I showed signs of anxiety my whole life and got diagnosed at 22 when I ended up having a week long panic attack and could no longer feel my arms or legs. The GP was really blunt with me and told me it’s anxiety and sent me away (I didn’t understand anxiety at the time, I thought I was having some kind of heart failure) 

I’m 25 now and they still won’t help me. I live in the U.K. and I had a mental health assessment where the woman on the phone patronised me and told me “everyone gets anxiety” as if everybody on the planet has anxiety over small things every minute of their life like *anxiety disorder isn’t a real thing or anything*

I’m having other health problems and it’s taking a year and a half to even get one appointment with a specialist, even private care is taking a long time. I broke down and called my GP for help saying I need immediate help and for them to please push for a specialist because I’m having panic attacks every night and I need medication only for them to complain at me for calling after 10am and sent me a text saying I don’t need urgent help and to book a routine appointment which there’s a four week wait for…

They won’t give me medication, they just tell me to meditate and if it’s not working then I’m not meditating right. I’ve tried about five different doctors and nobody will listen, I get treated like it’s all in my head and I’ve hit a point where I’m like “if I intentionally hurt myself will they be forced to help me?”

I feel lost… I’m missing out on so much of my life, I’ve hardly slept in so long, I’ve chipped parts of my back teeth off from grinding, my face is ageing badly from stress, it’s ruining relationships I’m left with no friends… all this because nobody will help me. I’m so lost. I can’t even have a hug right now because I only know a couple of people and they have Covid