February 7, 2022, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that includes anxiety. Who has anxiety or what is the source? Is there conflict? How can you use anxiety to further a story? Go where the prompt leads!Submit by February 12, 2022. If you want to be published in the weekly collection, please use the form. The Collection publishes on the Wednesday following the next Challenge. Rules & Guidelines.
Submit by February 12, 2022. If you want to be published in the weekly collection, please use the form. The Collection publishes on the Wednesday following the next Challenge. Rules & Guidelines.
Agoraphobia

I told million times I won’t come, it wasn’t a lie
Mingle with scary crowd? I’d rather die
As I stood inside the crowded park
Jesus statue beside was the landmark
Dark cross shaped mole was my birth mark
I jumped for the noise of black dog bark
I want to escape this before I faint
Forgive my friends? I am no saint
Million times, I said I have anxiety
Don’t look at me like it’s an abnormality
We all have issues, and I have this anxiety
It’s not a disorder
Now listen to my order
I’m going home.
Thanks for reading.
Dealing with social anxiety is not easy, I am also having this issue, If you also have, you are not alone. I’m here🏋️. Stay with right people who will support you.
A nice ode to anxiety and the struggle to speak up and feel accepted. Well done. Thanks for your submission to the Anxiety Collection!
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Thank you Charli, now I feel it’s an Ode kind 😍 I wrote it without thinking of how the pattern goes. ☺️ Looking forward to see others submissions.
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Nice poem! And I can relate. There are times when I just don’t want to be out in a crowd, and I mean before Covid.
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That’s me too. I hate crowds, also before Covid. Not sure why, but I simply don’t take crowds ☺️. And I feel it’s perfectly normal ☺️. Thank you for reading 🥰🥰
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While no expert, following these can help perhaps:
1)Be focused on your own things. Do not start thinking “What would others think?”
2)Do not get into “see my WhatsApp status”, “why should I see someone’s WhatsApp status”
3)If someone says you are like X or Y and you initially do not like it, after some time say “I was destined to be like this, what can I do? ” and kind of walk away or shift to another topic.
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Thanks Piyush. This is one good thing to be followed by kids these days. Social anxiety I mentioned here is about the crowd, there will be an unknown fear or short of breath that occurs when in crowd, sometime you even feel like to faint. This is something parents should work on kids, they should let them out on crowds and public to go away these anxiety issues.
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I loved the frenetic activity in this poem. It was anxiety put to rhyme. Wonderful
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Thank you 🥰 For your warm comments, grateful for your words 💖🙏
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You’re welcome and thanks for writing! Anxiety/panic gets more exposure now that it ever did but I still don’t think people who deal with it understand. A room/place full of people is a joy for them and a “scary crowd” for others.
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Thanks for all of it🤗🤗 HUGS to you 🥰 Everyone should know and be supportive of it 🤗 Have a Good Day 🥳
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Beautiful take on the issue 💖
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What a surprise 🥰🥰🥰Thank you😍
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You’re writing in rhymes 😉 Well done Simon 😉
Anxiety is something that need to be treated very seriously!
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Yes, I don’t see a tablet can do to 😅 but more humans and good hearts can do ☺️Thank you Ribana 😅
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