What we first think when we hear or see the word "anxiety" is many things for every individual; confusion, fear, medication, the illness, the feeling, memories, and for many, what is actually is and why it causes so many people to struggle to live, deal and manage with. "Anxiety" isn't just anxiety; anxiety it's the word used to describe what anxiety illness which branches off that word. To make things more simple, picture anxiety as a tree trump. Now, a tree isn't a tree without those branches that spread out from that trump and those leaves that further more spread out from those branches. If you can picture this, then let me elaborate, anxiety isn't a mental illness, its what the illness that 'branches' from anxiety is; which then is a illness from anxiety. Yes that sounds confusing, even for myself, but hear me out. Anxiety has many different characteristics regarding anxiety related illnesses being; attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and many more that haven't been mentioned or characterised.
Having anxiety is what makes you, you. It's one of those life lessons that not all have to deal with, that come at a different rate of intense for everyone, and that makes that person stronger, smarter and better than if they were to never have had any anxiety related disorder at all. It feels like voices in you're head that you cant hear but you can think, and it tells you how to feel, or how to act or what to say. Yet, it's all lies, tricks, manipulation which anxiety "says," or "feels," Such as overthinking to a point of having a rush of anxiety right through you, where you think of the worst and least possible situation that can happen and tell yourself that its the most likely situation to occur, so you fear, you panic, you get anxiety. However, once those thoughts leave, mainly after you know that what you overthought never happened, you have a sense of relief, and come to the realisation eventually, that it's you're anxiety lying and tricking you. Anybody who has anxiety wouldn't wish what they have on anyone else, because you know the pain, you know that struggle, the struggle of dealing with and fighting something in you're head that no body else can see and it cant be just simply patched up by a ban-aid. Dealing and managing it is a long process, its scary, but always you come out winning and you can only do that by never giving in, and keep on fighting.
