I can’t stop worrying about anything for more than a second.
Its half things that don’t matter, the other half are things that matter most to me.
It frustrates me, stresses me out, makes me depressed, makes me anti-social, makes me act differently than who I am.. it makes me not me. Which upsets me pretty bad.
I was counting down the days to goto Portland with friends. My worries pretty much ruined my entire trip… and my constant apologizing for being annoying and/or actually being annoying more than likely got to my friends, which was the biggest worry I had on my mind from the moment we landed: that I shouldn’t be there, that I didn’t belong, that I was a fifth wheel and was a burden to everyone. Lo and behold, my constant worrying about that scenario is what caused the outcome of that happening.
I defeat myself with my worrying. I presumed with worries that those things would happen, and they did. If I had the ability to just not worry about it and go with the flow, not once would I have cared or looked into every single little thing that occurred. But I did. And now I’m laying here, not able to sleep, feeling perhaps the most depressed I have been in a long time, all because I over-worried I’d annoy my friends and lose them forever, and that thought is enough for me to feel completely worthless and defeated. Its enough to have ruined my own vacation, maybe even theirs. Its enough to have kept me crying for an hour, to have made me cry the last four days just because of my own stupid worrying.
I’ve lost friends throughout my life. And it was because of me worrying about pushing them away and being annoying, and me apologizing for being annoying or whatever.. when that never was the case. In my mind, it was. In reality, if we subtracted my non-stop worrying.. chances are it wasn’t like that at all. But it was my worrying that did it in the end.
I don’t want to lose them like everyone else.
The very aspect of it seriously makes me feel on the brink of a panic attack.
Which was why I came to type on here.
This hurts so bad.
And who can I tell? I feel like I can’t mention this to them merely because my worries tell me by even speaking I’ll annoy them. I mean, really, what am I supposed to say anyways? “Hey you know how I annoyed you by apologizing for being annoying when I wasn’t until I started apologizing? Sorry for that.” I mean, all that would accomplish is repetition and bringing it back up would make it worse.
I feel like as soon as I go home I’ll never see them again. Or it will never be the same.
And that, I know is just more worrying. But I honestly can’t help it.
What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I just NOT worry for like ONE second of ONE day? And I understand its good to worry about valid worries.. but obsessing over valid worries to the point I am isn’t good.
Things were so awesome Friday night. We all laughed, had good times, had deep convos, the works. The second we landed, I went into hyper-worry mode. Nothing even triggered it. I just.. couldn’t stop. I hardly talked the whole time out of the fear that if I spoke, it’d be ignored, or scoffed at, or say something stupid, or annoy them. Then finally, FINALLY the last day I stopped worrying for basically the whole day. Then it all resparked just.. for no reason. Of course, I worried all day, but it was about stupid unimportant things. But the bliss of not worrying about severely important things wasn’t long-lasting.
My friends are truly the most important thing to me in my life. When something happens, I turn to them. When I’m off work, I want to hang out with them. I don’t know what I’d do without them, I don’t really have anyone else, they all abandoned and left me or I pushed them away with my worrying.
I gotta stop. I’m making myself cry.
I don’t want to be like this anymore.
Its so hard.
It controls my life.. like, my every action I make is based off of a worry I have.
Its like the worst feeling in the world thinking ‘so-and-so would be better off without me.’ and then believing it based off your own worries.