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Is it intuition or anxiety?

That feeling in your stomach: is it knowing, or is it fear?

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That feeling in your stomach: is it knowing, or is it fear?

Intuition and anxiety can feel almost the same from the inside. Both arrive without being asked, both sit somewhere in the body, and both insist that something matters. The difference is usually in the details: how the feeling arrives, what it says, and what happens when you rest.

Nine questions about one feeling that has been bothering you. Hold it in mind while you answer. This is not a diagnosis and it cannot replace talking to someone. If worry is getting in the way of your days, a doctor is a good first person to tell.

2 minutes · 9 questions

the questions in this quiz

  1. How does the feeling arrive?

    • Quietly, and it stays calm
    • Suddenly, with a rush in the chest
    • Quietly at first, then fear piles on top
    • More as a heaviness than a message

  2. What happens to it after a good night's sleep?

    • It is still there, just as calm
    • It mostly fades, until the next thing
    • It is quieter, but something is still underneath
    • It lifts almost completely

  3. If the feeling could talk, what would it say?

    • One simple thing, the same thing each time
    • A long list of what-ifs
    • One clear thing, and then a lot of worst cases
    • I cannot face this right now

  4. How urgent does it feel?

    • Not urgent at all. It can wait for you
    • It needs an answer now, this minute
    • Urgent only when you picture the worst case
    • You do not have the energy for urgency

  5. When you imagine acting on it, you feel...

    • A quiet sense of rightness
    • Relief for a moment, then a new worry
    • Scared, but also that it is right
    • Tired just thinking about it

  6. Have you felt this way about other things?

    • Rarely. This one is specific
    • Yes, the same kind of worry turns up about lots of things
    • This touches an old hurt
    • Lately almost everything feels like this

  7. What does your body do when you think about it?

    • It settles
    • Tight chest, racing thoughts
    • A bit of both, calm and then a jolt
    • Heavy and slow

  8. If a friend described this feeling to you, you would say...

    • Trust that
    • You are spiralling. Breathe first
    • There is something real here, but separate it from the fear
    • You need rest before you decide anything

  9. When did it start?

    • It has been steady for a while, saying the same thing
    • It comes and goes with stress
    • After something that really happened
    • When life got too full

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