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I had another episode recently, right at work. I had just come out of a meeting where I had to speak in English, a language I am almost native in. Well, due to anxiety raised to alarming heights, that day it seemed to me that I had done a horrible job, and long afterwards I sat and thought obsessively about how badly I had spoken and how I had misspoken, how I didn’t know some word or didn’t know a verb tense, although absolutely no one had noticed, and even if they had, they had not given it any importance.<\/p>\n\n
And the examples could go on and on, but I think it’s enough to outline even just a moment with anxiety.<\/p>\n\n
I see anxiety as a spiral of thoughts that wraps itself around you and squeezes you tighter and tighter until you can barely breathe.<\/h4>\n\n
Most of the time, it turns you against yourself, against your friends, because you live in constant fear, and that fear doesn’t even have a real basis. That’s why you’ll often hear the line “it’s all in your head” if you try to explain it to someone. Sure, it’s heard in connection with many mental disorders because, isn’t it true, “if you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist”!<\/p>\n\n
Nothing could be further from the truth, but you don’t have to convince anyone that what you’re feeling and what’s happening to you is real. What you can do is seek profesional help and get a psychiatric diagnosis. It’s good to know exactly what’s going on in our brain so we can understand it, so we can understand ourselves<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n Although I haven’t received a diagnosis yet, and only have a hunch (my own and my former psychologist’s), I plan to go back to therapy at the first opportunity when I find a therapist who can give me the necessary confidence, because everything is shaky now.<\/p>\n\n I am grateful, however, to be able to talk about my experience here, to be able to talk about what it’s like to live with an anxiety disorder and how it can affect your life down to the smallest detail.<\/p>\n\n Because mental health is just as (or maybe even more!) important as physical health, although it is often ignored or treated superficially by many of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anxiety and I go way back. Probably since childhood. I cannot remember a time when it was not there in one form or another. Sure, some might say, anxiety is something we all face. It is a normal response to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1048],"tags":[447,460,461,465,466,467],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health-stories","tag-anxiety","tag-personal-story","tag-relationships","tag-self-care","tag-stress","tag-therapy"],"yoast_head":"\nI wish that in the near future going to the psychologist will not be so stigmatized and that we can talk about it more openly without attracting all kinds of stares.<\/h4>\n\n