Anxiety Scale

[imgoin85]

How would you rate your anxiety on a scale from 1-10 (10 being the highest) among the different people that you know? For me it would go something like this:
Family - 1
Friends - 2-4 (depends on how I'm feeling and where we are)
People I Somewhat Know - 6-10 (depends on where we are mostly because at such high levels whatever I'm feeling just turns into fear)
People I Don't Know At All - 8

To get rid of the anxiety, all of these should go down to 1. But which one do you work on? And how do you work on them? Do you keep talking to people that you don't know over and over again until it doesn't bother you anymore? Or do you work on the people that aren't so high so that you have as many 1's as possible for a place to work off of?

 

[chickenmaryjane]

family - 3
friends- 5-9
associates - 10
strangers - 10

 

[Errordotocx]

Family - 1 (Can't say I have any around family)
Friends - 2 to 4 (2 of course if it's just a bunch of friends. Then if we go somewhere unfamiliar then it increases a bit but the presence of them there helps a lot.)
People I kinda know - 5 to 6 (Depends on the environment and depends on if theres friends around or not.)
People I don't know - 7 (Just them being around can make me nervous, but if I can get a conversation going then it would drop a bit from 7.)

 

[worrywort]

Family - 1
Friend - 2-3
People I kinda know - 6-7
People I don't know - 1-2

I'm fine around strangers these days. I guess cause they don't know me and probably never will. The worst are those people you have to see often, but aren't as close as your family...i.e. the ones who you still don't know how they're gonna react when you reveal your true self to them! My solution is that I tend to avoid them as much as pos! I have my family and 1 close friend, and that's enough for me. But I still, inevitably, will have to see people I kinda know eventually, so I just make sure that I never shy away from those occasions.

 

[mndigi]

Family - 1-2
Friends - 5
Strangers - 8
Non-immediate family females - 10

 

[princess_haru]

Family 1
I'm fine around my immediate family.

Friends 2 - 6
Depends on how close a friend they are - sometimes I get nervous trying to impress a friend because I'm always worrying that they'll decide I'm a loser and dump me :/

Strangers 2 - 8
It varies a lot! I'm usually not too anxious if it's people I know I'll never have to see again, but being crowded up in queues or stuck in a crowd of noisy people stresses me out a lot. Staring or laughing strangers really upset me - even if they're laughing at a private joke I immediately become paranoid that it's aimed at me. Knowing that I'm probably being paranoid doesn't make the feeling go away however...

Associates 2 - 10
Again, it varies. People I know a little who are friendly and not too aggressively loud hardly stress me at all, but some people practically give me panic attacks! People I have to work with can be the worst, because they're people you have to see every day whether you like it or not.

 

[Argamemnon]

I only feel comfortable when I'm alone.

 

[Argamemnon]

Do any of you have anxiety around your partner? Personally, having to sleep with someone in the same bed or room would be a nightmare for me. Any weirdos here like me?

 

[Rise Against]

family 1
friends 1
unfamiliar people 7 (im always more nervous around ppl that ive met before than when meeting them for the first time)
strangers 6
girls 7 - 9

 

[bigchris]

family - 2
friends- 1
associates - 3
strangers - 10

Some days though I feel really really talky and can talk to anybody, but they don't come around that often.

 

[freestylemonster]

With meds:
family-1
friends-2
people I kinda know-4
people I don't know-4

without meds:
family-1
friends-2
people I kinda know-7
people I don't know-9

 

[Rheves]

family -- 1-4 (i only see my family every so often)
friends -- 2-7 (I dont really have any close friends anymore, just ppl that dont mind me hagning around)
ppl I kinda know -- 3-7 (depends on the person and place)
ppl I dont know -- 1-3 (not having to introduce and crap)

 

[princess_haru]

Do any of you have anxiety around your partner? Personally, having to sleep with someone in the same bed or room would be a nightmare for me. Any weirdos here like me?

My boyfriend's pretty introverted himself, so I don't really get anxious around him. My ex though... he was massively extroverted and wanted to have people around ALL THE TIME which drove me crazy. We lived in a tiny bedsit and there were people crashing over several nights a week - I'd get up in the morning and there'd be his friends on the sofa, random people he'd met the night before kipping on the floor, more people waiting to use the bathroom... you name it! It was hell ::

 

[tinkerpunk5802]

Family - 1 (i can't say i have any around family)
Friends - 2-4 (depends on how I'm feeling and where we are)
People I Somewhat Know - 6-9 (depends on who they are and where we are)
People I Don't Know At All - 5-8

 

[LittleKitty]

Family - 1
People I Somewhat Know - 3-10, (If they try to get to know me then I'll get a lot of anxiety)
People I Don't Know At All - 4-6 (Depends if I'm alone or not)

The lower anxiety numbers are rare, usually somewhere in the middle.

 

[Phoenixx]

Family: 2 - 4
Friends: 4 - 6 (usually depends on where we are)
Acquaintances/People I kind of know: 6 - 9 (depends on the person)
Strangers: 7 - 10