My (33F) mother’s (57F) favorite thing to do in life is scare my brother (35M) and I. Most people think it’s funny and sometimes looking back on the scares when we were kids, I would agree. The problem is that it really triggers my anxiety. If I am already a bit anxious that day, her scaring me makes it worse. All week I have had some pretty rough anxiety. I had to take my medication 3x. (This is more than I have taken all year). Yesterday I was at my parents house and only mildly anxious. I was coming out of the restroom when my mother jumped out screaming and scaring the crap out of me. I got upset and yelled at her to stop. I could already feel my anxiety growing pretty bad. I said I was going home and my mom got upset that I couldn’t take a joke. I really hate having anxiety issues around other people. My sad called me a few hours later upset that I left and kept going on about me being over dramatic. I hung up on him and I haven’t spoken to either of them since. My family knows that I get anxiety and I prefer to be alone to deal with it. How can I convince them that it is not funny when my mother sets me up in her scare pranks? That scaring me makes my anxiety really bad?