u/Friendly_Progress_61

Those who have recovered, how did you do it ? I’m 5 years into health anxiety and I feel like I’ll never get out.

I’m currently nearly a grand in debt and I just lost my job so I have no way of paying it back, which just adds to the stress. I’ve bought test after test and it’s just accumulated so much. Idk what to do anymore

Today I was at the gym and I had lat pulldown first but I see a guy on it, this honestly is fine because I’ll just change the order of exercises, but then I see he’s hopping from like 3 different machines while leaving his towel on the lat pull down. And he did this his whole workout, he’d pick a few machines and occupy all of them at once, I’m sorry but how much of a dick have you got to be to do this. Not only that but he’d still be on one machine yet preemptively place his towel on the next machine he wants to use, so he’s effectively blocking anyone else from using that next machine before he’s even finished with his first one. And this happened for multiple machine I wanted to use, at the start I can swap the order and do something else but when I have 2 exercises left and he’s occupying both machines it’s just so annoying. Are these people just not self aware.

I have super bad cardiophobia, I’m young (22) and active so logically it doesn’t make sense, but it has been completely destroying my life.

I have normal test results, including longer monitoring tests but yet everytime I notice something ‘off’ or different, I somehow always relate it back to my heart. Why do I do this? I’ve had multiple appropriate tests and no family history of early heart problems so why do I still get freaked out?

Sometimes I’ll still get the symptoms I had before and it’ll freak me out or cause a panic attack (though less these days). I’m generally pretty good at controlling panic attacks but it still doesn’t stop the constant anxiety.

I often get this with most things, despite clear medical tests, I still get the anxiety. How can I just get over this, trust the tests and carry on with my life ? After all for most 22 year olds heart problems don’t even cross their mind, why can’t I just be like that?

I do an IT degree and all I ever get told is I’m wasting my time and I should just do something else altogether . I’m 22 for context, and I have about 2 years left before graduation. Should I just drop my degree as a whole and start something else? I just don’t want to be one of those people that end up spending years in a degree only to get stuck after graduating, then ending up in something completely unrelated and that you don’t even need a degree for to start with.

I started my degree last year and I’m having second thoughts. I keep seeing horror stories about grads not being able to find jobs and that entry level IT positions are few and far between. I have a strong interest in cyber and cloud, I was honestly going to look for a helpdesk position to get me started. But I constantly get put down by people and told not to bother, or I need to pivot to something else ASAP. I understand IT is more competitive now than ever, especially roles like SWE due to AI automation and offshoring. I heard a lot of tech companies have been going through budget cuts here in the uk too. Is it really that bad? I just don’t want to chase something that is unrealistic.

The problem is a lot of other industries say the same thing as people in the tech industry, which is ‘don’t bother, find something else’ but surely this can’t be the case for everything otherwise id have to go work as a cleaner or something. Do you think people over exaggerate because it’s Reddit and, let’s be honest, Reddit is fairly negative about most things. Or is it actually just not worth trying to get into and pivoting early while u can?

Idk wether it’s because new season but what the fuck man, I’m just playing stack after stack after stack. Maybe it’s because I’m a high rank and obviously higher ranks are more likely to stack but this shits ridiculous.

It’s like this weird lightbulb color and I’m trying to practice with the small balls and I have to literally stop because I can’t fucking see them

Edit: just noticed the dummies also don’t use cover when the ‘use cover’ option is selected

Context I peaked diamond 5 last season with about 22elo into the rank. I won all of my placements and placed diamond 5 but with 70 elo, I won one more game and am now diamond 4, but how tf did I get more elo after a reset. I’m not mad about it but damn I thought the best id place is maybe emerald 2, and that’s with winning all placements.

As much as I want wardley to win, I think Dubois does it again. Dubois is a better boxer and a lot tougher than people give him credit for. He’s had great experience being in the ring with usyk twice and having wins over hrgovic, miller and aj. Not to mention he’s probably the 2nd hardest hitter in the division only behind wilder, and wardley is probably 3rd spot. I just think wardley defensively gets hit too much and you just can’t do that against a guy like Dubois. Offensively I think wardleys actually very good, he’s awkward and fast and if he lands you never know but Dubois does have a really good chin, despite having been dropped he’s never been knocked out cold and I haven’t really seen him wobbled either. In the first fight I wanted Dubois to win but I just think recently Dubois has shown that he’s just so boring, he has no character at all. Wardley is a lot more entertaining and a bigger personality, it makes the division a lot more exciting. I also just prefer wardleys style, Dubois a very big man and can look very stiff at times, I just prefer the loose style of Wardley.

I’m a young adult in my early 20s, trying to get a career started for myself. I don’t have any real career at the minute, only worked dead end jobs. I have some IT knowledge, so I’m not a complete beginner.

IT career switch popped up as I was looking online and it seems really good, at least from what they promise. Trust pilot gives them a 4.8 star rating, so they get a lot of good reviews, however companies can bot reviews nowadays and a lot of them may not be legit. Here on Reddit, from what I’ve looked at the reviews seem very mixed. Many people saying just to learn the material yourself, you’ll save a lot of money, and on the other side some people saying it’s really worth it.

If you have paid for a course with them before or had any sort of involvement with them, would you please let me know your experience?

I literally never understand this. If I have 2 minutes rest in between my set, what the fucks it matter what I do with those two minutes. What do those guys expect us to do, just stare into space?

I can understand if you’re literally watching a YouTube video for like 10 minutes in between a set or texting someone for that long, but if your only 2-3 or even up to 5 minutes (if you’re doing a heavy compound), then it shouldn’t matter. I don’t know why people get so pressed at this.

Same with talking between sets, I go gym with my buddies sometimes and yeah we’ll have a conversation during our rest especially if there’s 3 of us working in on one machine. No one has explicitly said anything but anytime someone asks how many sets we have, they always say it in such a dickhead tone as if they’re pissed we’re talking between sets. It’s such weird behaviour lol, I’m resting two minutes bro whether I’m talking, on my phone or doing whatever the fuck it’s not going to make a difference to how long I take.

Like I said if you’re having a conversation or on your phone for ages between sets then yes that’s fair to be annoyed, I would be and I have experienced people do this. But yeah man it’s just super strange behaviour, it’s usually always old heads too. Bear in mind I only ever do 2 sets per exercise anyway so I’m never longer than 4 or 5 minutes on a machine, literally probably the quickest person in the gym.

I swear whenever I wake up to an alarm I get so much anxiety from the sound. It’s such a dreadful sound.

Can anyone relate to this or am I just weird? My thoughts behind it is that it creates such an intense external stimulus that I can only focus on that, putting my anxiety in the background.

Does it just count as 0 and no marks go toward your final your grade or do you get removed from the module or something? Please lmk .

[22M] There’s no doubt for me the nighttime is the worst. The feeling of having no control if something was wrong, or not knowing until the last second because I’m asleep I think is what scares me.

Unlike a lot of people here, My heart rates never fast or anything, actually the opposite it’s pretty slow. That scares me a lot, when I sleep it goes down to like 39-45 on average. It’s been that way for 4 years at least, since I started tracking my sleep anyway. I’ve had 2 ECGs since then and both came back with no evidence that anything was wrong, I have a 3rd ecg this Wednesday and a holter monitor on top of that on Thursday.

During the day I can somewhat handle it and even do things like workout, this is a big one for me. I’ve actually been training for around 4 years but recently I stopped for 2 weeks because I kept getting ectopic beats during my workouts, which is just an horrendous feeling. I didn’t get too many but maybe I’d notice one or two throughout the workout, I never had this before this was a very recent thing. Doctor said it could be caused by the fact I recently became extra anxious of working out. I’ve since worked out and not noticed them again but I’m still unsure.

So yeah , how do you deal with sleeping ? Recently I just can’t, I always wait till I just shutdown and crash without noticing

I was just thinking because my rep is randomly shit. There must be times sad little dickheads people report my account just because I had a bad game or whatever.