So I don’t like self diagnosing especially with serious things like anxiety but I feel the symptoms have gotten too much within the last few years. I was fine for the last month or so but ever since I got a job, I’ve been losing sleep cause I’ve been more on edge, etc. I don’t want to get diagnosed because it won’t really do anything for me cause I wouldn’t want to take meds cause idk if my insurance covers it and I also don’t want to become reliant and end up doing worse without it in a case where I don’t want to take the meds. However, I have been considering medicine cause I don’t know if I can really deal with this anymore, like over quarantine it’s gotten so bad that going back to in person school will screw me over. Though, I don’t really want to bring this topic up with my parents and have to ask them to go to a doctor for this. Also I don’t think there’s over the counters for anxiety so I don’t know what to do tbh.

Also since I didn’t really specify what anxiety I think I might be dealing with, I think it’s more of social anxiety and a little bit of it that falls under agoraphobia especially after a certain thing happened making me scared of many public places and thinking of things that’ll happen. I also think I mightve had g.a.d that spiraled into the social anxiety. As far as other mental illness, I guess I used to be depressed or wtvr cause (tw) I was very close to committing on several occasions as well as sh but I think I’m better now.