Browsing Tag 'anxiety'
Picture the scene, if you will: a busy, bustling market in a French city. Locals, tourists, students, elderly, buskers, street artists and everyone in between. A person with anxiety. You can see where this is going can’t you? But actually, you can’t! Because this particular person with anxiety has balls the size of houses right now [...]
A very rough take on the prompt but a miraculous moment in my life where I went to a restaurant alone. Suffering with anxiety makes being alone in any situation difficult, this does not convey the emotions as well as I’d like, but I wanted to put it out there. She took each step tentatively. [...]
I’ve suffered with anxiety for many years now, it’s been so bad in the past I literally couldn’t get out of my front door. Just opening the door to the hall would result in floods of tears, shaking, inability to breathe; a full blown panic attack. Fortunately after a course of CBT and lots of [...]
Yesterday we went for a walk, “the allotment walk” said my parents. I had visions of quaint allotments with shaded paths between them, maybe an orchard or two. Peace and calm and the beauty of nature, thought I, and I suppose if I didn’t have an anxiety disorder that’s what I would have got. But [...]
Brief background: we’re going to Spain for a 3 (nearly 4) month holiday very very soon. I have an anxiety disorder along with other bits and bobs. The fear is often worse than the reality, so they say at least, and so I hope because the fear of our trip to Spain is pretty epic [...]
This post has been on my mind for a couple of weeks now but with one thing and another I’m only getting it out now, but I need to say it. The other week someone accused me of not trying to battle my demons, and damn did that annoy me. Well actually at the time [...]
I don’t think I’m cut out for this whole “life” thing. Everyone else seems to be doing a much better job of it than I am; they have a more active social life than me, they work, they have hobbies and they enjoy it. I, however, am noticing my anxiety getting worse as my social [...]
So what is it with mental health and rules? (Yes, I’m generalising: not all people with MH issues have this specific issue, but it’s my blog and it’s my issue and dammit I’ll write about it how I want.) So seriously, what is with rules? Illogical, impeding, impossible rules. Rules that, if broken, result in [...]
Say no more, huh. And after a fab conversation on twitter this evening, I give you a CHOON!
That’s how long it’s been since I went to uni. Three full weeks. Only one of those was an official week off. I am failing. I am fighting as hard as I possibly can, but I am still failing. There is nothing more they can do, there is nothing more I can do, I just [...]
