Mental Health Hack If you've been having a three day anxiety attack, and you need your partner/colleagues to take it easy on you, tell them you're having a low grade fever.
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It works great! Sympathy and appropriate accomodations/time for rest instead of THIS BIG SECRET THING YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT.
Does anyone here with anxiety actually tell their boss/partner/colleagues about it?
Bonus - my husband said that the things I get anxious about are STUPID. I think I will go shit in his shoes.