Things that make you irrationally anxious/nervous/stressed

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Figured I could take a stab at one of these semi regular threads where people share.

What are some probably irrational things that stress you out?

I think my biggest irrational anxiety is entering a new building, one I haven't been in before. Doesnt matter what it is, best friends new house, civic building, restaurant. I usually cant talk as I walk in, I am super alert, on edge, and have a irregular heart beat. But it's gone almost as soon as I enter. I could literally walk in, spend two seconds inside, walk out, and then right back in and feel no anxiety.

I dont think anything bad has happened to me in a new building. So I dont know where it comes from. I do tend to prefer to go to a place I have been before. My fear never keeps me from going somewhere, even to me that is silly, but as I approach the door I go into fight or flight mood.

This is really ironic as I am trying to get my architecture license. But going into a building I have worked on for a first time doesnt bother me. I am more stressed about going to the building where the test is at than I am about the test.

It's not a fear of getting lost. Its fear of the new, and i only have it for buildings.

What does everyone else have?
 
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My wife and kids being somewhere in a big crowd and me not there. There's so many bad stories involving kids, I'm a wreck if I'm not there. I know anything could still happen, but I know me vs my wife and her health if something bad did happen. It just stresses me out sometimes.
 
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Just my wife. That is all. LOL.

Actually, any time I am called to the big man's office, or told they need to see you. Spent 27 years in textiles and manufacturing. Been through 3 closings and 4 or 5 layoffs. That one little comment almost gives me a panic attack.
 
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When someone calls/texts who I never hear from or haven't heard from in a long time. I know I'm terrible at keeping in touch but when this happens my mind automatically jumps to what do they want, must be bad news, a tragedy?
The worst thing for me was when my husband was deployed and I hadn't heard from him for a while. The bad what-ifs consumed me.
 
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LouderVol said:
Figured I could take a stab at one of these semi regular threads where people share.

What are some probably irrational things that stress you out?

I think my biggest irrational anxiety is entering a new building, one I haven't been in before. Doesnt matter what it is, best friends new house, civic building, restaurant. I usually cant talk as I walk in, I am super alert, on edge, and have a irregular heart beat. But it's gone almost as soon as I enter. I could literally walk in, spend two seconds inside, walk out, and then right back in and feel no anxiety.

I dont think anything bad has happened to me in a new building. So I dont know where it comes from. I do tend to prefer to go to a place I have been before. My fear never keeps me from going somewhere, even to me that is silly, but as I approach the door I go into fight or flight mood.

This is really ironic as I am trying to get my architecture license. But going into a building I have worked on for a first time doesnt bother me. I am more stressed about going to the building where the test is at than I am about the test.

It's not a fear of getting lost. Its fear of the new, and i only have it for buildings.

What does everyone else have?
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Teeing off on #1
 
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I get way too stressed at work. I've done the same thing for 20+ years, with a short few year break to try a different career path. I know how to do my job and I get no complaints (few anyway). It still stresses the hell out of me. Everything always gets done, and if it didn't nobody would die. I know there is no reason to worry at work, but I still do.
 
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Non-flowing Traffic with my family in the car. The kind you run into on the interstate. I panic like that pheasant in the Bambi movie. I look for exits and turnoffs. Anything that will keep us moving forward to the destination.

I am super chill with most other areas in my life but that is the one situation I turn into a complete psycho.
 
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OldandStillaVol said:
Yup. Thats my fear. Seems only to be for tall bridges though, I can drive forever on long straight bridges but the minute I see one that goes way up and down in the distance, my heart rate goes up.
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My wife's the same way. Some of the big freeway interchanges in SoCal have tall, curving, banked bridges that just terrify her. The Coronado Bridge in San Diego drives her nuts:

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going under a bridge when i'm driving my boat down the lake. I have this fear that it's going to collapse or something. I normally speed up a little.
 
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