleasant blur. (perhaps you can put off the having a kid anxiety until after that, at least?)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

i am actually getting married eleven days from now, yes
-- mookieproof (mookieproo...) (webmail), Today 9:55 AM. (mookieproof) (later)

congratulations!

pleasant plains and i just had our first anniversary recently and in the weeks leading up to it we both must have said a hundred times 'OH MY GOD I AM SO HAPPY ITS NOT THIS TIME LAST YEAR!' Still, two days after our anniversary it was 'OH MY GOD I WISH IT WAS LAST YEAR'. Honeymoon + snow, yo.

you'll do fine and have a great time, of course, but wedding planning is way too stressful. look towards the honey.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Mark p, going bald isn’t so bad, it’s not like you’ll be the only person with no hair!

A-fucking-men.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

NB I am not scared of fucking men.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, fucking men isn't somthing in my life I have to worry about.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm . .

anxious about getting through the upcoming move.

That's probably the only tangible thing.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

(x-post)

markeby doth protest too much.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i like to think of ilx couples sitting around the house calling each other by their screen names.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

that i am never going to be able to support myself finically

― anthony, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, fucking men isn't something in my life I have to worry about.

It comes naturally! ;-)

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Court. The law. (My date is Feb. 21)

― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

nothing, really

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

the internet startup i work for going bellyup.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am worried my car will break down for good.
And that it will rain, meaning we can't finish the job we're working on.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Wrecking my motorbike.

Oh, I don't have lyme disease btw. The doctor called last week. It was the right kind of tick but not a carrier.

― andy --, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

1. new job. which should make me happy and does mostly, but my brain is fuxored and won't allow me to really enjoy anything and change frightens me.

2. depression/anxiety attacks returning despite best efforts. and i turn into a terrible hypochondriac at these times and decide i'm probably dying and it's going to be soon which leads to...

3. scared of dying before paying off debts and generally cleaning up around the place. don't want to leave burdens for family/friends behind.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

-Working insanely hard to make sure something's perfect, and later finding out that I've screwed up a couple of infinitesimal but not unimportant details.

-Feeling inadequate because this always happens. It makes me wanna not try anymore.

― fear, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

that I will not return to full health soon

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

that the migraine meds will not work and this time, my head will explode.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

afraid - of nothing in particular
anxious - bills bills bills

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

also, being proved a failure and having all my fears and dark mumblings to myself confirmed.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

traffic court tomorrow (i was going 20 over... thought it was a 65 but was a 55)

don't have much funds with which to pay impending ticket

decided 2 weeks ago that i really want to go to grad school and trying to get application together by 1 march

packing and trying to fit everything i own into a honda odyssey so i can (temporarily) move to south carolina to save some money

― tehresa (tehresa), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

the buttnernut squash soup i just ate temporarily gave my anxious brain some peace. mmm.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Anxious?

Debts
A girl
A career path I'm on
Being a better (B-)man

― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'm getting a cold sore :(

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit. get that fixed before the wedding night.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I KNOW

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

my cat being sick
having a baby
the baby being sick
the baby being anything less than perfect
losing my wife's income after the birth
losing my wife
losing all my friends

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

That I'm going to f*** up my new job.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

In no particular order:

Celtic's defensive frailties.
People I care about dying.
My upcoming appraisal at work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

People I care about dying.

This was a definite fear of mine until last fall when someone I loved very much passed away. Now I can safely say that while I certainly don't relish the thought of future deaths I'm not afraid of them.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

See, I'm currently trying to reassure someone that people have built-in coping mechanisms to deal with the loss of a loved one. Having never experienced it myself, I'm only going on what I've witnessed in others. I just don't fancy having to find it out for myself.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

For me a lot of the built-in mechanisms turned out to be my family. Some of them took it far worse and I had to really put my efforts towards keeping them together.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

I am anxious about my Spanish. I've been in Spain four months, and I've got another four to go, and I'm so far from being fluent. I don't think I'll really be able to achieve fluency in the time I've got left (so maybe never...) but this anxiety is a good thing, because it is spurring me on to try harder.
I don't know whether it counts as a real thing in my immediate life, but I worry a lot that I will never be able to understand all those important, complicated questions the world throws at me.

I also quite often get a sort of sudden panic that I've forgotten something terribly important, but I can never think what it might be.

None of these things are really fear though. Nothing in my immediate life scares me that much, that I can think of.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

I just got news that my job is about to change in ways that I really don't like (location and tasks). Way to cast a shadow over my vacation!

― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:57 (twelve years ago)

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