Tag: Anxiety

  • Everyday Medicated Anxiety at 22

    Everyday Medicated Anxiety at 22

    On the surface, I’m an average 22 year old. Working on my last semester of college, while trying to work to keep myself out of as much debt as possible. I like to watch movies and hangout with my friends on the weekends. Beneath the surface, is where things start to get complicated. Some days…

  • Unanticipated Anxiety

    Unanticipated Anxiety

    As someone with anxiety, I can usually predict when I might feel anxious and what situations might cause anxiety. However, over the weekend for the first time since I was diagnosed, I had a anxiety attack. When I was in middle school, I had multiple anxiety attacks that lasted over the course of a month.…

  • Anxiety and Parties

    Anxiety and Parties

    How would someone feel about going to a party where dozens to maybe a hundred people are people are? On the surface it doesn’t seem too bad. However, you can’t force yourself into that person’s brain to understand what they are feeling. Anxiety comes in many different forms and has many different causes. Some have…

  • My Anxiety Diagnosis

    My Anxiety Diagnosis

    I was officially diagnosed with anxiety in December 2019, however I know that I’ve struggled with it for longer. In middle school, like seventh or eight grade, I began to have these horrible headaches that also caused a shortage of breath. I missed an entire month of school and had work sent home by all…

  • To My Anxiety

    To My Anxiety

    When I’m upset. I shut myself down. I have no motivation for anything. I tell myself nobody cares, even though I know some do. I think about all the negative things I could possible think of. I give myself all the pain, thinking I deserve it. I’m not sure why I do that. That’s just…