Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Anxiety, the silent strangler

I just wanted to post a post about anxiety since its such a huge controlling aspect of my life, without my meds for it I would be completely incapable to live a basic life....

the best way to explain anxiety is its like a silent strangler, you can be out, enjoying time with your family and slowly it slips in... you can start to feel numb... and slowly but surely you can't breathe... .you feel paralyzed, you wanna get away from it, but you cant, you cant run from anxiety... your only hope is to breathe slow enough to calm yourself down enough to get a pill or just sit there and fall victim to its ugly little head. And than someone will ask you, why are you anxious?? whats wrong?? heres the part I want everyone to get......

WE DONT ALWAYS KNOW WHY WE'RE ANXIOUS, WE DONT ALWAYS KNOW WHAT CAUSES IT, AND IF WE DID, WOULDN'T WE SURELY AVOID THOSE THINGS LIKE THE PLAGUE?!

Than comes the second stage of anxiety, pure panic, because you dont know whats going on, or how to get away from it, and people start grilling you, you panic, you cant control how you feel, and thats scary.. you're being victimized by this horrible thing called anxiety and most of the time all you can do is sit and wait it out. I want you all to know anxiety disorders are very real, very crippling, so if you see someone going through one the best thing to do in my opinion is ask if theres anything you can get them... and than just let them ride it out... because noones making it better... except maybe some coping skills to lessen it or some medications to lessen it.

ok, thats the best I can explain it, hopefully it offers some insight on things.

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