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disorderly- asylum door #5
By anathema
anxiety neurosis
(noun)
: a psychoneurotic disorder characterized by anxiety unattached to any
obvious source and often accompanied by physiological manifestations of
fear.
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anxious?
(why are they asking?)
no
not
-part-
-ic-
-ur-
-lar-
-ly-
just little
maybe
(so very anxious)
thumb
s
twiddling?
i
didn't really
notice
i can stop if you'd like.
(i can't stop. what will happen if i stop??)
kinda
jump
y
is it hot
in here
or is that just me?
panic?
this isn't panic
::take deep breaths::
(don't let them know you're anxious)
breathe
breathe
damn it i'm breathing!!
they keep telling me
to stay
calm
and to breathe
they think i'm anxious
(how'd they get into my head? what else
do they know?)
i'm twiddling my thumbs?
....oh....
what makes you think i'm anxious?
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Copyright 2003 *anathema*
Published on Tuesday, July 8, 2003.
Filed under:
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Comments on "disorderly- asylum door #5"
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On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, flying_fox
(573)
wrote:
the emotions are crystal clear...your poetry is more descriptive and gives more insight than any dictionary definition. Fox
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On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, SilentStalker
(1066) wrote:
You're so good it's scary. I'm in awe
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On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, SalemLex
(25) wrote:
I gotta say you got this down perfectly, I couldnt have written it better myself. truely great
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A former member wrote:
I've had anxiety attacks and I remember the hiccup-y feeling I got when I tried to breath and the way you split the words made it even more believable.
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On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, Jonas
(720) wrote:
it's hard for me to continue to come up with original comments for each piece... i believe i will stop commenting here and just say (again) that you've charactarized in quite a livable way each of these disorders... stunning both literarily and visually
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On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, Six-Out
(1435) wrote:
This is so.....real. So, you. *sigh* Great.
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A former member wrote:
Ooooh yes. Are we one and the same? Seriously, another one I can relate to... we should chat sometime, we seem to have a lot of the same problems. :-)
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On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, SnowQueen
(59) wrote:
I actually suffer from that too. Gets really hard to breath whenever I feel I'm being watched or around people.. stressed n whatnot. Good write. I know what you mean about nobody being able to tell.
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On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, anathema
(50) wrote:
obviously... this is a piece on anxiety disorder... something i struggle with quite a bit, though no one would ever guess to watch me in public...
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