The Madding Crowd

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Hi, I’m Shaky

Bad day today. Honestly, my anxiety is a curse!

It feels like a strangle hold over the entire body and mind like a raging animal in the wild that cannot be tamed. The body reacts like a boiler triggered by a switch, depending on what frightens me. And it can trigger the boiler to erupt at any time.

The first stage is a surge of heat that races through the muscles causing a rise in body temperature, like an after effect of excessive cardio at the gym. Next stage is the feeling of wanting the toilet, because the urge seems uncontrollable to resist. Attempting the mind to reason with this outbreak of panic is like a computer going into overload from the effects of a virus in need of a anti-spyware software tool to counteract it.


After all, how we react to everyday life situations varies from person to person, except a person with anxiety feels overwhelmed by such a bodily reactions. So it feels like my body has been taken over by this virus, and little else seems up to the challenge of taming such a raging animal back into its cage.

With that, I bid you good night.

Ciao

Shaky

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