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r/Anxiety

Anxiety Disorders

r/Anxiety is an active safe-for-work Reddit community for mental health with 744,901 members and about 150 new posts a day.

Subscribers744.9K
Posts per day151
Posts all time897.6K
CreatedSep 2008
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About r/Anxiety

In its own words:

Discussion and support for sufferers and loved ones with anxiety conditions. Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit.

The community was created on Sep 15, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Among the 11 communities on our mental health list it is the largest.

What sets r/Anxiety apart

Compared with other large communities, r/Anxiety leans heavily on text posts (100% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 35%). People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 4.6 comments per post, against 13.0 for a typical large subreddit. For its size it is unusually busy: about 202.2 new posts a day per million members, more than 99% of the Top 100.

Top posts on r/Anxiety this week

This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 9, 2026).

  1. "do it scared" I'm tired of being scared doing everything. It's exhaustingu/microwavedwood · Nov 3 · text post
  2. too fragile for this worldu/imtrying444 · Nov 4 · text post
  3. Lexapro took away anxiety but made me spiritual and spend all my money?u/Crosstradingusemm · Nov 6 · text post
  4. After 28 years of mental struggle, I took my first pill of anxiety meds today. Life is too short for me to let my ego ruin it any longer. Wish me lucku/AdKitchen7540 · Nov 7 · text post
  5. how do any of you have jobs??u/RemarkableAlfalfa464 · Nov 3 · text post
  6. Why do I cry when people are rude to meu/Left_Message7958 · Nov 4 · text post
  7. My ESA cat died while I was gone over the weekend. I feel so bad for not being there.u/Do_unto_udders · Nov 3 · text post
  8. Is anxiety becoming the new normal, or are we just getting worse at hiding it?u/BigStrategy2704 · Nov 7 · text post
  9. How do you deal with the fear of death?u/Objective-Slip-9475 · Nov 5 · text post
  10. What would you be doing if you didn’t struggle with anxiety?u/quietwreck · Nov 8 · text post

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Anxiety, from 2017 to 2025, ranked by Reddit.

  1. Despite the anxiety, despite the depression, despite all my self criticism and imperfections - I was a beautiful bride this Saturday!u/WoollyNinja · Jul 16, 2018 · 4,882 points · 287 comments · image
  2. Today I promised myself bacon and eggs if I could get myself to a coffee meet up. I was too anxious to attend last week. Guess who got bacon and eggs?!! Feeling so proud of myself for going.u/Becky-and-Momo · Mar 15, 2019 · 4,704 points · 244 comments · image
  3. Professor here, if you have missed class, please come back. We aren’t mad at you.u/Lofty_Incantations11 · Feb 20, 2019 · 3,349 points · 210 comments · text post
  4. Message from your future selfu/your_nameless_friend · Mar 19, 2019 · 3,275 points · 99 comments · image
  5. My Uber driver had a panic attack mid-ride. Here's what happened.u/SendBoobPics4ADollar · Apr 29, 2021 · text post
  6. I was thinking why this sub has a lot more upvotes than comments, realized people are too anxious to comment,lolu/AnnieIsBestGirl · Jan 31, 2018 · 2,353 points · 85 comments · text post
  7. Have my first real, adult, job interview today! Not only that, but I also managed to drive by myself in city traffic! Two small victories 😊u/kay-tuh-lin · Feb 26, 2019 · 3,720 points · 140 comments · image
  8. 1. Anxiety makes it hard to go to sleep 2. Depression makes it hard to get out of bed 3. Drink coffee for a boost 4. Caffeine makes anxiety worse 5. Repeatu/yeahforsureno · Sep 16, 2019 · 3,676 points · 173 comments · text post
  9. Do you ever stay up late cause it’s your time to just exist?Nov 30, 2021 · 3,566 points · 194 comments · text post
  10. Today is my cake day and I wanted to post a pic of me smiling for once. Things are starting to look up.Mar 12, 2019 · 3,575 points · 180 comments · image

What r/Anxiety talks about

Across 599 recent posts (Oct 31–Nov 7), the words that come up most are “panic”, “help”, “feel”, “anxious” and “feeling”. Other frequent themes are life, scared, attack, health, heart and social. Recurring phrases include “panic attack”, “panic attacks”, “panic disorder” and “air hunger”. By format, 100% are text posts.

  • panic 30
  • help 29
  • feel 22
  • anxious 21
  • feeling 20
  • life 19
  • scared 18
  • attack 17
  • health 17
  • heart 16
  • social 15
  • work 14
  • fear 13
  • sleep 13
  • experienced 12
  • stop 11
  • attacks 11
  • physical 10

Popular post flairs: Advice Needed (147), Medication (100), Health (72), Venting (69), Needs A Hug/Support (50), Discussion (38).

Activity and best time to post

r/Anxiety gets about 150 new posts a day. The public archive holds 897,617 posts and 4,165,471 comments in total, about 4.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (165 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (126). Posting peaks around 18:00 UTC and is lowest around 05:00 UTC.

00: 620001: 4702: 3503: 310304: 3605: 2606: 310607: 3708: 3009: 280910: 2711: 3512: 391213: 3414: 4715: 471516: 5017: 5718: 661819: 5320: 5221: 482122: 5223: 53
Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 31, 2026 – Nov 6, 2026
Text posts 100%

Rules of r/Anxiety

The moderators of r/Anxiety list 14 rules. In short:

  1. Relevance
  2. Be Supportive
  3. Be Mindful of Triggers
  4. No Reassurance Seeking
  5. Do Not Ask for Medical Diagnoses
  6. No Discussion of Where to Buy Drugs
  7. Do Not Promote Quick Fixes
  8. No Grandstanding
  9. No Self-Promotion (Blogs/Vlogs Included)
  10. No Solicitation

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/Anxiety and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How many subscribers does r/Anxiety have?

r/Anxiety has 744,901 subscribers.

When was r/Anxiety created?

r/Anxiety was created on Sep 15, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.

Is r/Anxiety still active?

Yes. r/Anxiety gets about 150 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 897,617 posts and 4,165,471 comments. In a sample of 599 recent posts we counted 560 different authors.

What is the best time to post in r/Anxiety?

Based on post counts from Oct 31, 2026 to Nov 6, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 18:00 UTC, with the fewest around 05:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What kind of posts are on r/Anxiety?

The community describes itself as: “Discussion and support for sufferers and loved ones with anxiety conditions. Please look over the rules before posting to the subreddit.” Recent post titles often mention panic, help, feel, anxious and feeling. Most posts are text posts (100%).

Is r/Anxiety SFW?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Anxiety as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

What are the rules of r/Anxiety?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Anxiety accepts text posts only, with galleries enabled. It has 14 posted rules, starting with: “Relevance”; “Be Supportive”; “Be Mindful of Triggers”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 9, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Anxiety.