Realizing the Depth of My Anxiety

say “ yeah thanks i made it myself “

Yes! When diagnosed with anxiety I took it with a grain of salt. I remember thinking like I’ve seen this person and they’re anxious but I’m not like that so it must not be that bad. It took me years to realize how normal but also encompassing mine was. It just didn’t look or feel like what I thought anxiety was growing up. I thought it was mood swings or anger problems for a while until I learned more about it. Same goes for physical issues docs would be like uh well I can’t find anything so it probably anxiety so try to relax and I’d just look at them like they were crazy. Now I’m strongly aware of how much my anxiety effects me physically but for the most part it to me researching and learning more as well as talking to others about their experiences to finally be like oh damn I’m anxious and when I’m anxious this and this gets worse or happens…

My counselor told me the same. I never realized what I was experiencing was anxiety. I labeled it under irritation/slight anger. 🤔 makes me wonder what else I'm misreading about my own feelings. 🤷‍♀️

I get anxious almost all the time when I'm not alone at home 😅 previously I thought I masked it semi okay but I've had a lot of my friends tell me I'm social awkward because of my anxiety. Never realized it was basically constant before that, but nothings changed, just my awareness of it.