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Is the oven on? Go check
My personal mixture when snoozing in the wee hours, dancing deftly between imagination and dreams:
"OH SHIT OH FUCK DID I MISS MY ALARM???’
Did you lock the door?
But did you tho?
Ah, the classics
(wait, did I lock the door?)
Yes, but you left the oven on.
If you’re younger, I find worrying about the climate is a good entry into the hobby. It’s a looming threat that affects everyone, definitely a Big Deal, yet it’s a slow burn. Super accessible for novices and experts alike.
Nah, climate worries are competitive ranked anxiety. You can even get a degree in it and a job where you get up in the morning, have climate anxiety for 8 hours and then go home.
There’s the added bonus that it wouldn’t even be too hard to implement measures to alleviate it, we just don’t because some people simply don’t want to. I think it greatly adds to the tension and desperation.
I remember as a child, I just started wondering what is stopping knives from floating up and shanking me.
When I collapse and unable to move, how long will it take before my cat begins to eat my body?
A classic is to wait at the supermarket check out for another person to get back while you hold up the entire line.
“What if I run out of money and have some kind of emergency?” is a pretty common one
Hyper-fixate on establishing certainty in an uncertain universe. Rely on consistency as emotional support. Only feel safe when all possible failure points are 100% guaranteed protected against. Ruminante and endlessly catastrophise even the slightest crack or worry. Focus on things that are impossible to verify but statistically unlikely.
Don’t let anyone convince you that you’re fine and nobody cares. Make it an obsession. Make more knowledge work against you. Really research the topic and learn way too much about it. Learn how impossible it is to ensure and guarantee anything 100%. Really froth yourself up into a full scale panic attack.
This is entry level? I guess I’m one of those manhua characters that gets super powerful by practicing a basic sword swing a billion times or some shit …
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Maybe all my friends secretly hate me and think I’m super annoying.
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Could that weird cramping feeling be the first signs of cancer?
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Did I make sure my door fully latched? What if it blows open in the wind, my cat gets out, and some car runs over them?
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Will ppl like my posts?
Beginner worries aren’t necessarily what’s most common but maybe more what’s lightest. Did I remember to turn off the light before leaving the room? Did I just say “Love you” to my coworker? Does my phone have enough charge for the rest of the day? Inconsequential things.
When you think those enough and can’t even handle them, it’s then that you can graduate to more difficult anxieties like “Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?” or “Will anyone even notice if I’m gone?”
You can go for the classic: What if you are forgetting to do something important?
Some skills require long term practice. ASAP start to develop deep doubts about your adequation to your work. Are you not an absolute impostor? And if so, when and how will the grand revelation of your ineptitude happen?
If you’re new to the world of anxiety, start small:
Lower the expectations from others & yourself when in public (this includes the Internet)
Lower your reliance for & of the support of others
Pick a favorite thing and spend a bunch of time fixating on how it might help
Finally (and this is most important), explore various types of cheese, regardless of tolerance to lactose.
