Category: Anxiety/Depression
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What It’s Like To Be In Love When You Have Depression
“No one will love you until you learn to love yourself” is an easy enough phrase to believe is true. But it’s terrifying, especially when you have depression. What if you never learn? As a teenager, it made me fear for my life as an adult. I was certain I would never be capable of […]
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Depression Is Not the Same as Sadness
As our society grows and we are slowly beginning to destigmatize mental health, one of the most common and discussed mental illnesses is depression. And while it’s great that we are slowly starting to have open conversations, I fear there is a misunderstanding when it comes to what depression really is. When people think of depression, […]
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To Those Who Don’t ‘Get’ Anxiety and Depression, Welcome to My Morning
Welcome to my morning. I have woken up. Already I can feel my palms are starting to sweat. There’s a possibility that means a panic attack is coming on. I take a second to be grateful I didn’t wake up from having one because that feels like waking up from drowning. This way I have […]
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What Overthinking Actually Is — Because It’s So Much More Than Worrying
Overthinking. It’s the nights I spend not sleeping as mistakes I’ve made in the past act as a plague to my mind. It’s worrying about things that might never happen as I dwell over the things that have. It’s every fear I have that debilitates me. And as I think more, I hold back tears. […]
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I’m Depressed and Exhausted. All. The. Time.
For me, one of the harder aspects of living with depression is the fact that I am always exhausted. Nothing ever seems to quell the exhaustion. I try to get a good night’s sleep and eat healthy, limit my caffeine intake, etc., but I am always, always exhausted. There are some weekends when I sleep in and take […]
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How to Love a Girl With Anxiety
Don’t baby her. Don’t look at her with a worrying gaze every time she reaches her hand out to you. She isn’t broken. She isn’t mental. She’s only human. When she has a panic attack, don’t assume she’s faking it. Trust me, she isn’t. Hold her through her shaking, and tell her she is going to […]
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What It Feels Like When Depression and Anxiety Clash
The fight between depression and anxiety is the fight between not caring at all and caring about everything at once. It is long, sorrowful, lonely sobs that attack in the night and tell me they will never leave. It is a constant state of feeling like I’m barely holding on and I’m slipping but it won’t give out. It’s […]
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The Women Who Struggle With Anxiety Are Also The Strongest
She has been dealing with anxiety for some substantial time now and it certainly hasn’t been easy. The long has been rough and unfair; and even though she knows that the odds are stacked against her, she still continues to look at the world with a brave face. She doesn’t consider herself a victim because […]
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Day and Night: Having Both Anxiety and Depression
Let’s just be honest here… nothing is more exhausting than arguing with your own brain every day, all day. Every single thought is like a battle within itself. Having anxiety makes you care too much, having depression makes you not care enough. When you have both, it can be nothing short of hell. I may be smiling on […]
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I’m Sorry for the Things Anxiety Makes Me Do
I’m sorry for what my anxiety makes me do. And I want you to know it’s not me, it’s my anxiety. It’s not who I am fully, it’s just a piece of me. Anxiety makes me talk too fast or not at all. It makes me stay up too late and toss and turn until it’s 3 […]