Category: Anxiety/Depression
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Here’s What The Dark Days Of My Depression Really Feel Like
Waking up with depression isn’t easy. Waking up with depression is hard. You hear the loud beep of your cell phone alarm pound through your ears, much louder than you remember from the night before. You check your alarm, think to yourself, “Ten more minutes of sleep wouldn’t hurt.” Then doze off for your last […]
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What It Feels Like To Have Anxiety, Because It Isn’t Us ‘Being Crazy’
Living with anxiety is like being followed by a voice. It knows all your insecurities and uses them against you. It gets to the point when it’s the loudest voice in the room, no matter how much you try to get rid of it, it’s just there. Having no control over your own mind, your thoughts, […]
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This Is For The Ones Going Through Something
The storm you have been going through seems endless, the pain you have been feeling is like a broken record of emotional memories that can be felt every single time they come back again. What you have been going through is a series of pain, struggle, and a lot of tears. But yet, you still […]
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This “I Have Anxiety” Trend Is Giving Diagnosed Anxiety Disorders A Bad Reputation
It’s not cool, and it’s not trendy. Nowadays, almost everyone suddenly has “bad anxiety.” Whether it’s test anxiety, social anxiety or traveling anxiety, the more stressed out a person is, the more anxiety they claim to have. While some may actually have anxiety disorders, it is so important for the people who do not to […]
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My Anxiety Attacks Do Not Have To Be Obvious To Exist
Just because you cannot see that someone is panicking does not mean that they aren’t. One thing I should have never listened to when I was going through a time of figuring out my anxiety was everyone’s opinions about not having apparent anxiety attacks. I was convinced that my anxiety was not a problem because […]
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Her Anxiety Is Killing Her Inside, But You Would Never Be Able To Tell
No one realizes she has anxiety because she is still able to function. On the outside, she looks like everybody else. She has a job. She has friends. She has a good personality. She is fun to be around, as long as she feels comfortable. No one realizes she has anxiety because she never uses it as […]
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I Am A Highly Functioning Human Being, But I Still Struggle With Anxiety
These irrational thoughts and fears will not hold me back. Every morning I wake up before my alarm and my thoughts start to flood my brain before I’ve even stepped out of bed. I don’t wake up early on purpose– it’s just this automatic freak out that I have as soon as the first ray […]
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Dating Is Depressing AF When You Genuinely Want To Find Love
If you’re dating because you truly want to find love with a great guy you can build a future with, you probably end up disappointed a lot of the time. Finding someone that you click with and who wants the same thing in life as you do might seem like a simple enough request, but […]
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My Anxiety Is Manageable… Until I Start Dating
Living with anxiety is hard enough, but dating makes things 10 times worse. Sometimes I just want to raise a white flag and give up on meeting guys altogether. Here are all the ways dating has made my anxiety go from manageable to out of control: 1. I’M CONSTANTLY WORRYING ABOUT EVERY POSSIBLE THING. Worrying is like […]
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What does it mean to be in a relationship with a girl who has Anxiety?
Note: A lot of stuff in this article can be applied to men with anxiety, as well as women. But since I’m a woman who has gone through anxiety, this is going to be from my point of view. Anxiety is nothing but excess, and excess of everything is bad. It is excess of worry, […]