https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/welcome-and-orientation/how-can-i-handle-anxiety-and-work-stress/m-p/400389#M20540 <P>Hello Anna</P> <P>Welcome to the forum. It looks as though you posted your comments before you finished writing them down. Would you like to post in again and complete your story.</P> <P>I am so sorry you have been struggling with anxiety since primary school. That's a long time. Trying to live up to your parents expectations can be very hard and disheartening. I gather you have some siblings, do they feel the same as you?</P> <P>I see you are talking about OCD. Is this, as it were, an official diagnosis or something you feel fits your personality? </P> <P>I would love to continue posting to you but there is not much information. Can you write in again please.</P> <P>Mary</P> Sat, 23 Mar 2019 07:37:10 GMT White_Rose 2019-03-23T07:37:10Z https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/welcome-and-orientation/how-can-i-handle-anxiety-and-work-stress/m-p/400388#M20539 I've had anxiety my who life. It's exhausting. It started in Primary School. Both my parents like to bragg about their children. If I felt I was failing, I felt intense mental pressures that if I did not achieve this, I would be an embarrassment or failure. This is the voice of anxiety and O.C.D. in my head. I'm not o.k. with this thought. Now as an adul Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:13:19 GMT https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/welcome-and-orientation/how-can-i-handle-anxiety-and-work-stress/m-p/400388#M20539 Anna42 2019-03-22T21:13:19Z https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/welcome-and-orientation/how-can-i-handle-anxiety-and-work-stress/m-p/400389#M20540 <P>Hello Anna</P> <P>Welcome to the forum. It looks as though you posted your comments before you finished writing them down. Would you like to post in again and complete your story.</P> <P>I am so sorry you have been struggling with anxiety since primary school. That's a long time. Trying to live up to your parents expectations can be very hard and disheartening. I gather you have some siblings, do they feel the same as you?</P> <P>I see you are talking about OCD. Is this, as it were, an official diagnosis or something you feel fits your personality? </P> <P>I would love to continue posting to you but there is not much information. Can you write in again please.</P> <P>Mary</P> Sat, 23 Mar 2019 07:37:10 GMT https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/welcome-and-orientation/how-can-i-handle-anxiety-and-work-stress/m-p/400389#M20540 White_Rose 2019-03-23T07:37:10Z