What Makes You Anxious/Nervous?
 

Not like whats your phobia but like what kind of thing makes you nervous or anxious.
does anyone ever get really anxious about something and how do you cope with it?

ill start. i usually get quite anxious when i have to meet new people. i dont know why just get so nervous. i dont really deal with it i just wait and it calms down.

Ordering food. I always get really nervous before I order thinking I'm gonna say something stupid. :joker:

Public speaking and presentations to large groups. years under my belt but still get the sleepless night before hand, and that sick feeling in the tummy right before it.

Public speaking definitely, luckily I never have to do it:tongue: oh, also driving to somewhere I've never been before, I get lost alot:shocked:

Being hit on.

really? why?

silences

Exams
Doing something for the first time
Calling those places for help with electronics and stuff, coz ik half the time they're either Indian and I can't understand them, or they talk about it in depth and I can't understand them and in the end make myself look like a twat

The M6

My body. Not how I look but on the inside. I hate it but I can't help but constantly think about things on the inside. I'm not a hypochondraic because I know I'm not sick or anything like that I just breakdown and analyze things way too much if I feel something inside.

Night, too. Another one I hate. I usually stay up until 4 or 5 and everything just seems really odd and dark around those hours whatever way my brain is working. It's a bit of a lonely, dead sort of time that makes me self reflect far too much. That's usually why I'm on the internet for that sense of contect with other people also awake.

The reverse is that I'm not willing to break that sleeping pattern. In a weird way I get off on it. It's like a little buzz.

Do you ever think about what your brain looks like? And what it actually does? I can't think about that as I don't like having something like that in my head..

-knows I now sound mental-

my friend has a picture up on facebook of when he got a brain scan and its so weird to think about what my own brain looks like

same i stay up really late, then sleep late into the afternoon. i feel if im awake more in the day i feel bad for not doing something active where as at night i don't feel guilty about it.

Work, sometimes, not sure what it is, but if my mood catches me wrong, I end up being nervous there

I've spent a huge amount of my life just sitting there thinking about my brain. Weeds great for that. I think it's a really trippy thing to think about especially if you start thinking in reverse and try and almost unthought yourself into the stage where you can try and feel your brain having the thought and understand where it's coming from.

I always reach conclusions too most people never even think about like say ... I AM the brain. The brain is me. It's weird that I should even try to think about it as if it's some thing in my body I'm seperate from. The brain is me. I'm not thinking about it, it's thinking about itself.

We have such massive egos that we've seperated ourselves from our brains and just see it as like this pool of information we can dip in and out of but we are the brain. You didn't post that comment about your brain, your brain did. Your wondering about something that is itself.





I just read that back. Jesus that's so badly worded. It sounds insane. Things like this are hard to put into words.

right now, Stu.

Panel interviews, I am fine one to one but once I am being interviewed/tested by a panel of more than 2 people I get very edgy and nervous.

Lol.. it doesn't sound insane... well it does in a way. But that's why I can't think about brains for too long as I begin to think crazy thoughts, and I am actually completely sane!

I fully believe we have the power to make ourselves insane all on our own.

Eh?

rapists

I think just breaking from the status quo makes me feel that way, like the thought of going to Uni makes me a nervous just because I'm pretty comfortable with living my life the way I am now and with the friends I have now, feels weird I'll have to start all that again although I am looking forward to it at the same time

i always think about **** like that, how the mind controls everything and nothing is technically real

Afraid of the competition, Scott?

[taking thread seriously]

Large inanimate objects. I had/have recurring nightmares about zeppelins and I'm not really sure why. I must have seen footage of the Hindenberg when I was young or something, because I just associate them with explosions and (oddly) nuclear ones in particular. So when I noticed this massive white ball floating over the hill I practically cacked my pants, until I realised it was some massive hot air balloon.

The ocean, too. Even in silly scenarios, like computer games, I'd always switch them off if there was a glitch and Mario just fell into some vast expanse, or the ocean...it's just because it's so dark and home to so many freaky things. Oh and you can drown, that doesn't help.

Big Brother Evictions;

LOL In all seriousness - I get nervous and freak out in any social situation, I get really shy and come across as awkward and I find it hard to make conversation with most people - that's because of me having Aspergers though.

The only people I'm able to talk to properly would be TiBBers actually, then again that isn't real life.

Well there is a reality but it's filtered through the mind and every mind is different. The eye is only responsible for 10% of what you see. The other 90% is the brain. Every species sees the world in a slightly different way. Nobody knows what it actually looks like. For all we know colour is an invention of the brain. It probably is. I imagine the world looks like this odd chemical haze scattered with light from the sun.

And that's just the three dimensions that we can percieve. There's plenty more dimensions. This is all basic physics too, mind you. Not the ramblings of a deluded luncatic.

Well.

I agree 100%. And I think the more intelligent you are, the more capable you are of doing so.

This.

No doubt. Most people who are just simple manic depressives right up to the high end of schizophrenic psychosis tend to be highly imaginative people who think far too much.

It's the right/left brain thing. Right brainers make for good nutters I think. They have it within themselves to think themselves into oblivion whereas left brainers are very logical, ordered sorts who are fairly content with things.

Yeah, I'm the same with the ocean.. It's strange as I've always felt I would like to live somewhere where I can hear the ocean at night, but I find it a very scary thing.. I love swimming but will avoid the sea at all costs!

Stu how do you know which direction your brain is?
Is there a test for it?

I really hate people touching me and also really hate public displays of affection; someone trying to hit on you is trying to achieve both of those things and it disgusts me, but I also get put on edge by people who are trying to do that who are worryingly confident and forward because I'm not like that at all.

Well you could Google 'are you left or right brained' I guess and find some decent tests but as always with tests are certain amount of generalization is to be found. We are not one or the other anyway, just swaying heavily to one side.

I don't know if I'm left or right brained.. I am a very content, very easy going person and I don't think about things too much. However I think I COULD think too much or worry about things, but I seem to be able to shut any serious stuff out and just concentrate on the good, happy stuff..

Hahah.. I have a freind who hates any sort of human contact or affection. Some "wacky" students were going round pubs in Edinburgh one night giving away "free hugs". I actually did think she was going to vomit!

I don't think that matters. They can both worry as much as each other.

This is handy :

this is literally me. i have social anxiety disorder and literally get panic attacks when i have to talk to people. especially people i dont know or i know dont like me. thats why i like tibb. i can kinda socialise without having to.

and i like bb because its like having friends but they cant reject you. im such a freak.

i think way too much. i have several depressive tendencies.

I'd say, going by that ^ that I'm probably more left brained.

I can understand where you are coming from there in the sense that it gives you real people you can get to know 24/7 that you form opinions about. Whenever I watch BB I constantly think about what I would say to someone or how I would act in the house if I was in such and such a situation. It's the one thing Big Brother's a revolution in moreso than any book or film. Just getting to know every little nuance about an ordinary person.

Re : Shyness : I used to be really like that. I think it's something a lot of people grow out of eventually to the point where now I am completely incapable of understanding it. People are by and large lovely. They are just like you and they won't bite if you talk to them. Communication and contact with other people is a great thing.

I think it's booze. Once shy people hit that age where they start drinking it really opens up a door because nobody is shy when they drink. It's impossible.