Tag: mentalillness
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Reminding Myself to Never Abandon Myself
People suffer from a vast majority of things and ailments every day. For someone like me, it’s hard to believe. I just assumed I was stressing too much but I didn’t really find out until almost my 30’s that it was all anxiety and mild depression. It is hard to be social. I’ve always had…
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Anxiety Is Nothing But Touble
Anxiety isn’t about having trouble breathing or waking up at 3am in the middle of of the night. Anxiety erupts for no reasons. When I’m having anxiety symptoms, it’s about stressing over that may or may not be real or questioning my faith. Changing of my moods in a matter of minutes and uncontrollable. My…
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Wearing My Heart On My Sleeve
Speaking up is not my gift. This is something I try hard to do but when the time arises, I’m just unable to. I’m reluctant to speak out for fear of hurting another’s feelings – even when I know I’m right. I have dealt with recurrent depressive episodes that went unseen and undiagnosed. I have…
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Living With Anxiety- Because It’s Not About Being Quiet
Anxiety is far more than just bent the “quiet one”, especially social anxiety. It’s about over-analyzing. It’s constantly analyzing your every word, every action and every movement. Believing that you are a collection of flaws and mistakes — and it’s this perception is all the world to see. More than 40 million adults in the…
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So what is an introvert?
I don’t know about other people but I have known for a long time that I’m different. My dad would always call me the shy and timid one. All my life, I tried to fit into this extrovert society that we live in and even if I attempt to raise my voice I obviously sucked…