That Feeling of IMPENDING DOOM.....

[visualkei]

Alright, I just wanted to talk about that feeling of impending doom. You know the feeling where you know it's coming, and it gives you anxiety, sleeplessness, butterflies (the bad kind) before something happens.
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Tell me what gives you that feeling of impending doom. And what are your best ways for dealing with it?[/B]

For me, what does it is Sunday, or the day before school starts when I know I'm not prepared to go in and teach quality lessons. And the dread of having an administrator bust in when I may be doing nonsense in the classroom.

The email or phone call from a parent who is instigative. Yucky.

Then the feeling of having to attend to a social situation where you know you don't want to go to, or be around certain people, but is obligated to.

My way of dealing with it? Just do it, and get it over with.

[Dagger]

Mm, the Sunday blues. I got those every week in high school, and it pissed me off to no end, since I never thought I had anything honestly worth worrying about. I guess I just did whatever I could to distract myself.

So I haven't experienced that unavoidable feeling of doom in the same way for a couple of years... I mean, it comes back to hang over my head whenever I have some big responsibility to take care of, but never so regularly and irrationally as it did in high school. Like you said, the best way to get rid of it is to just bite the bullet and do whatever you have to, instead of delaying and drawing things out.

~Dagger~

[Ravenstorture]

[color=darkgreen][font=garamond]For me also it has been a while. But I used to get home from work earlier than my boyfriend did a couple of years ago, while the relationship was in the process of ending. I used to feel sick with fear of him coming home, just the tension and the anger and the dark mood, and I used to sit on the fire escape watching for him to come up the hill. When I saw him, I would hide behind the doorway for sometimes hours at a time, silent, while he went about the house as if I weren't there - when he knew I was, I was always in the same place. There were many months that passed where there was no civility in the household.

One of my friends moved in with us to try and resurrect the situation - it's all fixed now, and we're very good friends again (I'm with someone else) but those thirteen months were some of the darkest of my life. It's amazing how wrong things can go sometimes!


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[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Mmmm.... well, I had a feeling kind of like that today when it occured to me that my changces of pulling up my grades before the soon-to-come report card would be impossible, and ther's a fairly good chance I'm going to fail all my classes. However, each passing grading period I seem to care less and less. The biggest reason for this doomyness is just that I always seem to have this urgency about things. I often overburn myself because I feel like everything needs to get done immediately and there's too many things I've set out to do. This is why I can't wait to be through with school and never have to worry about it again.[/COLOR]

[Rachmaninoff]

I get that feeling right before a major performance that is central to my grade... like my Master's performances that I had to do. That overwhelming feeling was intense, even though I prepared like crazy for it! Fortunately it helped that I did well. XP

I still get it a bit before major tests or when I know I'm going to be beyond busy for a few days. Usually I just do my best to get through it since most of the time it's not that bad. That and it always feels good to be done and get a good grade.

[Minako]

I get that feeling right before my final exams here in college. :animedepr They're so important for your grades so if you fail (like I did last semester...oops) it could mean failing the class! Luckily, I didn't fail the class in which I had the bombed final, thank goodness for curves!

[Treble]

I get that terrible feeling whenever I have to get ready for a class presentation. I?ve never been able to speak comfortably in front a class. I stutter whenever I speak, and my body trembles all over the place. It?s horrible. And picturing everybody naked only makes it worse for me.

[SunfallE]

[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][FONT="Lucida Sans Unicode"]I tend to get it for tests or important events coming up since I worry that I'm going to mess things up somehow. But usually I just prepare as best I can and it usually works itself out. Now what really gets me the most for feeling impending doom... well it's usually when I know someone is doing something utterly foolish and stupid, something that will have extremely negative fallout once things get out of hand.

I hate the feeling of sitting to the side and not being able to do a damn thing to stop it, or rather getting ignored since usually the person in question knows that what they are doing is stupid, foolish and beyond idiotic. I hate waiting only to later find out that things did go wrong and that they've screwed themselves and others over in the process.

It's only happened a few times to some of my closest friends, but I've still hated it each and every time since you can't force others to realize that they are being phenomenally stupid. Anyway... I get over it for the simple reason that once someone avoids me or their other friends since they don't want to hear that they're being a fool... it usually results in the friendship being over as well. Since they usually crash and burn and then turn around and make new friends instead of coming back and owning up to being a total idiot. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[Vicky]

[SIZE=1]I tend to get the feeling all the time. Hmm. Especially when I'm around people, or when something really stupid happens that upsets me (like when people fall out, I have this 'doom' feeling like the world has ended and I'll stay like that for days - and I probably don't even know the person that well). Or when I'm alone, and it's normally an over powering feeling of impending doom so I just lay there and don't [i]do[/i] anything because I really don't want to make myself feel worse.

I get it when I go out to meet my best friend for no apparent reason. I have it at the bus stop sometimes and quite often in lifts - so I don't use lifts. There's probably loads of instants in every part of the day I feel nervous, which sadly isn't as bad as it gets. I get around people and often when I'm on my own, so I guess you can see my problem here.

I haven't quite figured a way to get over this yet. Well, nothing I want to mention here, my own remedies include keeping quiet and thinking, playing drums maybe, or hitting things. Hmm.

To be honest I think they have a completely different name for it...[/SIZE]