Am I (26) the only one whose anxiety doesn’t look like crazy heaving out of breath can’t sit still sweaty etc? 

I have had anxiety for years. Although I only recently learnt that what I felt was anxiety. This is due to the fact that mental health awareness does not really exist in my country. Another reason was that my anxiety doesn’t come the way it’s portrayed on tv or in shows. It’s quite the opposite actually.

Despite feeling like all my insides are vibrating aggressively, I tend to usually stay quite calm as if lost in a deep thought. I rarely feel out of breath or get the sweats or get jittery. If anything, whenever I do show these signs I’m not even that anxious and I can easily shake the feeling. It’s as if I’m just slightly nervous. The bad days are usually the silent calm ones. It’s hard for people to believe you are having an anxiety attack when you look like you should have a cocktail in one hand whilst laying on the beach.