if your gf/bf has anxiety u need to be fuckin patient lmao don’t freak out on them because it’ll make it so much worse
Also just a reminder that anxiety doesn’t always present as a rocking-in-the-corner-uncontrollably-crying episode of paranoia or despair, it can also present as:
Agitation or short temper, lack of patience
Insomnia
Upset stomach
Repetitive motions, redoing things you’ve already done, obsessing over specific things
Physical tenseness (back and shoulder pains are VERY common)
Feelings of physical weakness and exhaustion
P l e a s e take the time to understand how your partners experiences anxiety and do some homework on how you can best help them. While we have a responsibility to communicate our needs, it is so massively helpful and comforting when our partners put effort in to understand us and understand how they can effectively assist us in episodes when we might not be able to clearly convey our needs in the moment.
This applies to friends too. These are your people, look after them
Someone tagged Neil Gaiman on my post and now I live in fear. Behind every like there is maybe Neil Gaiman. Every reblog could be Neil Gaiman. Are you Neil Gaiman? No? Well that’s something Neil Gaiman would say.
Waiting for your friend to get into her house after dropping her off like
See also: Watching out the window or waiting by the front door as you watch your friend walk to her car, get in safely, and pull off before going back to what you were doing.
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