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Entries relating to anxiety.
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A rising sense of financial and thermal dread triggered by an unfamiliar mechanical noise in the airing cupboard.
Read full entry →A sudden, sinking realisation that last night's karaoke performance now exists in permanent, shareable form.
Read full entry →A minor but persistent financial guilt trip experienced weekly at the supermarket checkout.
Read full entry →A sudden demand for visual presence sprung on employees who assumed they could get away with pyjamas today.
Read full entry →A frantic scramble through drawers for AA batteries occurring exclusively at the worst possible moment.
Read full entry →A calm, almost defiant refusal to treat a piercing alarm with any real urgency whatsoever.
Read full entry →A frantic, last-minute reshuffling of a journey home using increasingly desperate combinations of buses and walking.
Read full entry →A frantic, multi-app verification ritual performed the moment industrial action is even mentioned on the news.
Read full entry →The collective, low-level neighbourhood panic triggered by a completely ordinary delivery vehicle parked slightly too long.
Read full entry →The compulsive repetition of a phrase back at someone in a context where it makes absolutely no logical sense.
Read full entry →A red-light beep of shame delivered directly to your pride at the front of a full, watching bus.
Read full entry →A sudden collapse of weekend optimism triggered by six ominous words on a company messaging platform.
Read full entry →A cynical, well-earned suspicion that a temporary closure sign is actually the beginning of the end.
Read full entry →A cruel mechanical trap sprung on drivers who assumed contactless technology had reached every corner of the country.
Read full entry →A rising sense of existential doom triggered by a red battery icon and a full day ahead with no plug in sight.
Read full entry →A sudden, total mental collapse regarding beverage preference, occurring only under direct social pressure at the bar.
Read full entry →A relentless, single chirp from a ceiling-mounted device timed exclusively for the deepest part of the night.
Read full entry →A sudden jolt of financial dread triggered by a single camera flash and an outdated Vauxhall Corsa.
Read full entry →The forced participation in workplace jollity, usually involving a Secret Santa and someone's boss doing karaoke.
Read full entry →A frantic, coin-based scavenger hunt through every pocket and glovebox compartment moments before a parking fine.
Read full entry →A media-manufactured, self-fulfilling gloom that convinces an entire nation to feel worse on a completely arbitrary Monday.
Read full entry →A calm, breezy verbal mask deployed over a rapidly escalating internal crisis.
Read full entry →An obsessive tracking behaviour performed with the same intensity as monitoring a hurricane, over a bag of chips.
Read full entry →A sudden jolt of motorway dread requiring an immediate, undignified scramble across three lanes of traffic.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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