is this do do a lot of people have anxiety over the Apocalypse would you sayhttps://twitter.com/JustinMcElroy/status/1241552248100065280 …
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Replying to @nuanceexists @eigenrobot
i used to have like, suuuper severe anxiety about anything apocalypse related
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Replying to @eigenrobot
SO I had a nervous breakdown as a teenager, and one of the things that would happen is I would get really intense intrusive thoughts, often about large scale destruction. i had compulsions that had to do with preventing buildings from falling down, etc
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Replying to @nuanceexists @eigenrobot
when I was 16 I started saying "I love you" to everyone all the time, because I wanted that to be the last thing said between us in case they were killed by nuclear warfare I'm not entirely sure why that was such a big focus of my anxiety- maybe externalizing my emotional state?
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Replying to @nuanceexists @eigenrobot
anyway I ended up in this cycle of: whenever i got anxious, i would have apocalyptic thoughts, and i started to associate the apocalypse with anxiety never got so bad that if I read the word apocalypse I would panic, but if I thought too hard about it i totally would
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Replying to @nuanceexists @eigenrobot
lotta therapy helped and now I'm okay although I really don't like thinking about the end of the world
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but i get at least one funny story out of it: there was one time where I was anxious that my parents, who were in albuquerque, would be nuked, and i was starting to get really anxious and then i thought "wait, albuquerque's not even a target" and then i was fine! lmao
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I grew up next to a bunch of ICBM fields #2 target in North American
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