I don't know if any of you experience this but sometimes I don't even realize how much anxiety I live with on a day-to-day basis. I think this is partly because it used to manifest itself as panic disorder-- I would have sometimes up to five full-blown panic attacks per day. Once this stopped it obviously made the anxiety seem a lot less, but then it began to manifest itself in different ways. With the panic attacks the anxiety was so obvious and in my face. Now with the generalized anxiety it doesn't keep from functioning the way the panic attacks did.... and I guess I'm so used to living like this now and glad I'm not having those panic attacks, that sometimes I don't even notice how bad my anxiety is. I live with such a constant level of anxiety and I feel it mentally and physically... but it is only sometimes that I stop and say-- holy %#@&#!-- this is bad, or this is interfering. This just came to mind because I'm sitting at my desk eating lunch and I suddenly realized that I was obsessing over how something just doesn't feel right-- or things don't look right... and I know it's all anxiety but then I end up getting anxious over the anxiety. A double layer. Then I just stop and think for a second about how I wish I could just calm down and enjoy my lunch rather than having my mind racing.