anxiety often feels like nothing but doom and worry, but I find humor to be a good way to cope and make light of a scary situation such as panic attacks etc. Does anyone have any funny or even embarrassing stories about their anxiety? my health anxiety has really drained any fun or joy out of me in recent years, but im slowly learning to laugh at some things which makes me feel a bit better. for example, I was recently in one of those tiny regional jet airplanes just before taking off, so we were sitting there for maybe an hour or so which of course made me feel unbelievably claustrophobic so naturally I had the worst panic attack I have ever experienced. I couldnt breathe, vision was spinning, felt like I was going to faint any moment, the whole package. no meds with me or anything so in a panic I begged the flight attendant to get off the plane (not my proudest moment) but she agreed so I awkwardly packed up my belongings and proceeded to the back of the plane to disembark. the entire time the airport crew was trying to figure out how to get the ladder stairs down since there had been a technical difficulty or something, that took a good 15-20 min. the entire time a plane full of people are staring at me, some with worried faces, others just angry. meanwhile im still having the panic attack the entire time and i can feel my face go red. I finally manage to get off the plane and I felt better almost immediately but boy NEVER AGAIN!!! to this day I think about that and get a good giggle but it sure felt like death at the time!
Haha omg that is terrible =( Flying is one of my biggest anxiety triggers. My friend and I both experience anxiety and we have a lot of good laughs at ourselves sometimes. It's never funny when it is happening but it's good to be able to laugh about it later at least haha. One time myself and my friend were out to dinner, and we both were feeling extra anxious that day. She said to me how she was feeling so anxious lately and how even now at dinner, her arm was feeling numb for no reason. I proceeded to tell her, oh don't worry I feel like I've been on a boat since we sat down bc I'm so dizzy haha. We both just started laughing and saying how nuts we are and how sad this is haha. But it helped bc after a few minutes we both didn't feel as anxious anymore.