When you live with an anxiety disorder, any moment can become one that creates a slow-rising panic within you. Life is normal one second and the next, you feel your chest tighten and your heart begin to race. You may begin to hyperfocus on future events and find yourself getting lost in “what-ifs.” To make […]
Catastrophic Thinking: How to Recognize It & Why It Happens
If you’ve ever found yourself worrying endlessly about worst-case scenarios seemingly out of nowhere, you’re not alone. Do any of the following sound familiar? “I don’t know if I did well on that test… I’m never going to graduate from college, how will I get a job?” “I made a small mistake at work, and […]
My Journey from Anxiety to Resilient
FROM ANXIETY… I was an anxious child, from being afraid of the dark, to the constant fear of my parents dying, to being ashamed of walking across a room to sharpen my pencil in school. That anxiety became social anxiety during my teen years (although I wouldn’t know this for another 20 years). And college […]
