How To Function When Your Anxiety Won't Switch Off
There's a version of anxiety that doesn't look like panic attacks in public or frozen fear in a crisis. It looks like a person doing their job, making their dinner, replying to messages, having conversations — while somewhere underneath all of that, a low-level alarm is going off that never quite stops. It's the background hum. The constant low static of something might go wrong, something is probably wrong, something I haven't thought of yet is definitely wrong. It follows you into the shower. It sits next to you at dinner. It wakes you up at 3am with a list of things you forgot to worry about during the day. If you've ever described yourself as "just an anxious person" and quietly accepted it as a personality trait rather than something worth addressing — this one's for you. When anxiety becomes your baseline The strange thing about chronic, low-level anxiety is how invisible it becomes over time. Not to you — you feel it constantly — but to everyo...