Category: Anxiety/Depression
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How Girls With Anxiety Love Differently
You will never regret us. You’re swimming in an ocean, and without notice or warning, you begin slipping under the surface. You kick and kick, slowly losing your breath. You can’t breathe, but you keep kicking. No matter how hard you kick, how hard you try to scream, no one can hear you or help […]
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5 Reasons Why Toxic People Make Your Anxiety So Much Worse
1. They Put You Down Toxic people have a desire to make others feel exactly how they feel. Unhappy and miserable, just to name a few. Whether intentional or not, they will put you down through harmful comments, constant sarcasm, belittling statements and through passive-aggressive behavior. They may claim that they are joking around or that […]
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Your Anxiety Won’t Ruin Your Relationship With The Right Person
Your anxiety will chase away the wrong person. When you ask for reassurance that they care about you, they will get annoyed because you should already know how they feel, they shouldn’t have to repeat themselves every five seconds. When you get quiet for seemingly no reason, when you shut down because your anxiety is […]
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My Anxiety Convinces Me That Everyone Hates Me
Because of my anxiety, I take everything personally. If a friend takes a little too long to answer a text, I start making assumptions.They don’t want to talk to me. I’m annoying them. They’re ignoring me on purpose. They don’t like me. They hate me. I dread sending the first text because there is a chance […]
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To the People Who Don’t Understand Why Mental Illness Makes Me So Tired
“Hey, are you OK?” “Yeah. I’m just tired…” What am I tired of exactly, you ask? I’m tired of: being anxious, feeling worthless, being depressed, feeling too much emotion, not feeling enough emotion, wanting to stay in bed, not being able to sleep, feeling alone, panic attacks, crying, hurting, shaking, being paranoid, worrying, being stressed, […]
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When Tiredness Becomes a Part of Your Life
Exhaustion. It overpowers you as you wake up in the morning. Ironic right, that you are exhausted from sleep. The reality of the situation is that thousands of people wake up feeling this way every morning. Whether mentally or physically ill, we do not wake up feeling refreshed, but rather we wake up feeling like […]
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When Depression Makes You Go Into Social ‘Hibernation’
It’s no secret that I work through mental health issues every day. It’s something I’m incredibly proud of — not in some weird, misinformed “Woohoo depression is a blast!” way, but just that I’m happy to speak up about something people have been shamed into silence about for so long. If I’m going to share myself so publicly, I […]
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The Contradiction of Living With Both Anxiety and Depression
As you probably know, I have the misfortune of living with both a severe anxiety disorder and clinical depression. Firstly, to understand what living with both feels like, you need to understand them separately to understand how they dramatically contrast each other. This really makes everything just that much worse. With anxiety (and this depends on the person and […]
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20 ‘Harmless’ Comments That Actually Hurt People With Anxiety
If you live with anxiety, you might be familiar with some of the seemingly “harmless” but incredibly hurtful things people often say to those struggling with it. Sometimes these “harmless” comments come in the form of a question. (Have you tried meditating?) Sometimes they come with a “solution” via personal anecdote. (Becky used to get panic attacks, […]
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25 Things You Do as an Adult When You’ve Experienced Childhood Emotional Abuse
It has been said that “no one escapes childhood unscathed.” But sayings like these can have an especially significant meaning for a person who has experienced emotional abuse as a child. The effects of emotional abuse can be both debilitating and far-reaching, often extending out of childhood and into adolescence and adulthood. For many, experiencing emotional […]