Having an anxiety disorder is not fun. Take the following: yesterday, I was watching the local news. During the weather forecast the meteorologist reported that heavy thunderstorms would be coming through the area right about the time I would be leaving for work this morning. I generally do not like driving in heavy rain storms (who does?) and so I immediately became stressed out about it. How did this manifest further? Trouble sleeping. I woke up at 2 A.M. and then tossed and turned until around 4 A.M. My plan was to see how things looked and leave as early as possible for work if the rain had not started before I left.
The skies were very overcast and rain looked imminent. The morning weather was not of much help as it suggested the rain would come a little later. Not wanting to risk anything, I left very early (about 6:15 A.M.) Sure enough, five minutes after pulling into the parking garage, a deluge started, which I watched comfortably from my office window thinking "finally, my anxiety helped me."
