The older I get and the more experiences I have in life, the more I truly believe people who have never suffered from intense anxiety have no concept of just how all consuming it is. I struggle a lot with anxiety wanting to burst out of me, in the form of needing to dissect stressful events over and over, crying, sharing my thoughts generally on why i feel so sad and hopeless etc. But in some cases it's very clear that, the more you try to explain by clarifying the intensity of what you're experiencing - by trying to describe the sheer overwhelming mess of emotion you feel - the worse you're making yourself appear. The more dramatic you appear. The more selfish and self centered. People who can't understand the fear and the panic. People who think you're using it as an excuse.

In situations where you know that suppressing and talking down the extent of your true anxiety is the safest and easiest way to get through a situation, how do you manage that?