Someone close to me told me today that I'm taking my anxiety too heavily and I'm just having normal college stresses. I'm not supposed to create worse problems out of normal life problems because I can't expect to have a perfect life with 0 anxiety. 
I'm not even angry anymore about people's lack of acceptance over my poor mental health. I'm just heartbroken. I have to carry around this emotional weight, like I have been for the past 10 years, and it just feels heavier and heavier the longer I carry it. I'm so tired of carrying it. I really am. I'm working so hard to heal my scars, but this lack of empathy for my struggles is just the worst. I don't share all of the terrible thoughts and feelings I experience from anxiety. I don't share how I get so consumed by anxiety that I can't breathe or sleep or eat or function. I don't blame them for not understanding since I'm more private about my experiences. I blame them for not trying to learn what's going on and jumping to conclusions with a perception of my reality that is so wrong it's debilitating. 
Don't take someone's experiences from solely your perception folks; there might be much worse things occuring in their mind that you can't see.