I’m riddled with anxiety and emotionally convinced that something bad is going to happen today. It feels like instinct mixed with dread. Does anyone else get this? How do you move past it?

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Used to get that feeling of impending doom as well. Sometimes it felt like my stomach flipping over, similar to when you feel the first drop of a roller coaster. I talked to a doctor about it and they suspected it was a mild panic attack or maybe only job related anxiety. They offered to write me a prescription for an anti-anxiety medication. I declined. I wasn’t satisfied and I didn’t have time or the money to put into therapy.

So I took the matter into my own hands and tried to fit in yoga and drink less alcohol. It helped, but only a little. Ive worked with some high stress accounts, but *never* had this type of dread haunt me for weeks on end. During this time, I was freelancing at an agency and placed right near to the owners desks. The work I doing was easy and low stress. I try to not paint myself as the woo-woo type, but I eventually came to learn that the agency was struggling to keep clients and the lights on.

I truly believe I was absorbing all the tension and anxiety of the leadership team and stakeholders around me. They say the human body can put out negative electromagnetic waves, that’s where the term “bad vibes” comes from. Funny enough, soon as my contracted ended, the feeling went away completely. It wasn’t until long after I had learned the agency had a series of layoffs and eventually was sold.

maybe you are just sensitive to the emotional climate of the office?

If you want to get nerdy, read The Biology of Belief. I loved it, but can geek out on neuroscience all day.

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ACD1: I worked in an anxiety ridden warfield of an agency for 18 months and it nearly killed me. I feel what everyone is feeling, it fucking sucks.

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@leo 1

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Sending you ❤️, ACD1. Maybe time to reach out to recruiters? Also, any way you can swing the time and $ for a therapist? If you're in NY I can share a name.

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Sorry I meant sending OP ❤️, but shit. The rest of you too!

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You may want to talk to your doctor, it sounds like is an intense feeling, not something that can be put to rest with a walk.

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Are you me?

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Thanks everyone for the replies. Went offline for a few days. Turns out I was about to walk into a very tense and aggressive board meeting where a lot of political shit went down, backstabbing of people etc that had been fuelling up for weeks. On top of all my general stress and low level anxiety it obviously got me feeling the vibes of the room before it has even begun. As I move into management I can only imagine this is going to get worse, so am going to look into developing some skills to handle it. Also ACD1 thanks for that book rec! SVP I’m not in NY but thanks for the help ❤️

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Everything will be okay. I feel this way when I’m super anxious for longer periods of time. Yoga and medication are most helpful to me.

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