Wierd Anxiety Triggers

Hey every1

does any1 here get the same sort of effects of social anxiety but with something totally unrelated to going out?

Sometimes when i watch a film or something on the TV it can trigger it. Even things like getting a new car or a new phone have caused me to have anxiety and panic attacks.

Is this common or am I a 1 of a kind? Its embarrasing...i do see a doctor but im afraid to tell him that Im scared of gettin a phone or watching a film cos it could trigger my anxiety

cool..well with me im not actually scared of a phone or the TV...but im in a cycle where i expect to get anxious as i have been in the past. Its like i get worried about having anxiety and as a result that causes anxiety. I am gettin treatment tho...hopefully i too will be able to control it som wot like u have

scatmantom said:

Hey every1

does any1 here get the same sort of effects of social anxiety but with something totally unrelated to going out?

Sometimes when i watch a film or something on the TV it can trigger it. Even things like getting a new car or a new phone have caused me to have anxiety and panic attacks.

Is this common or am I a 1 of a kind? Its embarrasing...i do see a doctor but im afraid to tell him that Im scared of gettin a phone or watching a film cos it could trigger my anxiety

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I can relate to this and yes, I thought I was odd too! I completely freaked out a couple of months ago because I had to get a new mobile phone as mine had broken. I had a friend with me to cope with the shopping experience, it took me 2 hours to decide on the phone because I couldn't get my head around the fact that it wouldn't be the same as the old one, and then, when I'd bought it and walked out of the shop, we both went for a coffee on the way back to her house. I took it back out the box & started playing with it thinking that familiarity would calm me down (that was me trying to be rational! lol). It was a different make so all the buttons and functions were different. I really lost the plot & had a huge panic attack in the middle of the cafe, became hysterical and collapsed. Why? Because I couldn't cope with the change. Basically I knew that a phone is a phone and they all do more or less the same thing but I think it was the change that caused my anxiety to peak.

I hav'n't had the TV or film experience you describe but some programmes embarrass me when I watch them & I have to stop watching even if I'm on my own as my anxiety levels rise. Is that odd? Can't really explain that one myself...

This is a very interesting topic. I never thought of it before, but I think I experience this too. I subscribe to this magazine which I used to read as soon as I got it. I have the last 2 months' issues sitting here, still in the plastic, and I get anxiety when I look at them.

I can only guess, as someone else said already, that something negative probably happened when I was reading or looking at this magazine before.

Angie_05 said:

This is a very interesting topic. I never thought of it before, but I think I experience this too. I subscribe to this magazine which I used to read as soon as I got it. I have the last 2 months' issues sitting here, still in the plastic, and I get anxiety when I look at them.

I can only guess, as someone else said already, that something negative probably happened when I was reading or looking at this magazine before.

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I did that with bank statements once. Never figured out why. Wasn't in debt. Hadn't been spending erratically. Just couldn't open them. In the end I binned them, then got paranoid about identity theft, retrieved them all and ripped them all up. I have never told my therapist cos I worry about why I did it. Perhaps I was attaching something negative to it at the time that I wasn't prepared to see. I think that's the most frustrating thing, not knowing what sets you off.

well its nice knowing im not the only 1 who gets this wierd anxiety.

Its horrible that you people go thru wot I do...but these experiences will make us stronger people.