Friday, November 7, 2014

Anxiety

I suffer from anxiety. Unlike most people i feel like i have been able to control my anxiety as i go through high school. I get a lot of anxiety over time, and especially about being late. I have a new attitude of school is not a life or death situation, if i hand an assignment in late nobody will die. I do not bet overly anxious over tests and quizzes anymore. I was hot mess by the end of my first year of high school, i got anxiety attacks on a nearly daily basis the summer before my second year. I attend therapy at the end of that summer, which really helped me. It helped me put everything in order, and think rationally about the things that i got anxiety about daily. For example i used to pack my bag the night before but in the morning i would check my bag obsessively, using checking to make sure i had my pencil case. Therapy helped me see that what was the possible thing that could happen if i forgot my pencil case, and was the possibly that i had forgot my pencil case. When i am anxious and on the verge of a panic attack, nobody should tell me to calm down, or tell me i am being irrational, they should just leave me alone. My personally i need to be alone, i NEED to have space to breath, i need to talk myself through it.

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