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Mine Unending Nightmare With Crippling Generalized Anxiety

Triggered to skyhigh elevated state when I received communiqué courtesy management warden christened and otherwise known as Jackie Geiger dated March 9, 2022. She averred fruit fly infestation constituted lease violation, which could spell eviction since said issue involving Drosophila melanogaster necessitated costly exterminator intervention subsequently delivered resultant severe savage psychological strafing regular panic attacks (analogous to EF5 tornadoes the highest category on Enhanced Fujita Scale) unleashed with punishing alimentary canal winds i.e. lower gastrointestinal expulsions, which prescription medication ineffective to subdue. Suddenly relatively short lived respite abruptly ended moderate freedom feeling diabolically tortured returned with a vengeance measuring reprieve in months and years removed when body electric felt tortured reverberated, and quaked with repercussions...tattooing, piercing, ensnaring... drubbing drum beat indelibly 'pon psyche NON MEMORABLE years gone bye felled psyche with incorporation, viz alphabet facebook, poetrysoup of physiological symptoms i.e. clammy palms, heart palpitation, irritable bowel syndrome, nausea, vertigo, et cetera (aside from above, I felt great) erupted bitta bing, bitta band tore rent cleaving, coping and crimping Master scribe harnesses words as Zeus employs thunder forcefully endearing themselves like Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen) hopscotching (hither and yon, to and fro) from one University to another well nigh, particularly when paying a visit to college cafeterias, (an unpleasant effect explaining abrupt termination umpteen post high school institutions, I matriculated), especially when hungry hordes (like angry twittering birds, long fostered century21 apes, or madding crowds of students rushing to lunch line for their seconds analogous to swelling sea of crusaders of yore - practically stampeding their way clamoring to be fed sustenance or spiritual succor respectively, but no sooner did this then rather bony gluteus maximus became situated at table (often whereby quick exit could be made in predictable panic stricken outcome pierced and hammered me with gut wrenching mental agony), the medley of organic constriction of throat re: named asphyxiation, furiously pounding ma poor heart, churning out hormonal adrenaline.

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