Personal Narrative: My Experience With 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,

All my life, I have suffered from generalized anxiety disorder, which can make it difficult to do mundane tasks and educational requirements. For example, giving speeches, taking exams and quizzes, and having to communicate with other students that I do not know. I have been sheltered most of my life, which causes things that would be considered basic to other people to scare me. After analyzing my anxious tendencies, I came to the conclusion that the root of my anxiety comes from having seperation anxiety from my Mother after my Father passed away, which made me scared to talk to people, resulting in speech anxiety. My main fear with my speech anxiety is that I will receive a bad grade on my speech or not do well enough academically. I strive

Although there is a plethora of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and alcoholism that run rampant in my family; I never spoke about mental illness with either of my parents until I was diagnosed with social anxiety, OCD, and panic disorder at 18. At that age I wasn’t even aware that anxiety was more than just feeling nervous or that it was a treatable diagnosis. After describing the symptoms of what I now know to be a panic attack to my general doctor, she referred me to a psychiatrist who prescribed me three pills, two were for anxiety, and one which was for my panic attacks.

When I was little, I was suffering with illness anxiety disorder. A minor symptom or body sensation would easily make me think that I have some kind of serious illnesses. It was all started back when was six, when my grandpa was diagnosed with cancer. He died after a year battle with cancer. However, everything changed when I was in the summer of third grade, when I noticed that one of my breasts was unusually bigger than the other. I didn’t tell my parent after a while because I did not like the idea of going to the hospital. I hated hospitals, I hated the smell and the feelings of being there; the last time I was there was when I was visiting my grandpa.

After being hospitalized for meningitis when I was eleven years old, I began to struggle with anxiety and a stutter. Although I did not have these problems before my illness, no one is certain that meningitis was the cause.

Anyone experiencing panic attacks knows all too well what it is like to experience these. The people I’ve worked with have described many of those symptoms. It is happening to all segments of our society. One lady told me she tried to hide it because she didn’t want to have people think she was crazy, she felt like she was crazy or at least going crazy. It can be debilitating. High functioning individuals can have panic attacks. One person I worked with had been experiencing panic attacks for over twenty years and yet was financially doing well. He had learned to manage and cope; he had developed some amazing survival skills. The best way he had been able to manage these episodes was to be an entrepreneur, which allowed him to call his own hours and

Personally, I have gone through a recovery process with anxiety disorder. Last year, I went through a dark phase because I dealt with the feeling of constant fear with no little explanation 24hrs. Even though everything in my life was perfect, I could not sleep, eat, and be happy. I was excessively worrying something bad could happen to me and I was unable to relax.As months progressed, my situation got worse that it impacted my daily activities in life such as going to school or work. I felt like I was suffocating deep in my thoughts and trapped in a prison. However, no one in my family could understand what was going on. My family would make comments such as stop fearing and pray. I felt so miserable that I could not have peace inside me.

At the age of 18, I started experiencing symptoms of anxiety, and for a period of 3 years I pushed through and preserved with this illness and managed to somehow stay afloat, even in extreme situations. After having an epiphany of how I wanted to live my life, I came to a conclusion that pushing through wasn’t going to be enough; I had to make the conscious effort to be better. The first step I took was admitting there was a problem, and taking responsibility. This action not only begun the steps to full recovery and liberation, but also made me realize that the fear of confronting the “fear” had been the source of my predicament, and the denial had lead to even more complications. Subsequently after that I opened about my health to my family,

Just to warn you I cannot write (as you can probably tell) but these "creative rants" are just how I express myself and get my feelings out.

So i know i have not told you but I have been having panic attacks and i saw a doctor and counselor about it. I honestly think this has been happening for some time now but i just started to realize it. And that one day i went to your house i think i was just having a panic attack. But my counselor told me to write letters to my closest friends. So um ill be honest i didn't like you the first times i meet you i'm sure you know that but not that im hanging out with you you're pretty cool. But im going to be honest you are as close as family to me but i dont know what exactly is up with you lately but you have been acting like a dick recently but whatever. Um honestly smoking with you ivan and alex was a fun time especially everyday

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

My father always told me to try my hardest, as every caring parent does. He made my sisters and me strive to be the best at whatever we do. He then died. It was October 3rd of 2006; he was on his motorcycle going to work when he was hit and killed on impact by a driver who made an illegal U-turn. It was October 3rd of 2006 when he left my mother, sisters, little brother, and myself to go on and make him proud. Since then there has been no stronger driving force for my efforts and success. While there have been challenges along the way, I, with the constant support of my family, have done my best to meet my goals.

As a young girl I have always had a constant fear residing inside of me. Growing up I was never the loud outgoing kid. I was reserved and hated being the center of attention. I had what many would call social anxiety. People think social anxiety is just being shy, reserved or depressed. But they don't understand what goes on inside the mind of a person who's constantly scared of rejection, messing up or being judged. They assume that if they can't see it it's not really there. Over the course of my life, I have faced many challenges but through them all I am still standing.

Anxiety is an emotion of fear or panic, and majority people feel anxious, panicky or fearful about many situations in life. Taking students as an example, their most fear or panicky times are during their exam, but once the difficult situation is over, the feeling will make the young person feel calmer and better. Likewise, there are people who will still have a feeling of fear or anxiety continued after the difficult situation is over, or even feel a stronger sense of fear than others. If this is the case, this will cause a problem, therefore, will affect everyday life (AnixetyUK 2015). A further aspect of anxiety are the symptoms. Symptoms include: feeling frightened, nervous or panicky all the time. At times, the patient may feel depressed

This article is another personal story about anxiety. Mandy didn’t want people to know she had terrible anxiety because she didn’t want to be treated differently from everyone else. She was so scared of the stigma she could get from it that it made it worse. The end of the article discusses what people could have done to help her and make sure she was doing