There and Back Again

Anxiety isn’t fun for anyone. We all know what it’s like to feel our stomach do flips or to panic over things that we feel we have no control over. Some of us soak our clothes with sweat before a job interview or a presentation. Others have trouble gathering their thoughts and forming words, leaving them tongue-tied. More often than not, we notice these physical reactions to our stress. That poor sweaty interviewee usually takes a trip to the bathroom, dabs themselves with some paper towel, and takes a few breaths. The stuttering speaker may slow their speech down to make talking easier. But are we always so in-tune with our mental states? There may be some signs of anxiety that you’ve been ignoring. Here are 6 signs that you might have anxiety, and not even know it.

1. Chronic Headaches

Are you prone to migraines, or long-lasting headaches? Have no fear, there are lots of others like you. If you have throbbing head pain that won’t stop coming back no matter what you do to treat it, you may….

me, shoveling handfuls of macaroni and cheese into my mouth:

Castle In The Sky (1986) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Only Yesterday (1991) Porco Rosso (1992) Pom Poko (1994) Whisper of the Heart (1995) Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) Spirited Away (2001) The Cat Returns (2002) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008) The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

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ok heres something

around a year ago someone asked me to draw danny devito as a kitty, spawning this terrible terrible image 

time passes. a lot of time passes. then two months ago i get an email from a group of people called FPOAFM doing a pottery installation event, and theyre going around gathering artwork from artists to put onto cups and dishes to sell for an event, in exchange for a few pieces with the artists work on them

and i said SURE you can use some of my stuff … . but in exchange.…  i want something with kitty devito on it. i dont care if you put it on anything else, but one item that i get in return has to have this cat man abomination

i give them my address and a few images and months pass. i forget about it. THEN literally two days ago i get this big package on my doorstep, and INSIDE OF IT…. is the holy grail

in addition to two plates is this incredible porcelain cup with the fabled kitty devito on it, proudly grinning his terrible cat grin

the thing that pushes this cup into the Far Reaches of Awful isnt just the image stamped on it. its that it is one hundred percent made from a mold of a styrofoam cup

its finger pressees on the rim, those little lines going around