How do I describe something described by many?

I wanted to describe how I have to ride the anxiety wave knowing that when I hit the surface it would actually be rock bottom not at ground level because that's how I go back and forth between anxiety and depression. I wanted to say anxiety was like walking on eggshells but for me the experience with eggshells is actually only mildly bothersome but not disturbing and not really discouraging, a more accurate way to describe it is walking on broken pieces of glass. With thesetbroken pieces of glass you have no idea which one is going to pointing up or which one might be sharper than the next because that is how I experience anxiety, I tend to try to anticipate the hit and you know plan out my safety net so I get cut only a few time or I can imagine the pain and try to minimize it before it happens but of course all to no avail because my view is skewed by my surroundings so I cannot plan out a path good enough to avoid those cuts, I'm not only afraid of the pain I'll experience but also the noticeable marks I will carry on within me rather than outside of me so I keep that in mind as I take the first steps. Its takta me days to plan out just out of anticipating what would happen but I never know for sure, I can only assume what could happen. But at that anything could happen so it does not make sense to think about something so much because I can only take action once it happens and not before.