I am a clinically diagnosed sociopath w/psychopathic tendencies (the closest the medical field will diagnose as a physchopath, since that is not considered a true diagnosis) and lead a VERY normal life now. AMA

Yes. Unrealistic extreme anxiety disorder, which I am medicated for. My anxiety flairs over things like the house burning down. Not an “if the house burns down”, but “WHEN the house burns down”. (This is one of many issues I have had to deal with over just the last few years.

But an instance I remember as a child, I was in second grade and found out that 10’s of thousands of years from now the sun would turn in to a red nova and fry the earth. That one took me down for months.

So not a regular anxiety, but extreme, life debilitating, probably won’t ever happen, have to focus all attention on this stupid thing that will never happen, kind of anxiety.

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