Hi all, i kind of just felt the need to get this off my chest as in recent weeks i’ve been learning more about myself and my anxiety and realized a huge isolating factor for me when i’m having anxiety is convincing myself that no one can understand what i’m feeling. I get that tons of people experience anxiety, but I would always end up icing myself out and making it worse if i’d try to talk to people or they’d try to talk to me, and in my head i’m thinking things like: you have no idea! you haven’t been through what i’m going through! your job isn’t as challenging as mine! your life isn’t as bad! yada yada. 

The reality is, we all experience feelings on a spectrum and just because the source of our anxiety may differ, the manifestation doesn’t really. We all get panicky, paralyzed, paranoid, we all can relate to that sinking helpless feeling. My friends with a “chill job” experience just as much anxiety as I do in a bad moment. Other people know these feelings and I am in fact, not all alone in mine. Idk why it took me 26 years to finally realize this, but my mind has finally opened up to the fact that i’m just not the only one who feels all these ways at once/to this magnitude. A lot of us are in this together