Category: Anxiety/Depression

Anxiety is difficult on a few levels for the individual that suffers from the disorder, but when it’s your partner, it can be challenging to help them get back to being themselves after having a panic attack. It’s scary, it’s confusing, and to some sufferers it can feel incredibly isolating. Let me iterate here that […]

Many people think that individuals with anxiety or depression can wake up one day and decide to ‘get better’. That we can wake up one day and decide to ‘smile, chug coffee, and deal with it’. I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but anxiety isn’t something that we can just ‘turn off’. Anxiety isn’t something […]

Anxiety is the restless nights of sleep, as you toss and turn. It’s your brain never being able to shut off. It’s the thoughts you over-think before bedtime and all of your worst fears become a reality in dreams and nightmares. It’s waking up tired even though your day just started. Anxiety is learning how […]

I don’t reach out to people. I’m terrified of talking on the phone and starting conversations with strangers. I’m even scared of texting certain friends and coming on too strong, of graduating from a concerned friend to an annoying nuisance. So I delete messages. I wait too long to answer back. I don’t let on that I […]

In the United States, anxiety disorders impact 18% of the population, making them the most common mental illness in the country. When triggered, the signs of anxiety can vary dramatically from person to person, including chills, shortness of breath, dry mouth, nausea, sweatiness, dizziness and muscle tension. The experience can be frightening, especially when it comes […]

We all have that one friend who we make plans with that never seem to materialise. They accept every invite, seem to be enthusiastic about their attendance and then, right at the last minute, their excuse will arrive like clockwork. One of the kids is ill. My parents have come round. I’ve had to work […]

Let’s Start From Here. Do You Know What Anxiety Is? Anxiety is regularly experienced stress that shows as fear, panic, tension, sleeplessness, irritability. What differs anxiety from ordinary forms of tension and apprehensiveness, is the fact that a great deal of it is irrational and also unpredictable. It is normal and logical to lose your sleep and appetite […]

Anxiety is an invalid excuse. I just got back to my room after a failed attempt to go to class. I’m sitting here, writing this, trying to think of something to email my professor to sugarcoat what I’m feeling, to really drive home the point that class today was unbearable for me. You see if […]