I suffer from severe anxiety, panic attacks, severe depression, and agoraphobia. Whenever I tell my mom about it, she says one of the following:

“only you can control it”
“Only you can stop it”
“Just stop feeling that way”
“You’re doing it to yourself”
“No one can help you but you”
“Doctors can’t help you”

It makes me angry because she doesn’t get it. I try to explain that I don’t choose to be this way and try to correct her, but she’ll get angry at me for that. She has no sympathy or compassion.

It’s pure hell living in my mind. I bet my mother couldn’t last a day living with constant panic attacks and fear like I do. I barely slept last night because panic attacks kept me awake.