Arcticboy1970
Bronze Member
Oh Hollow let me see, there are a lot of them.
The things that really get me anxious are;
- can't sit with back to a door. I need to see a room.
- can't use a public urinal, I will wait for 10 or 15 miuntes to use a stall or have even gone to the washroom outside rather than use one.
- can't sleep without doors and windows locked. I check them every night two times.
- can't walk into a room without looking for potential weapons, and escape routes.
- I HAVE to know where my family is all the time, not out of a controlling aspect, I NEED to know they are safe. If they are late and haven't called me I can get more than a little loopy.
Things that generate lesser degrees of anxiety;
- objects out of line with table edges. (I even straighten them unconciously)
- any changes to my schedule - change my schedule watch me spin!
- I need to go and check a place out before I actually go there. For example, I am supposed to meet someone for a meeting for work or even socially, and I have never been there before, I need to go by and see that area before the meeting. To see the "lay of the land" and what safety concerns there may be. If I do this my anxiety upon gonig there is much less, if not I can be pretty anxious.
Just a few, and yes the impact my life. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. My wife is very understanding, my job not so much sometimes, my family in general think I am a "fruit loop". If I am a fruit loop though I want to be orange....mmmm orange.
The things that really get me anxious are;
- can't sit with back to a door. I need to see a room.
- can't use a public urinal, I will wait for 10 or 15 miuntes to use a stall or have even gone to the washroom outside rather than use one.
- can't sleep without doors and windows locked. I check them every night two times.
- can't walk into a room without looking for potential weapons, and escape routes.
- I HAVE to know where my family is all the time, not out of a controlling aspect, I NEED to know they are safe. If they are late and haven't called me I can get more than a little loopy.
Things that generate lesser degrees of anxiety;
- objects out of line with table edges. (I even straighten them unconciously)
- any changes to my schedule - change my schedule watch me spin!
- I need to go and check a place out before I actually go there. For example, I am supposed to meet someone for a meeting for work or even socially, and I have never been there before, I need to go by and see that area before the meeting. To see the "lay of the land" and what safety concerns there may be. If I do this my anxiety upon gonig there is much less, if not I can be pretty anxious.
Just a few, and yes the impact my life. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. My wife is very understanding, my job not so much sometimes, my family in general think I am a "fruit loop". If I am a fruit loop though I want to be orange....mmmm orange.
