My Struggle With Anxiety-Personal Narrative

That was the phrase that had been assaulting my ears for the last half an hour. Although it wasn’t odd that someone was telling me that specific phrase, this time it was different. My grandmother, whom I thought had understood my problems, had just proven to me that she actually didn’t. At the age of 12, I was heartbroken.

One time my anxiety almost stopped me from doing something I knew I would really love, is when I got asked to prom. To my best friend, it seemed perfect, we were going to the prom with two guys that were also best friends, buying beautiful dresses, and looking forward to such a magical night. To me, it was plainly trying to get through the night painlessly. I remember wanting to cancel so badly, even after I had purchased everything and made tons of plans. On the day of prom, my nerves were awful and I could feel the adrenaline coursing through my body. But you know what? I had an amazing

As I got older, the feelings of anxiety grew more intense until everything seemed to come crashing down all at once. Eventually, I decided that I had had enough of constantly feeling suffocated from my anxiety. I began to do lots of research and would do projects on anything and everything involving mental health. Remembering how awful I felt everyday, I decided that I would do everything I could to help others with their mental health. I would constantly check in with my friends to make sure that they were okay and that they were taking care of themselves. I became a more caring and sympathetic person from something that had total control over my life. I do not think I would be the person I am today if I had not dealt with those feelings of anxiety and

My Anxiety and Panic Disorder have greatly impacted my life in that there are many things I missed out on doing as I was to anxious to attempt them. After my Grandpa died it became more difficult to cope with the anxiety and I asked my mom to help me find a way to cope. This was a difficult task because we do not have health insurence and we can not afford to pay out of pocket for health care. After over a year of searching for a doctor we could afford to help with my ever growing anxiety we found Mercy Heath Clinic. Mercy Health makes it easy and afforadble to get physical and mental medical care for uninsured people. I was able to start regularly seeing both a medical doctor to prescribe medication for the anxiety, as well as, a therapist

Like I said before,”we all have anxiety and we can’t really get rid of it”. Some people do have it worse than others, but we can get through this. People’s anxiety is dependant on their genes and how bad of an area you live in but we can get through

At the age of 18, I started experiencing symptoms of anxiety, and for a period of 3 years I pushed through and preserved with this illness and managed to somehow stay afloat, even in extreme situations. After having an epiphany of how I wanted to live my life, I came to a conclusion that pushing through wasn’t going to be enough; I had to make the conscious effort to be better. The first step I took was admitting there was a problem, and taking responsibility. This action not only begun the steps to full recovery and liberation, but also made me realize that the fear of confronting the “fear” had been the source of my predicament, and the denial had lead to even more complications. Subsequently after that I opened about my health to my family,

Personally, I have gone through a recovery process with anxiety disorder. Last year, I went through a dark phase because I dealt with the feeling of constant fear with no little explanation 24hrs. Even though everything in my life was perfect, I could not sleep, eat, and be happy. I was excessively worrying something bad could happen to me and I was unable to relax.As months progressed, my situation got worse that it impacted my daily activities in life such as going to school or work. I felt like I was suffocating deep in my thoughts and trapped in a prison. However, no one in my family could understand what was going on. My family would make comments such as stop fearing and pray. I felt so miserable that I could not have peace inside me.

There are only two thing you can do for treatment of anxiety, but you have to be patient. You can have a headache,

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18% of the population; that statistic includes myself. Sophomore year of high school, I was diagnosed with GAD which stands for generalized anxiety disorder, and I was also diagnosed with social anxiety, major depression and chronic daily headache. When my therapist told me I was diagnosed with all of those disorders, I was not shocked. I knew for a very long time that something was not okay with me, now it was just a matter of how I was going to deal with what I was just diagnosed with and if I was going to let it define my life. Anxiety is something I dealt with in my past, something I am dealing with in the present, and I am going to conquer it for my future here at Saint Ben’s.

When I was younger I loved school more than anything, the only thing I was worried about was understanding fractions. I had nothing to worry about except disappointing my parents, my sister was a straight a student her whole life and my parents always held me up to that standard they did not mean to it’s just i knew i was smart and they knew but i couldn’t put in the effort. I did not know what it was called when i was younger but i had anxiety I still have it. Whenever i would talk or think about school i would have some version of an anxiety attack because as I got older it became the most stressful thing in my life. Then during my sophomore year a friend told me about IB they said it would make me a better student. I listened to them and

When I began to realize how much it influenced me, I turned my anxiety into something tangible. I used it as a source of motivation, and in a way, a reality check. My overthinking

Speech: a word that terrifies me and makes me feel absolutely sick to my stomach. Finding out that my S.H.I.E.L.D. Speech was more of a speech about me and my life, though, partially lessened that anxiety I originally felt. I’ve never been good at speaking in front of people. It’s always made me feel sort of uneasy in some way, so I knew that no amount of preparation would make me feel any better. Yet, I still did it, hoping to improve in any way. When I finally had the actual shield for this speech done, I sat my parents down and tried to give it to them. Needless to say, it didn’t work. I choked up. I felt ashamed, I couldn’t even give it to them. Almost the entire week before I presented, I had become “sick” with anxiety. I felt like I was going to throw up and could barely get out of bed. The week I actually did have to present, I still didn’t want to come to school, but did anyways because I knew I had to do it.

It is deathly quiet in my apartment, just like always. Every night I come home to silence, no one to greet me ‘hello’ or a ‘how was your day’. My father left my family when I was only a baby, and my mother was a bad influence, so my aunt decided to take custody of me and my little sister. Living with my aunt was a blast, my little sister and I always had fun there. Only a couple years of living with her, my aunt and little sister passed away because of a car accident.

What people with anxiety need to know is You have an interesting and different and wonderful way of looking at things, You’re brave. And strong. And determined Anxiety feels like a big barrier, but even with that, you’re able to push through it and do things that feel scary. That takes determination, strength and courage – and you have loads of all of them. People with anxiety are some of the bravest people on the planet because even when things feel

I chose to explore the topic of anxiety disorders. I chose this topic mainly because I suffer from extremely severe anxiety and I am always looking to learn more about it. I also chose this topic because I wanted to gain more knowledge about how to deal/cope with my anxiety; more specifically without using any kind of medication. I have struggled with anxiety since a very young age and the first thing my doctors did was put me on medication, and when that didn’t work they’d try another, and another. Nothing ever really helped because usually the side effects were not worth the little amount they would do to help my anxiety. When I turned 18, I said “no more pills”, and have been trying to deal with my anxiety in natural ways ever since. I will use this new information and treatment options to apply to my own life to help treat my anxiety.