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You can start with climate change and work your way to all the other shit stemming from it
Someone is watching you.
From the US? The Yellowstone super caldera is over due for a massive eruption. From the west coast? “The big one” is also well over due. Enjoy.
Replay cringe conversations and social blunders in your head from years ago.
Constantly wonder if you put your underwear on backwards this morning.
Question whether you are having a heart attack, or cancer, or serious organ failure, or parkinsons, or MS, or a fatal case of covid, or ebola, or a stroke, or going blind … all the time.
Know that AI will replace you sometime this year and you are too old to get another job of any sort.
That aircraft you hear overhead is not some passenger jet, but bombers about to try shock and awe.
That rumbling isn’t a truck driving by, but a hidden fault line about to unleash the mother of all earthquakes.
Ghosts are real.
If you are a straight male: Am I growing breasts?
If you are female: Am I somehow pregnant?
If you have pets: are they just sleeping or dead?
Are the walls here thick enough to stop bullets?
If you in the US: Will ICE round me up?
Do you think you are good enough to be anxious?
A good starter worry is that you left the stove on.
Is the oven on? Go check
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.
It’s very flexible because this anxiety will be effective when level 1 and when it will be level 10 it can be super effective and also time consuming which makes even more anxiety
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.
Easy, “why would knives even want to shank me though, I’m nothing…”
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.
Wait did i bring all i needed for today?
My personal mixture when snoozing in the wee hours, dancing deftly between imagination and dreams:
"OH SHIT OH FUCK DID I MISS MY ALARM???’
“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 …
Training my Cheat Anxiety Skill to Lv 999 Every Day so the Villainess Cannot Mind Control Me
A classic is to wait at the supermarket check out for another person to get back while you hold up the entire line.
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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?
What was that sting pain on my chest?? Is it a early sign of an heart attack???
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