Tag: Anxiety

For someone who doesn’t live with anxiety, it can be difficult to understand and care for someone who does. It isn’t choosey in whose mind it captures, and it’s relentless in its efforts to destroy any peace one might have.

"It’s waking up tired even though your day just started. Anxiety is wanting to fix something that isn’t even a problem. It’s the stream of questions that make you doubt yourself."

"Seven concrete ways that might help lower your anxiety. Try them out and let me know how it goes."

"The day my Mom died I called my husband...Then he began to tell me a story about my Mom. A story that I never knew about her before because she didn’t want me to know."

"This post is from someone who dealt with fear, anxiety, worry, and depression for forty years, the last ten of those being the worst."

"It was one of the scariest times of my life. All I could tell myself was to keep breathing in and out, from one second to the next."

For someone who doesn’t live with anxiety, it can be difficult to understand and care for someone who does. This mom's letter is mental health GOLD.

"Until a few years ago as December approached I would find myself starting to worry. Would everyone have a good time? Had I remembered everyone’s presents? Did the house look festive enough? Pressure and stress built up as the list of non-negotiable (as I saw it at the time) events filled my diary."