The title kinda speaks for itself but I've been talking about this ALL DAY and I've been getting just nods from everyone I want to talk about this with people who understand me because I've been wanting to have an actual conversation like this since FOREVER
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basically ever since I was young all you hear is "it's just anxiety" "I have anxiety I get so anxious over tests" "it's not a big deal" "calm down" ECT like it doesn't have the potential to be life altering of course every single mental illness is a spectrum but people act like the term anxiety only includes GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) it can be so many other thing like paranoia type disorders or obsessive disorders just to name two smaller umbrellas under the big bracket that is anxiety me personally I'm currently diagnosed with GAD but the symptoms I experience are so severe and when the for front of my life isn't depression and it's not completely controlling and destroying my life I have another piece of shit to step in for it.. anxiety and it's so severe if rather be in a depressive episode. Yep. If rather be suicidal and able to hide it then be so outward with my symptoms just because it's downright embarrassing
- uncontrollable anxiety tics and twitches
- "controllable" but difficult to suppress vocal stims/tics (example: simple things like "AGH" or screams that I can't control)
- constant self regulation (rocking back and forth, pull hair, cringing, crying even though I'm not sad, nail biting, grading teeth)
- fast heartbeat
- heavy breathing and/or hyperventilating
- extremely blurred vision that fades in and out
- migranes
- cramps
- severe dissociation
Those are just SOME OF MY SYMPTOMS I could list so many more
Yet it's still "just anxiety".