Anxiety 101

It has been a while since I wrote my last article. I've been really busy last summer and I haven't got the courage to write anything. So I think it's a good idea to 'come back' with a very important subject for me : anxiety.

For as long as I can remember I've always been very anxious for almost everything. School, family, friends, work, hobbies. I have always felt something deep inside of me, something like concern/fear/apprehension and I've always felt that I'm not enough/not good enough. I won't explain here where this comes from but there is a source.

But with the new school year that begins, with this sense of renewal I wanted to trully know if my feelings were considered 'normal' or if it was dispropotional. I've been diagnosed with anxiety disorder and since then I realised a lot of things. To know that my anxiety and my fear are not based on reality and are too much helps me calm these emotions and undertand that I don't need to think and feel like this.

It's very important to be diagnosed by a health professional (so remember to not stop your analysis at tiktoks and quizz online and go further). Now I can make the connection between many symptoms that I didn't realised were related to the same thing like sleeping issues, breathing difficulties, teeth grinding, panick attacks, apprehension, irritability, startles, heart palpitations, digestive problems, fear of dark, of crowds, of unknown (normal fears in humans, but to a certain extent), et caetera... It's a relief to group these concerns under the same reason.

I'm still at the beginning of my healing journey but my eyes are now wide open at the truth and I feel like I can finally move forward. I tend to speak about this subject a lot to my friends recently because it is so important for me right now but I don't want to bother them too much so maybe if I write about this here it'll help me deal with this topic.

I'm stoping here for today, maybe I'll talk about it again :)

Thank you very much for your time and your attention !

Fetilon~