Anxiety Feels Like a Weight

Anxiety feels like a weight. It has been described as the feeling of tripping—the “moment where you don’t know whether you are going to catch yourself is how you feel all day long.” Or “when you tap your pocket to get your wallet, and it is not there. You feel that every moment of every day.”

Or… like when you see cop lights in your rearview and you know you did something worthy to get a ticket. Coming down from an attack is like the cop flying past you, heart still racing, kinda shaky, sweaty, and it’s all in the back of your head the rest of the day. You think how great it was that…