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Lifer
Oct 10, 2013
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I dunno Dan, I suspect halcyon days like that exist only in memory. If you’re prone to anxiety now odds are pretty good that you were prone to anxiety then.
Dr. Jon, you are possibly correct, except that I recently found a photo of me from that very day, confirming my memory back in 1965. I’m smiling a wonderful smile.
 

David D. Davidson

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jul 19, 2023
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775
Canada
My sense of invincibility. Health anxiety is a real bitch. It’s exhausting thinking every skipped heartbeat is the end of me! I was prone to anxiety since birth, it runs in my family as far back as our history goes, but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t much milder in my teens and 20s.

My youngest brother had a benign tumor pressing on an adrenal gland in his 20s that was causing a constant drip feed of adrenaline for many years, caused him extreme stress and an easy startle. After the gland was removed alongside the tumor, he’s been like a zen monk - not even a hint of stress or anxiety. I sometimes wonder if I could get the damn thing removed by some back alley surgeon somewhere 😂