I know threads on this sort of thing has probably come up on here hundreds of times before, but when you go out in public do you feel you are more agitated on some days than you are others?
Today I went to a small shopping centre with my mum, only for a couple of hours - on my favourite bus journey aswell. But I still found I felt extra agitated than I normally do. On a scale of 1 to 10 my agitation level is usually around 7, but today it was around 10. I'm not anxious so much now, just agitated. The movement of other people agitates me, the sound of small children agitates me, the intimidating/critical stare of young girls agitates me, people coughing loud agitates me, loud engines like motorbikes agitates me, and so on.
On the bus today a young mother got on with 3 kids (all under the age of 4), and luckily they weren't loud, but 2 of them couldn't sit still. They kept on running up and down the bus, stamping their feet as they ran, and I just felt like screaming, ''JUST GET YOUR KIDS TO SIT STILL!! !!'' Then when I was eating a meal in a restaurant a baby kept bawling loud, and I found I was wolfing my food down from agitation and irritation because I found it difficult to ignore it, no matter how hard I tried to distract my thoughts on to something else. Then in a clothes shop a woman crept up from behind me and was gawping over my shoulder at the same things I was looking at, and just looking at her irritated me so much I felt like snapping, ''ohh, piss off!''
Do you ever feel like this?
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