Anxiety Rough draft

Word Count: 673

Scene 1:

 Sound effects: (Indistinct whispers and voices all around)  

Picture: Blurry screen of people walking around and talking.

Dialogue: Voices. There are voices everywhere. Our daily lives are filled with voices. Voices that comfort us, voices that hurt us, and voices that distract us from our everyday lives. The source of these voices come from beings that people with social anxiety fear the most. People. Unfortunately, this is something that I struggle with through my everyday life. This social anxiety that I have is a result of having an anxiety disorder. Many people will say that everyone deals with anxiety throughout their everyday lives, but this… this is something much worse. Let me explain…

Scene 2:

Sound effects: (Some type of music that fits with the tone of my explanation)

Pictures: Exam, Deadline, someone freaking out, Picture of the sun and moon and a clock signifying “all the time”, frustration face, a fleeting object, emotions trapped in a cell, Calendar signifying weeks and months

Dialogue: Usually when people feel anxious it’s because an important event is coming up like an exam, a deadline, etc. But when you have an anxiety disorder you feel this anxiousness pretty much all the time. It’s very frustrating when you are feeling anxious and you can’t spot the source of the stress. An anxiety disorder also produces intense and excessive emotional responses. Many individuals may be on edge before an exam, but a person with an anxiety disorder might be anxious several weeks beforehand, and even afterwards. This something that I deal with all the time. I and many other with an anxiety disorder will experience intense symptoms right before, during, and after the exam. Also, normal anxiety is fleeting, while an anxiety disorder is ongoing and the feelings can last weeks or months.

Scene 3:

Sound effects: Somber & intense music

Pictures: confusion face, someone acting dizzy and lightheaded, sweat dripping of hands, heavy breathing, and heart pounding fast, pounding headache, bathroom, shut mouth, reality disconnection, negative thoughts, losing confidence

Dialogue: This next thing, I hate talking about, because not many people relate to it or understand it, but for you to try and understand it I must explain it. I’m talking about the physical and psychological symptoms of having an anxiety disorder. Excessive anxiety and the feeling of being worried aren’t the only symptoms that comes with having an anxiety disorder. There are many physical symptoms like dizziness, light-headedness, sweating, trembling, heart pounding, headaches and nausea. You feel like you can’t breathe, can’t talk or must go to the bathroom frequently. Just trying to utter out simple phrases is hard because your body is trembling during these moments. I’m affected by these symptoms every day, some days just some of the symptoms, and somedays all of these things happen at once. The scariest part is that people with anxiety disorder also report feeling detachment or disconnection from reality. They feel like they can’t formulate their thoughts and have trouble concentrating. This especially happens whenever I try studying or taking a test. It’s just shocking to see just how much harder it is trying to concentrate with all these symptoms happening to me. At the same time, I experience a race of negative thoughts that is just flooding my brain. Many people with anxiety disorder have different times of the day when these negative thoughts rush into their head, but for me it happens in the morning, and it makes it harder to continue sleeping and get out of bed. The biggest consequence of this… is losing your confidence.

Scene 4: In this this I shall talk about my social anxiety and how it relates to the anxiety disorder

Scene 5: In this final scene I want to talk about the benefits, and good things that arouse from having an anxiety disorder. I don’t want the viewer to feel bad for me, or hopeless. I want to come up with a way to end this on a semi good note despite the negativity of the situation.