5 Habits People With Anxiety Can Have

Some parts of your personality are not really parts of your personality; They are attitudes or habits that come from anxiety and mix with your true personality.

This mixture can be dangerous. It can even make you feel strange or rude, making your life even more difficult when people judge you by these actions without knowing what is going on.

Let’s analyze these habits below. Because getting to know them will help us to cope better with our anxiety and our emotions. It will help us to be our best selves and show our true personality.

Habits people with anxiety may have

1. They complain about everything

People with anxiety feel that they are always bothering others, or that they must constantly please people. That’s why they apologize for everything. They say sorry constantly, for everything and for nothing, and it seems like a habit they can not control.

This habit is unhealthy and annoying to people. They feel uncomfortable where they do not know what to say to a person who complains about small things, even things beyond their control.

2. They take everything very personally

This habit is somewhat related to the previous one. When someone says something to them, they go over it repeatedly in their head. They can think about it all day, building it up so much that, no matter how small it may have started out as, ending  it  up with being intrusive and annoying … all this when it was just an innocent comment. No more.

It will be a vicious circle. They are fearful of the comment and to  over think it just makes the fear lasts longer.

3. They may leave or stop calls suddenly

Anxiety often prevails over people and causes them to become accustomed to avoiding or fleeing when they feel threatened or when the situation is overwhelming.

Another consequence of anxiety is that it causes the person to focus on themselves and what is causing their anxiety, and removes them completely from the rest of the stimuli in their surrounding environment, such as a conversation.

It’s not that people do not appreciate the company. It’s just that anxiety wins  over  them, and the best solution they can come up with is to leave the place or think of something else, even if this gives the impression that they are rude people.

4. They fantasize about worst case scenarios

This is a habit that only creates more anxiety. While we have all imagined the worst that could have happened at some point, people with anxiety tend to overestimate the likelihood of worst case scenarios.

Always thinking the worst will lead to physical and psychological problems, chronic fatigue and relationship problems.

They believe that predicting the future protects them and prevents anxiety, but the opposite is true. It generates more fear and insecurity and increases anxiety because they only focus on the negative. They do not enjoy things, and so the bad scenario often ends up as reality.

We can examine situations carefully and evaluate them as much as possible, but we must be aware that we cannot predict the future or know what will happen.  Avoiding situations does not protect us from them, it only limits our enjoyment of life.

5. They spend a lot of time making decisions

People with anxiety tend to analyze situations down to the smallest detail, making it almost impossible for them to make a decision. Although it is a simple decision where there are no good or bad decisions, such as what to wear that day or what to eat.

This “habit” not only affects the person, it can affect colleagues, partner and children.

Making decisions can create anxiety in all of us. We are all afraid to make mistakes, but the habit of over-analyzing things to the smallest detail and being indecisive tends to generate more anxiety than actually making a decision, perhaps making a mistake and then correcting it.

We cannot escape or delegate many of the  decisions we face. Deciding is therefore an everyday thing, and the result of this will be determined by different variables. Some of them we will not be able to control, such as luck, but there will be others that we will be able to control. An example of this is attitudes, and it is on them that we must focus our work.

Bad habits generate and feed anxiety

Sometimes the bad habits of people with anxiety can only make things worse. It is good to be aware of them, and it can also be helpful to talk openly about anxiety when it affects us so that others can help us.

You do not have to work on these habits alone. People  with anxiety, like many other people, believe that no one can help them with their problems. They have trouble asking for help.

But sharing how we feel will actually stop others from creating the wrong assumptions about us. They will understand why you do what you do and they can help.