Yes, Anxiety Is A Real Thing!
You tell people you’re not too comfortable about hanging out with them. You tell them you’re not okay with open public spaces. You tell them you’d rather stay at home than go out to a carnival/fair. And they think that you think you’re too cool to hang out with them, or that you’re so full of yourself, and even worse, they start disliking you because you avoid their company. But I wish I could make people understand what really goes on in my mind in such times. Are you terrified of certain situations too, or of a lot of things in general? Do unfamiliar situations scare the hell out of you? Well then, hi-5. And that feeling has a name, by the way, anxiety. I wonder how such a random word could define so much about so many of us. So many people think that anxiety is just that little unpleasant feeling you get sometimes. But in reality, that’s just 2% of the actual thing. I’ll tell you what anxiety is really like. Its like being trapped in a box where you can’t breathe, or lik...