Have you experienced things and cannot identify them because they are unfamiliar or wrongly given a name to your emotions? If you have, I am here to tell you that you are not alone. There are many people like you wrongly diagnosing their emotions or wondering what is wrong with them.
And the problem with not knowing what’s wrong is that you cannot find a solution if you cannot identify the problem. That’s why many people are struggling with anxiety that think it is something else or thinks it is normal because they have lived with it all their lives.
Well, it isn’t. And in this post, I will be sharing some anxiety is real quotes with you to help you identify and see that anxiety is real. Not to scare you or put you in despair, but so you can recognize it and embrace the solution.
So, without further ado, find below some anxiety is real quotes to help you put things in the right perspective.
Anxiety Is Real Quotes
A lot of people might not know this but anxiety is real. It is that feeling of despair you feel when you think of your life, that heartbreaking emotion you feel when you think of your past or that crippling fear about how your life will turn out.
1. The voice that trails after you in your head; loud sometimes, silent sometimes, but no doubt there, niggling away at your sanity, that is anxiety. Anxiety is real.
2. Anxiety is real. Anxiety makes you hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
3. When you feel that there is only one voice you can hear, the loudest in the room and persistent, know that it is anxiety talking.
4. Anxiety is real and it kills off greatness in us while we live.
5. Anxiety is like an obsessed ex; always clinging on even when you are ready to move forward.
6. Anxiety is like a bad friend; it knows your dirty secrets and insecurities and preys on them, using them against you.
7. Anxiety takes you on a journey looking for sorrow even where there is none
8. Anxiety doesn’t deny the fact that there is a light at the end of the tunnel; it just makes you believe that the tunnel is an endless one and it will take ages to see the light; probably never.
9. Anxiety is a vain attempt to answer questions asked by years bygone.
10. To anxiety, no explanation is reasonable.
11. Anxiety makes you not just want to stay away from others but keep others away from you also.
12. Anxiety makes you feel like you are floating; it’s not the best feeling but you get to not confront your fears for a while or maybe, never.
13. Anxiety makes you feel alone, even amid a crowd.
14. Anxiety makes you feel like you are two personalities in one, it makes you feel disconnected and detached from the world.
15. Anxiety makes you into a spectator; watch the world go by because you’re too afraid to jump on the bus.
16. Anxiety makes you spend most of your life afraid; hoping that people don’t get close enough. If they do, hope that they don’t leave and when they don’t, think that it is a matter of time.
17. Anxiety is losing sleep over what happened many years ago and replaying it and all the possible ways it could have played out otherwise.
18. Anxiety is that feeling of being overwhelmed; even the simplest tasks can feel suffocating and you just want to bawl your eyes out and give up.
19. Anxiety is like an alarm clock; when you think you are having the best day, it goes off, blaring into your head and reminding you of its existence and suddenly, your best seems to be insufficient.
20. Anxiety is an advance payment on a problem that may never become a reality.
21. Anxiety makes you be on the edge; see everyone around you as a potential hater and suspicious of good intentions and actions.
22. Anxiety is like a heart attack; you go from being fine to feeling your worst and your chest constricting painfully, gasping for breath and thinking, “I might die.”
23. Anxiety is choosing to be heavy, seeing it as the easiest one.
24. Anxiety is not something that goes away, it is like the ocean, you learn to live with it sometimes and master it most times.
25. Anxiety doesn’t need a logical reason to make an appearance; you can simply become anxious just from the thought of being anxious.
26. Anxiety takes away all the fighting chance that life gives you.
27. Anxiety is like a chameleon; on the outside, you look calm and everyone can’t seem to understand why you need your space while on the inside, there is a violent storm raging.
28. Anxiety is attacking your problems instead of facing and confronting them.
29. Anxiety is a thin trickle of fear into the mind, if left unchecked, it can cut into other thoughts and swallow them up.
30. Anxiety doesn’t allow anything new to emerge in the space of your mind.
31. Anxiety makes you overthink things; feel everyone is against you, think everyone is going to leave and you’ll be alone in the dark web of your mind. The feeling of abandonment comes in and you have no expectations from the people in your life.
32. Anxiety leaves you with a shallow and hollow feeling.
33. Anxiety is like a choke-hold; you know it’s nothing to stress about but it makes a mountain out of molehills, it convinces you that the small things are big and it allows your imagination to run wild, painting it as your reality.
34. Anxiety is simply being scared by an unknown factor.
35. Anxiety ensures that even when things are working out just fine and great, you are always waiting for the other shoe to drop; you are always left with a sense of foreboding and might be tempted to walk away because it looks too good to be true.
36. Anxiety is the arch-enemy of understanding and acceptance.
37. Anxiety makes you stop living; you just want to get through the day and dread what the next one will come with, you switch to survival mode and you find yourself waiting for what you don’t exactly know.
38. Worrying permits you to be anxious.
39. Anxiety makes you feel like everything bad that happens is your fault and every good thing that happened has nothing to do with you.
40. Anxiety is a silent killer; it gives a façade on the outside that everything is fine while it goes to work earnestly on the inside.
41. Anxiety makes no sense but yet, it makes the person suffer for as long as it takes, leaving such drained and with no strength to go on living.
42. Anxiety sucks the life out of life, makes living meaningless and constrains the days to nothing but numbers to be ticked off the calendar.
43. Anxiety feeds on dreams and takes pleasure in snuffing out the gleam of hope that manages to get through once in a while.
44. Anxiety deprives you of the joy that comes with the simplest of tasks and makes you feel like you don’t have much time left and need to compound a lot of things in a little space of time, leaving you feeling confused and ever-tired.
45. Anxiety takes away the pleasure of the present and the endless possibilities of the future while waving the past in your face like a bad report sheet.
46. The beauty of life is that you understand that half of your fears are not valid while the other half can be discredited but anxiety will get you worrying anyways.
47. Anxiety makes you feel that you are not doing enough, even when you over-prepare, you still feel you are not well prepared.
48. Anxiety doesn’t have an ON and OFF switch; telling someone with anxiety to calm down is like telling someone who is suffering a stroke to stop drooping.
49. The most frustrating thing about anxiety is knowing there is no reason to freak out but still going on to freak out and being able to do absolutely nothing to stop it.
50. Anxiety is like a rocking chair; it keeps you moving but gets you nowhere.
51. Anxiety makes you be on a mental track, ever running away from the things in your head but never being able to outrun them.
52. Worrying is like walking around with an umbrella, waiting for it to rain.
53. Anxiety, in the plot of life, ensures that there are many stops and starts with no valid reasons and never fitting into what used to be or what is present.
54. Anxiety deprives you of the freedom that hopes freely doles out.
55. Anxiety magnifies tomorrow’s sorrow and sucks out the strength of today, leaving you defenceless against the evil of the trio; past, present and the future.
56. Fear is inevitable but it doesn’t have to be the master and controller every time it comes around.
57. Anxiety makes a prison out of your mind and a buffet out of your fear.
58. Anxiety never stops babbling, tells you everything that can go wrong and wakes you up in the middle of the night for no just cause.
59. Anxiety makes you into a time machine; travelling into the future in your mind, over and over again, punishing yourself with “What Ifs”.
60. Anxiety collects worst-case scenarios and plays them over and over again until it tricks the mind into believing that it is real.
61. Anxiety is menacing, it compounds daily and slowly blocks out the sunlight of hope and positivity.
62. Anxiety numbs you to the obvious care, concern, love and warmth of your loved ones.
63. Anxiety can never be fully explained; how do you explain what you have not been able to wrap your mind around and make sense of?
64. Anxiety makes you the worst company of yourself and keeps you from seeking others.
65. Anxiety makes you second-guess yourself, it is big on the imposter syndrome and makes you deaf to the applause of others.
66. Anxiety gives you the exact opposite of what you wish for; you wish to be productive but have no strength for it, you wish to have friends but hate to socialize, you wish to have your space but don’t want to be lonely. It is going from desiring to being numb.
67. Anxiety feeds on the wounds that are not physical but are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
68. Anxiety will make you say “I’m fine” when all you want to do is scream, shout at the top of your lungs and yell words that haven’t taken form yet.
69. Anxiety will make you feel that you are falling apart; that’s not so bad compared to it giving you that feeling, over and over again.
70. Anxiety puts your body and mind in a constant battle. Your mind just wants to close shop while your body fights to survive with the dawn of each day.
71. Anxiety makes the troubles of life pale in contrast to the storm brewing, over and over again, in your mind.
72. Anxiety makes you repeatedly experience failure in advance; it is a total waste of time.
73. Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It kills relationships before they have time to bud and grow.
74. Anxiety makes a war out of every thought and a battle out of every breath; the chance of winning is slim.
75. Anxiety makes you realize that breathing can be hard and tenuous.
76. Anxiety makes you shed a million tears and say a million words for a past that cannot be unwritten or undone.
77. Anxiety numbs you to the pain of the past, the joy of the present and the hope of tomorrow.
78. To an average person, life going on signifies hope. To an anxious person, life going on is just the saddest thing.
79. Anxiety is the price we pay for keeping our fears like a blanket around us.
80. An anxious life is characterized by difficulty and depression on every page turned and every chapter written.
81. Anxiety is a chronic liar, tells you that you will always feel shitty which isn’t true unless you subscribe to the thought and entertain it every day.
82. Anxiety entertains every storm that comes calling; pulls up a chair for it by the fireplace, makes it feel all warm, cosy and at home.
83. Anxiety is being blind and constantly being told how beautiful the world is.
84. Anxiety will always make you a character in your own story, never free to be just YOU.
85. Worry feels good and bad at the same time; it provides an escape but the monster only gets bigger.
86. Anxiety is simply never getting a break from your thoughts.
87. Anxiety makes you go hard; either on yourself or those around you but mostly on yourself.
88. Anxiety blocks creativity, you are caught in the constant web of worry and fear.
89. Anxiety will always make you fear discovery; to know what is on the other side of worry.
90. Anxiety will make you check over your shoulder every day, expecting something bad to just happen.
91. Under the cloak of anxiety, lies resilience.
92. Anxiety is like seeing the world in grey instead of all the vibrant, beautiful colours that make up the world.
93. When you’re not able to envisage, imagine or welcome the thought of hope and cheerfulness, then anxiety has gotten the better of you.
94. Anxiety is the lighted candle by which a man seeks for leaks in life’s gas pipes.
95. an anxious man takes the world too seriously and holds himself accountable too often.
96. Anxiety is allowing what you cannot do to interfere with what you are capable of doing.
97. Anxiety is choosing not to see the beauty in obstacles; a learning curve and a stepping stone.
98. For some, anxiety is simply the art of giving up before the fight begins.
99. Anxiety is convincing yourself that you are lost in the woods of your thoughts and can’t make your way back home when only, you’ve just wandered off and the road to hope awaits you.
100. For others, anxiety is a warm glass of regret, guilt and self-loathing, a blanket to snuggle under and forget that life is for the living.
Hopefully, when you read these anxiety is real quotes, it will give you succour that you are not alone and also that you can overcome them. You can share this post with your friends and loved ones too. Thank you.
