Sometimes I feel like I’m broken. I don’t know why my depression exists. It’s just something that’s been there since about middle school. I have a great mother. I have a great grandfather. I have a great father figure. My family is amazing. It has nothing to do with them. That’s always the first thing …
Let’s just be honest here… nothing is more exhausting than arguing with your own brain every day, all day. Every single thought is like a battle within itself. Having anxiety makes you care too much, having depression makes you not care enough. When you have both, it can be nothing short of hell. I may be smiling on …
Waking up past noon becomes commonplace when things seem pointless. I lay in bed for hours and hours after I wake up just looking up at the ceiling or scrolling through social media for the seventh time. Just the thought of getting out of bed seems too much like a chore. It just doesn’t seem …
I’m sorry for what my anxiety makes me do. And I want you to know it’s not me, it’s my anxiety. It’s not who I am fully, it’s just a piece of me. Anxiety makes me talk too fast or not at all. It makes me stay up too late and toss and turn until it’s 3 …
People with anxiety aren’t perfect, but nobody is. When you love someone who has anxiety, you’re loving someone who is in tune with their every emotion. Someone who feels everything with their being and doesn’t apologize for it. When you love someone who has anxiety you are loving someone who is sensitive and empathetic. And they …
For years, I was a barely functioning depressive. I struggled to at least appear like I had myself together, living panic attack to panic attack behind the scenes. When my facade of togetherness would begin to crack and show wear, I would pull away and isolate as I slapped on layers of concrete to hide all my breaking …
Overthinking. It’s the nights you spend not sleeping as mistakes you’ve made in the past act as a plague to your mind. It’s worrying about things that might never happen as you dwell over the things that have. It’s every fear you have that paralyzes you. And as you think more you hold back tears. …
Anxiety makes it seem like I don’t care about the people who matter the most to me, because I’m terrified of coming on too strong. I don’t want to compliment them and have them think I’m weird. I don’t want to invite them over and get turned down. So I stay quiet instead. I let …
1. They over criticize themselves. They truly believe that they aren’t good enough for the person they are dating and are over critical of every choice they make. They constantly beat themselves over mistakes and can’t get a grasp on their own self-worth. 2. They fear having panic attacks. They are always tense, anticipating and waiting …
I don’t reach out to people. I’m terrified of talking on the phone and starting conversations with strangers. I’m even scared of texting certain friends and coming on too strong, of graduating from a concerned friend to an annoying nuisance. So I delete messages. I wait too long to answer back. I don’t let on that I …