I wrote this some moments ago, trying to describe what I was feeling. Sometime I get in this state where I’m anxious af but I’m also sort of calm. I don’t really know how to explain it.
I feel like I have to keep myself together. Slow movements, short steps, a bit crooked, I tremble. My muscles are tense. Every problem I can think about is solvable, and yet I have this feeling that there’s something big I’m missing. What if I get something wrong? It’s the end. I feel like I’m falling to pieces. I’m going on by dint of duty: I have to send that email, I have to eat. I finish something and there is always something else, and it always has a deadline. I feel like I have to keep myself together.
You are describing the human condition.
Sure but anxiety could be described as one’s interactions with the human condition. For some, it all feels overwhelming or stress inducing and that’s valid.