I Have A Lot Of Anxiety

Living with anxiety is a battle everyday. I wake up and I’m not sure if today will be good or bad. It can start out good, but the next thing I know, I’m having a panic attack. The world around me starts to cave in, and the noise I hear becomes static; it’s as if I’m being swallowed whole. Suffering from a panic attack is incredibly embarrassing. Nobody understands what I’m going through, they all think it’s in my head or that I’m being dramatic. What they don’t understand is that, it’s a real problem. Just like any other illness, anxiety is paralyzing; so are panic attacks. There are days I don’t want to get out of bed because I’m afraid that today is the day everything will end, so it’s just safer to stay in bed. My anxiety is unpredictable,

Everyone experiences some form of anxiety within their life. Anxiety is highly individualized; meaning that each person who experiences

Anxiety plagues millions of Americans every day. There are so many people who go about their daily lives struggling with an untreated anxiety disorder. Contrary to popular assumption, anxiety is not something that goes away on its own. Each anxiety disorder is unique, and finding a way to treat your own type of anxiety can be a very emotionally taxing experience.

When I feel anxiety a strategy I use or would like to implement in future situations is to tell my parents, siblings or friends about what made me worry so that they can make

Growing up I've always struggled with anxiety, but I never really knew what to call it up until a couple of years ago. He said that he would be very happy to give me a couple of tricks to help and to setup an appointment with him if I felt like things were getting worse or weren't getting better. He told me that: giving yourself time away from distractions such as listening to music or doing calming activates would help reduce my mild anxiety, as well as eating a balanced diet, controlling my breathing to deep breathes, and most immortally staying positive and keeping a positive attitude.

I still cry and get scared because the feeling of being anxious is awful. I feel helpless and as if I am being consumed and I have no control of that and I’m not sure I ever will.The thing that has changed about my experience is I accept it now instead of trying to avoid it or dismiss it. I pride myself on my ability to be resilient and my anxiety tests that every day. As I practice resiliency while anxiety I become stronger toward other challenges I may face during my day. Though my anxiety is draining and can be destructive it makes me the strong person that I

“Who told you?” he asked softly.  His voice was fragile and shaky, like he was once again on the verge of tears.

I'm actually kind of nervous right now talking about my anxiety so I'll just say this: I swear to god, I experience every symptom on the list. When I still had to take gym class in elementary, I would absolutely refuse to do it because I thought I would look stupid and my classmates would make fun of me. I get so nervous talking in front of a large group of people or giving presentations and will purposely fake sick to miss class for an entire week if I have to just to avoid it. In school, when I forget what class I have first (our periods rotate on even and odd days) or I'm late, I'll skip them because I don't want to walk in to the wrong class or be the center of attention for 5 seconds. I avoid using public bathrooms when someone else is in there because..well, I don't want them to hear me pee and think that I pee weird or something. I know that's completely ridiculous, but it's just something I can't help. I always avoid calling people on the phone or making small talk with a cashier at a store or talking in front of people I don't know because what if I say something stupid or embarrassing?

There was a time that I use to have crippling anxiety attacks and it’s something I deal with on a daily basis, but it’s something that through the years I have become better at mastering and taming. My anxiety is something that use to cripple me and make me choke during speeches. Sometimes just being in front of people would cause an episode. I use to be afraid of meeting new people and I let it constantly control my actions and stop me from taking chances and opportunities. This is something that I regret to this day. Now I try to get more involved with people and make new friends. I have made so many new friends by not letting my anxiety control me.

Anxiety is something I personally deal with every day. My anxiety includes stress anxiety, separation anxiety, social anxiety, and many more. Being in large crowds overwhelms me and sometimes even really loud noises makes me upset. When I am in

Anxiety Disorder is a reaction, an arousal to a stimulus that we perceive as dangerous or threatening, it is manifested biologically as an overarousal of brain areas involved in impulse control and habitual behaviors. This disorder affect the lives of 40 million of adult Americans. With regards to this, different people react to their anxieties in their own way; some people use anxiety as a motivator, but others view this disorder as a demon, constantly ruining their lives. The link between conditioned fear and general anxiety will help explain why anxious people are hyper attentive to uncontrollable situations. Anxiety is something that could make you or break you, your perception and understanding is what will determine it.

Famous philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard states, “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” Anxiety has removed people from their full potential emotionally, mentally, and physically. The year anxiety started to remove me was freshman year during volleyball season. I didn’t look forward to practice or games. Unfailingly hearing, “get on the line,” after every single slight mistake in the butterfly drill. Being in shape for cross country because we constantly had to run instead of actually doing fundamental drills. Then came Sophomore year, I asked my mom every night if I had to go to school the next day because I dreaded it so much. I had no motivation to study, spend time with friends or family, and I was consistently going through the motions. Depression, anxiety, and fear had taken over my life and was testing my faith to its limits.

Overtime, individuals develop their own unique way of reducing anxiety. These individuals may use positive strategies such as, exercising, reading, and dancing, or negative strategies such as, crying, yelling, and smoking.

If we take a couple of examples from the movie “As Good as it Gets (1997)” you could get an understanding of how one with anxiety thinks and acts. In the movie, the main character Melvin Udall is a misunderstood, as well as misunderstanding, person who goes through many of problems without an understanding of why. If you watched the movie you will notice that Melvin doesn’t have any friends. In fact he purposely avoided most people although every day, he would go to the same diner, sit in the same seat

Figuring out that I had anxiety took a while, I always felt like I was anxious a lot more than everyone else and beyond stressed at a young age. It just did not click in my head that there might be something wrong. I was living my life in a low state, depressed and having multiple panic attacks through the day at any giving time and there was no obvious thing that trigger them. I was miserable to the point I did not want to get out of bed, I was too afraid. This caused me to become super depressed, to the point of cutting and thinking of my options to end this cruel disorder that was taking over my life.