Being a runner with Anxiety Disorder really sucks 😞

Well, there's a comforting thought ...

Most everybody has something. Some of its real, most of its not. Some doctors will tell a patient anything they want to hear. Time to toughen up..............

Most everybody has something. Some of its real, most of its not. Some doctors will tell a patient anything they want to hear. Time to toughen up..............

How about just running with slower runners?

Catch my drift? It's more likely to catch the stragglers, no?

Or a running group - safety in numbers.

With that in mind, let's get you back to race readiness and we can just lay that anxiety disorder to rest.

Have you considered having a roster of eastern European cam girls to relieve your stresses?

Roster or gf only. Cougars allowed.

It could be worse: every big stone ahead is a wolf, and every wet tree trunk is a bear--that's schizophrenia. Fortunately the city cross country course painted every stone white, for visibility.

I used to run in a wilderness area that had become infamous due to mountain lion attacks. It came out in the national news, and everything. A runner acquaintance told me that on the day of an attack, he had been running through the trails a few hours before a mountain biker was killed. He told me that the area was very quiet. Too quiet. No birds. No squirrels running around. No deer. He said it was very creepy. He was not surprised when he later learned about the attack in the news.

Ever since then, when things got too quiet on the trail, I turned around and hauled ass back to civilization, while occasionally looking over my shoulder. So if you hear "rustling in the bushes" that's actually a good thing. It's probably a deer, bobcat, or coyote running away from you. You wouldn't even know until it is too late that a mountain lion is stalking you.

Have you tried running with earbuds?

Personally, I've found that these are an absolute game changer, giving me motivation, and I don't have the least bit of hesitancy about anything at all.

I just get fired up in all the right ways.

It gets me past those internal voices and fuses me with something more inspiring.

FWIW, now I run with my new dog and I don't think the earbuds are a good idea with her safety in mind.

Maybe sticking to the treadmill in the gym is more your speed?

you're trying to get him in trouble

playing it safe? I mean, really?

Have a little fun.